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The Parking Lot Seniority List by
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Prompted By Parking

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The Parking Lot Seniority List For many years until I retired I worked as the librarian at Jane Addams,   a small,  inner-city vocational high school in the infamous south Bronx.   True,  the neighborhood was sketchy,   and the local bank where many of us cashed our monthly paychecks was robbed a couple of…
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Auld Lang Syne by
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(359 Stories)

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Where to begin? MyRetrospect.com has been a huge part of my life since the autumn of 2015. Patti and John Zussman, dear friends since high school, began discussing their idea with me for a baby-boomer community of writers who would share their memories and thoughts  by writing stories to prompts provided by the Zussmans. They…
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Lost in Translucence (a Patois) by
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(40 Stories)

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...as the ring transitioned from the world of the real and visible to the underwater world of Neptune and Ariel and Moby Dick...
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Wild Things We Are by
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(6 Stories)

Prompted By Banned Books

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"I had a stormy rant ready, but...."
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Too Old for SNL Now by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By Comedy

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I guess a show that has been on the air for 49 years has to evolve, and each generation has its own concept of what is funny.
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Savoy Truffle by
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(302 Stories)

Prompted By Comfort Food

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Best of all is dark chocolate, the darker the better. When I am in need of comfort, that's where I go.
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Jac-rat by
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(11 Stories)

Prompted By That Night

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Dashed hopes for a sexual threesome one night in 1970, and what rats we men are.
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Cheap Lodgings by
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(298 Stories)

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Of all of the cheap places we stayed when my husband and I took an eight-week trip to Europe and Israel, Victor Mattace’s pensione was the worst.
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The Edge of Aging by
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(30 Stories)

Prompted By Those We Miss

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I keep stumbling over The edge of aging This wrinkled hand This creaking hinge This blank spot In the file cabinet That held the treasures And torments of a life A story That is still unfolding With a few missing Pieces   But relentless ticking And the sounding chimes Of a heedless clock A blur…
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Mrs. Madison by
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(24 Stories)

Prompted By My First Paycheck

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When I was five years old, my grandmother got me a Saturday job with her neighbor, Mrs. Madison. My job was to help collect eggs and feed the chickens. I scattered grain and filled the water cans. I didn’t collect eggs from any hens that pecked at my hands. I did carry the basket, but only…
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