Thursday, August 18, 2016

The Mixed-up Ballerina

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Saturday morning, 6 a.m. My alarm is blaring on my nightstand and I'd love to turn it off and sleep a few more hours. I'm too exci...
Sunday, August 14, 2016

The Box

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Image courtesy of nuttakit at FreeDigitalPhotos.net "It's time," she thought to herself. The suitcase had been sitting in ...
Sunday, August 7, 2016

Larry, part 1

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(Today's prompt found here ) There were 17 cats living in Larry’s basement. When we arrived at his house for dinner, I was not ...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Polly, part 3

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She gripped the rim of the porcelain sink and tried to steady her hands. "One last time," she whispered to herself. "One. Las...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Cooper

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" She smelled amazing, like cinnamon. Man, I wish I'd remembered I was allergic to cinnamon . Might have been a warning sign to m...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Jill

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"Jill, we have a crisis!" I hear Annie, my assistant editor, call out from her office next to mine. " We can't have a...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Aggie

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She showed up at my door soaking wet, bruised, and covered in glitter . I of course burst out laughing. As she stood there, dripping and spa...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

Polly, part 2

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She wasn't supposed to be here . She was supposed to be happily married still. She never expected to wake up one day and realize her hu...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Polly

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Polly carefully placed the cardboard box on the small table. " So this is it. This is home for the next however long." She look...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

5 ways to win my heart (not that it's available)

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Prompts found here My heart was spoken for long ago (this fall will be our 19th anniversary!) but this was the first prompt in the nifty l...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

What do we have wrong?

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I'm skipping ahead on the list today. So many seemed so "meh" to me and this one really stood out. "What popular notion...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

The future was wide open

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(I can hear that song line in my head but can't remember what song it's from) Back to the 30 day writing prompts ... oops. What ...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Feels like Flashback Friday

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So I'm registered for Nanowrimo , and volunteering with Girl Scouts so my daughter can participate. What year is it again? Five years ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Stop defending them.

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I was five the first time it happened to me. The same age as my youngest daughter.  I was with my parents at someone's house, family fri...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Happiness

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Today's prompt asks what five things make me happy right now. I like thinking of happy things! 1. When our girls are snuggled up toge...