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View ArticleCrafting His Heart (100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups)
With what was at hand, Shay pieced together his heart. “I brought her into this world. I helped her depart. She’s a part of me…can’t just write her off, a few words said. Let me be,” he’d say to all...
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“Did you hear the whistle of the ghost train? Did you feel the rumble from the wheels, metal screaming, the ground shake? Jim, did you? Jim, open your eyes. Please.” The boys lay in the underbelly of...
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View ArticleOne Lovely Blog Award…Yes, It Is Too
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In Memory1926-2012 My mother passed away on October 14th, 2012. One major reason I haven’t been writing, or that my meager attempts have been sombre. My father died on October 15th, 1999, which has...
View ArticlePapers of Pain
Amidst the debris of clutter, among the years of things piled upon, chaotic shoving in of spaces, of things of little to no importance due to the distance of time, papers of pain were uncovered. A...
View ArticleChromatic Labyrinth
Carlo, Prince and Count, imagined his wife in bed with another man. Not just any man, but his friend, the Duke of Andria. Carlo noticed the Duke’s eyes always found the figure of Donna Maria more than...
View ArticleThis Is Not My…: The Abysmal Dollhouse (#AtoZ Blog Challenge)
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View ArticleVoices of the Moirai: The Abysmal Dollhouse (#AtoZ Blog Challenge)
** New Readers to this challenge: This is a serialized, continuous work. Please start with the first piece, Abysmally Yours. The AtoZ Blog Challenge began April 1st; ends April 30th. Thank you. Voices...
View ArticleYowling, It Came: The Abysmal Dollhouse (#AtoZ Blog Challenge)
** New Readers to this challenge: This is a serialized, continuous work. Please start with the first piece, Abysmally Yours. The AtoZ Blog Challenge began April 1st; ends April 30th. Thank you....
View ArticleEpilogue: Zephyr, A Caress: The Abysmal Dollhouse (AtoZ Blog Challenge)
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View ArticleReflections of the 2018 #AtoZ Blog Challenge: The Abysmal Dollhouse
For all the information you could ever want about the AtoZ Blog Challenge, Click: Blogging From A to Z Challenge. This was my fifth AtoZ Blog Challenge: 2018: The Abysmal Dollhouse (Serial...
View ArticlePhilomel, with Melody: #Friday Fictioneers, A Different Take
PHOTO PROMPT submitted by Courtney Wright. © Photographer prefers to remain anonymous. Philomel, with Melody “Will you look at this? Look at these boots! How darest he leave us a pair in such...
View ArticleWaiting On My Man: #FridayFictioneers
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Waiting On My Man Milling, milling, milling around. That’s all they do, day after day after day. They pass me by while doing all those annoying things they do: ignore the...
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PHOTO PROMPT © Carla Bicomong Kelly’s Viking Funeral Mewing 'oer the landscape, Upon a boat of flames, Felines of the land lamented Mighty Kelly has passed on. For sixteen years she hunted For sixteen...
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