Category Archives: Writing Work

Kitchen Cupboards

Posted on July 2, 2019 by

The best way to cut the woman down to size would be to flirt with her husband but I didn’t want to do that. Two wrongs didn’t make a right. Or at least that’s how I was consoling myself.  With … Continue reading →

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Jimsy and the Shoelaces

Posted on May 1, 2019 by

As she stopped to catch her breath, she looked back to see if the cat was still following her. There were cat-missing posters on several street corners on the way she walked to the park, but this was a different … Continue reading →

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A Fine Juncture

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

She had to find the necklace, before the guards came into the room. She knew her mother had hidden it somewhere, trying to be clever, but wanting it close to where her mother spent the majority of her days.  There … Continue reading →

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Breakfast with Lou Ann

Posted on April 23, 2019 by

  He was older than she’d thought he would be when she had glanced at the photo of him in the newspaper. In person there were more gray hairs at his temples and some grizzling along his jawline which was … Continue reading →

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The Last Train

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

She had missed the last train and there was only one person she could see on the opposite train platform, walking briskly towards the station after a train going the other direction had stopped and started again. She was now … Continue reading →

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Keeping the Faith

Posted on February 26, 2019 by

He had kept their mother alive in their thoughts. Too alive, perhaps.  Her favorite chair still had her half finished embroidery project draped across the seat so they couldn’t sit in it. Her shoes were still neatly lined up by … Continue reading →

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The Loop

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

  To his horror, he realized he’d been this way before, but it had been a dream then, and it was very very real now, as the road curved to the right and then to the left.  He slowed his … Continue reading →

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