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Prompt 412
"Did you see that?!" He was nearly jumping out of his skin with undisguised enthusiasm ( Read more... ) -
Prompt 414
Reaching into the bag of Life's Options, she decided to take her chance. She probed, prodded, searched with her fingertips 'til she found one that felt Just Right and pulled it with trepidation ( Read more... ) -
Prompt A Day: Kicked out
Kicked out of her own apartment, no place to go and no one to turn to, she found herself alone in the world. The drugs had fried half of her brain cells and the booze had taken care of the few survivors. She stashed some clothes behind the La Hacienda's dumpster and begged for money during the day. At night, she bought what little booze she could ( Read more... ) -
Prompt A Day: What he didn't know
What he didn't know was that she had found the stash of old love letters hidden behind his bureau drawer. He didn't know how long she had poured through them, tears sliding down her face as she read each and every word they contained. And when she finished with the stack, she started all over again ( Read more... ) -
Prompt A Day: I Can't Hear You
I can't hear you as the rain drums softly on the windowpane and my thoughts scatter like so many thousand raindrops. Your face framed in the ethereal glow of a soft-lighted table lamp, the hair gleaming with hundreds of tiny crystal-beaded droplets from the storm outside ( Read more... ) -
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You're in for an adventure of a lifetime!Such was the statement made by the brazenly bright yellow and green half-ripped poster stapled to a telephone pole outside the Lighthouse Tavern only one week ago ( Read more... ) -
Unfinished short story
She woke this morning, feeling completely out of sorts ( Read more... ) -
Flight of the Phoenix
She spread her wings and flew today, waiting there, silence upon her lips. Yes, those very lips that had just so recently decried the bitter injustice of her life, the insanity of all those tasks she'd been given ( Read more... ) -
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After countless nights and endless broken dreams, she had finally mustered up the strength to do what she knew was needing to be done ( Read more... ) -
Broken Dreams
I was there, the day the world ended like so many softly fallen magnolia petals that grace the ground after an early frost ( Read more... )