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Final Projects...

fiction "Who can tell me the most important part of your final project?" Nervous glances passed all around the room. Nobody wanted to be first. "Don't even bother raising hands, just shout out what you think. I'll make a list..." Once the

Every Family Has One...

fiction "Who is this?" Lily pointed at a picture of her great grandmother laughing with another woman. "That is your Great Aunt Bets. Grandma Gloria's younger sister." Her mother answered. "They look alike. But..." "But?" "I don't

Rehab Department...

fiction "Now are you sure you want to do this? First off, the process can be extremely painful and results are not guaranteed. In fact we've sent a few through the rehab process who came out worse on the other side." "Yes, I think the

Silver Crown

fiction poetry It sits on top of my head My silver crown Woven from every heartache and fear The worries of not being enough Not being good enough Not wife, not mother, not worker Every fever that wasn't mine Every stitch, every broken bone Every worry that started

Ah Spring...

fiction poetry (ish) (with apologies to the original authors of really lovely work) I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a... A...a....AHCHOO sniff What's in a name? That which we call a rose would By any other name still...sm..sm..sm.

There Once Was...

fiction poetry There once was a woman from Hillsboro She did her own research and was quite thorough And what she discovered, She might never recover Most people are as dumb as a burro (present company excluded, of course) There once was a woman from New Mexico When her husband

Haiku You...

fiction poetry I missed haiku day Yesterday should have been it But today will do Haiku has strict rules I only follow the count Rules are for others Bombs drop from the sky Drones are flying overhead Peace through war? Insane. The mood is not good The world spinning off

Better Life

fiction poetry I was promised a better life If I did what they told me If I wore the right clothes If I sang the right songs If I said the right things I was promised a better life If I followed their rules If I looked the other way

Lost In Space...

fiction poetry I watched the sunrise this morning There are currently 14 people in space. Ten orbiting the Earth. Four orbiting the Moon. Fourteen people who have escaped the pull of gravity The relentless tug of the world around them. They will come back changed. Molecular changes. One twin in

Post Choice Society...

fiction Being here wasn't her choice. When she reflected on her life that seemed to be a repeating theme. Getting caught in actions, jobs, relationships, that didn't seem to have been her choice. They just happened. She was part of the generation that was sandwiched in-between

Viral...

fiction "I can't believe they haven't pulled this down." "They have. They keep pulling it down and it keeps getting reposted." "Well the internet is forever. Too many people have copies so they can repost." "No, dude, THEY are

Memories...

fiction Digital Recording of Zoom Capstone Presentation Xander Davies Class of 2020 Xander's view is of many small windows showing classmates and instructors. The chat window to the side is filled with supportive messages from classmates. "Hello, class of 2020. This is not how I had imagined

Ghosted...

fiction She thought being a ghost would be more fun. When she was alive she used to read stories about hauntings and thought the ghosts must be having a great time. A chance to torment the people that did you wrong while you were alive. A chance to be a

Never Too Late...

fiction "That's it? That's what you want to go back and change?" "Yeah. I mean, you set the boundaries pretty tight. I can't change anything that I wasn't directly involved with, so no changing anything with Baby Hitler as

Flights of Fancy...

fiction She wasn't superstitious by nature. She prided herself on being logical in all matters. She didn't read horoscopes. She didn't knock wood or throw salt or spit three times when someone mentioned the devil. She didn't pray to an all knowing

True Love...

fiction "...I have no idea what she saw in him." "Right? Like how did she look at him and think, yeah, that's it!" "What are you two ladies talking about?" Molly and Lauren both jumped a little at the sound of their

Book Shelves...

fiction She walked past the shelves trailing a finger along the spines of the books she had spent years curating. All of the different colors and textures of the covers. Some thick enough to rival any work of King's and some barely a pamphlet. There were more than

A New World...

fiction She was washing dishes from breakfast when she heard the knocking. "Mrs. Olivec! Mrs. Olivec! I've got your delivery!" She dried her hands and went to answer the front door. "Thanks, Bethune, you could have just left it on the porch you know."

Calming the Storm...

fiction His first memory was of his mother. Which wasn't all that unusual. A lot of people had a first memory that was tied to a parent. But his first memory was of his mother controlling a storm. She was in the yard and her hair was flying.

Sunday Shopping

fiction She hadn't had much use for religion in her previous life. She thought it was all pretty useless at best and destructive at worse. But now? Now she had a real appreciation for the Fellowship of the Blessed Eye. The red spray painted eye on the wall

Storms...

fiction Every city has the storm, the one everyone talks about years later. The one that somehow everyone got caught in even though that's impossible. Afterall some people had to have been at home that day right? When she was growing up it was the windstorm where they

I Believe...

fiction I Believe and I Believe Too were written December 13, 2013. I Believe was originally a stand alone piece but almost as soon as I published it the idea for I Believe Too came out. And then (as some of you might remember) it actually blossomed into a multipart,

Christmas Stories

fiction Since I reposted the Krampus piece earlier this month I figured I'd repost this companion piece as well. Gotta give the Fat Man his due! Christmas Stories "I don't normally do interviews." "I understand. I really appreciate that you are making an

Krampusnacht...

fiction This is another repost from the other blog. It's from last year, so not as old. It's also a little deeper cut than the other one. I love my deep cut characters. At the end of this first story is another one. One that I

Good Old Days

fiction This was originally posted on my old blog in December of 2016. It was the Krampus parade this weekend so it seemed like a good time to repost it here. Christmas is all about rewatching and rereading right? Krampus was bored. He leaned back on his throne and cleaned