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April 30, 2009 08:38 AM EDT --
Link to a great version of "Stand By Me"
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June 06, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
Small snips
of gold hair fall.
Lilac blossom clenched tight.
Redwing blackbird trills a defense.
Clock ticks.
Written as a Cinquain.
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April 16, 2008 11:34 PM EDT --
This is not something I would normally post. But I received this tonight from a friend involved in agility and am crying my eyes out.
This is a rare glimpse at the human spirit. The woman . . .
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April 16, 2008 10:32 AM EDT --
Written for the group 100 Word Stories, using photo attached for prompt.
"He called his brother Steve from a place called Windom at 11:00 this morning. He didn't have his wallet, so you . . .
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April 06, 2008 09:18 AM EDT --
For the Group "100 Word Stories" . Week nine prompt: The story should bring out a character's fear for the number eight AND the reason for the fear should also . . .
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March 30, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
For the group, 100 Word Stories using the prompt: "Write a short scene in which one character reduces another to uncontrollable sobs without touching him or speaking."
Rescued . . .
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March 19, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
Yesterday snow, today slush, tomorrow spring.
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March 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
100 Word Story using Super Power, Alliteration and Oxymoron (in bold)
The doorknob rattled as I entered the kitchen. A woman, looking like the wife of a wealthy professor , was stirring . . .
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March 16, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
100 Word Story using Super Power, Alliteration and Oxymoron (in bold)
"Out"
Two shiny black eyes and twitching black nose, my first close-up visual of the day.
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March 10, 2008 12:12 PM EDT --
Donkey, putt-putt, bulging bus and floating wings brought her to a place unpronounceable. The stones used to divine her future bounced thousands of miles north.
She learned to drive and assembled . . .
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March 02, 2008 11:08 AM EST --
"There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. It was one of those evenings."
Lois flipped on the headlights as the road . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:16 AM EST --
Emails marked !!!!! were coming in faster than I could read them. Rick the Prick had asked if I could take on a rush project. After I agree, he growled, "You won't have copy until noon on . . .
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February 19, 2008 01:08 PM EST --
Thin ice
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February 18, 2008 01:13 PM EST --
Who Could It Be?
Pulling my coat from the tightly packed row of mourners black I turned to see Mona. I hadn't seen her for 30 years.
"Hi, we didn't get to visit".
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February 17, 2008 01:18 AM EST --
Last week I read Edward Nudelman's great article on Building Potential Energy in Poems.
In it he included Wallace Stevens Poem, The Snow Man...which I had never read before. I immediately thought . . .
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January 31, 2008 10:37 PM EST --
I think the worst of the cold is over for this winter. Yesterday's low of -15 had some redeeming value...I have these photo's as a result.
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June 24, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
A habit of 12 years...glancing out the cabin screen door to check that Nick is still sitting on the bottom step. If he is not there, he has followed a chipmunk to the woodshed or is on the neighbors porch . . .
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June 06, 2007 08:52 PM EDT --
I thought I had published this but had only saved it as a draft. Here it is 7 months later.
Two months have passed since my Sheltie, Nick passed away. Two REALLY hard months. Lots of people . . .
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May 08, 2007 01:53 AM EDT --
I had a nice walk looking for morels and taking photos. When I got home and downloaded the photos I had taken.... the one of the one morel I found was out of focus. That led me to playing with the rest . . .
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May 05, 2007 01:32 PM EDT --
While on a walk looking for morels I passed this area with sumac, wild plum(?) and aspen. I loved the soft layered look of the trees...but added the bottom branch in photoshop when I got home...then started . . .
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