My story flows in more than one direction
Nov 11, 2024

My screenplay story flows in more than one direction because its characters do. In it, a young woman loses her job when the factory she works at shuts down on very little notice and she leaves home for parts unknown…

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Mina packs up
Nov 11, 2024

The pain at the end of their first year of marriage shredded Mina's memory and her mind pieced it back together like a dective might reconstruct shredded evidence. Except in Mina's case the reconstruction was a mirage of the reality.…

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Wade 3.1
Nov 11, 2024

(Note: I'm using this as a way to move forward in the novel I'm working on. This is Wade Jorgensen's 3rd scene.) “Don’t be skimping on that concrete now,” my dad said, shouting to be heard over whatever was rattling…

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Morris (part 1)
Nov 11, 2024

Shortly after she gave birth to her third child, a son, Basia died after uttering her very last words: “at last”. She had pled, and her husband Shmuel agreed, that after they had a boy, hopefully a healthy one (kine…

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Relationship
Nov 11, 2024

Somewhere back in time, decades ago..... "Hi! Good morning", I said to Paul as I swung open the door of the black and white Chevy Caprice. 'You did say 8:00, right/ Did I hear the time wrong?" I laughed a…

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Nov 11, 2024

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the river
Nov 11, 2024

with teh heel of his boot, ground out sand and kicked it hard into the stream. The misquotes bit his neck and black ants bit his arm that lay on top of their ant hill. He was asleep for at…

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Rain
Nov 11, 2024

I love the sound of the rain. So soft, so soothing. I can see the rain from the window I'm facing as I write, a gentle but steady rain that made me want to sit down to write instead of…

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Story
Nov 11, 2024

Whose story flows in only one direction? We start out unformed, wobbly in who we are. We take a path, wanting to grow up to be an artist, a firefighter, a marine biologist, an influencer (today). We hold onto that…

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You can’t pick a fight with reality
Nov 08, 2024

My whole life I’ve fought every daunting reality life threw my way. I didn’t roll over and sit up at the age I should have, so my mother took me to the pediatrician – who knew everyone in our small…

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An apology
Nov 08, 2024

Hi Stephanie. I did intend to write this week, but between election anxiety and my stress over the outcome, I found I couldn't put anything down on paper. If you did write, I would be very happy to look at…

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