May 24, 2025

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Tea Time
May 23, 2025

What does this even mean? Scientists say that time is subjective. How we measure it depends on agreement. Then there's what we don't know, which sometime in the future may rear it's head, gobble up everything we think we know…

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Queenie (2)
May 23, 2025

Queenie We were told that the dog’s name was “Beauty”. That was a lie. When we looked at her papers it was clear that her name was: “Queenie”. She was a Harlequin Great Dane, a huge, slender, majestic beast of…

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May 23, 2025

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True Artichoke story
May 23, 2025

One time, 1982 I believe, spurred on by my love of money and the vegetable itself, i accepted an audition for a McDonald’s commercial TO BE SEEN FOR THE PART OF AN ARTICHOKE. …yes, an artichoke! Because McDonalds was thinking…

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The True Time
May 23, 2025

is when you enlist the help of friends when you don't want to get out of bed anymore, given that your husband racked up your credit card bill and left town with that witch from the forest whom you were…

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Queenie
May 22, 2025

We were told that the dog’s name was “Beauty”. Even that was a lie. When we looked at her papers it was clear that her name was: “Queenie”. She was a Great Dane Dalmation, a huge, slender, majestic beast of…

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Now and Always
May 22, 2025

What nourishes us as writers? My immediate answer is : sharing what we write with others, so they recognize the person who wrote it, or is writing it, as being alive and present in the world. In other words, what…

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Where was teh beauty?
May 22, 2025

I pulled into my parking space and told my mother, "We're here!" In a deadened, disappointed tone that I hadn’t heard since I was thirteen years old, she responded, "We're where." I suddenly saw the moment through her eyes –…

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May 22, 2025

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The Drift
May 22, 2025

[Fiction] She drifts. That's what it feels like in the afternoons, after the chemical feeling wears off, as if she's been injected with a substance meant to keep her on edge. But she hasn't taken anything. How can she, when…

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The infinity of silent spaces.
May 21, 2025

The small assembly hall at Friedrich Wilhelm University rang with applause. Families and friends were seated in rows of before the balcony. The graduating students faced the auditorium looking out toward the crowd of glowing faces. The majority of the…

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