There is a common saying in New England and East Tennessee: If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute. That serves as a good analogy for this week, which started with an old story lying in the graveyard and ended with a new story winning a contest. Offer anyone in New England or East [...]
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The Story Graveyard
Posted in Original Fiction, Uncategorized on January 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The crickets were chirping after last week’s post, so I’m sending it to the story graveyard. This graveyard is not a sad place, though; it’s a release. I have files upon files of unfinished stories — some are just a title and one is 53,000 words — and I feel guilty that I can’t spend [...]
Woodpeckers Don’t Get Headaches
Posted in Original Fiction on January 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
For years, I haven’t known what to do with this scrap of a story that I jotted down after a dream one night. So I’m posting it here and opening the floor to any and all ideas about who and what this story is about! ************************************** Where were you last night? I asked myself the [...]
Orphans of Destiny
Posted in Original Fiction, Science & Spirituality on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
He grew up on stories of rescued children — of Moses, who, in being rescued became the savior of a civilization, and of Jesus, who was adopted by a father who loved him like his own. “You are meant for great things”, the nuns had said. “Saved children have a special destiny. But for now, [...]
A Shadow Dog’s Promise
Posted in Original Fiction, Science & Spirituality on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight would be the final test. A perfect night of distractions. Gretchen stirred her batch of special cookies, sure to tempt the town’s children who were gathering on the dock. Shadow balanced on his hind legs with his great, black paws on the cabin windowsill as he sniffed at the darkening dusk. Gretchen had [...]
Pieces of Life: A fictional sketch of Jaycee and Donnie Raye
Posted in Original Fiction on July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was pretty sure my dad wasn’t thrilled when I started dating Donnie Raye in the 11th grade – 21-year-old Donnie Raye. But Dad didn’t say so outright; he was big on freedom of choice. He used to tell me that we have to be free to choose how we spend our time, because [...]
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