Author Archives: susan

022/100 aka 162/365

Posted on June 11, 2011 by susan

EVAPORATION Word Count: 350 She cried and cried and cried. She wondered if it would kill her, her tears bleeding out unstopped. If she cried out all the moisture in her body, left shrunken and skeletal like a maple leaf … Continue reading →

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021/100 aka 161/365

Posted on June 10, 2011 by susan

THE BOOK Word Count: 590 He found the book one day when he was looking for a hammer. It held up the broken leg of the workbench where his father’s father’s tools were arranged on hooks on a pegboard on … Continue reading →

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020/100 aka 160/365

Posted on June 9, 2011 by susan

SPEAKING IN TONGUES Word Count: 385 What is she saying? The girl who is taking my money and giving me change. Yes, yes, Thank you and have a nice day, but there’s something else too, when we listen with our … Continue reading →

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019/100 aka 159/365

Posted on June 9, 2011 by susan

PIECES Word Count: 365 There was the single hair she’d brushed off her shoulder in the hotel room in Delhi and hadn’t given it a second’s thought until now. Arielle stared at the broken finger nail, played with it, putting … Continue reading →

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018/100 aka 158/365

Posted on June 7, 2011 by susan

DECISIONS, DECISIONS Word Count: 466 He packed his clothes, whatever he would need for a few days, and loaded up the car with a tent, a blanket, a blow-up mattress and their hibachi. He filled the car up with gas … Continue reading →

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017/100 aka 157/365

Posted on June 6, 2011 by susan

I AM A SHINING STAR Word Count: 319 I can bend the willow trees and stir the oaks. I can even make it rain. I can lead all the cats in town into the river with a song but of … Continue reading →

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016/100 aka 156/365

Posted on June 5, 2011 by susan

RIVER RISING Word Count: 347 So the river’s comin’. Get out, take your things, they tell us. Ain’t matter none to me. Start fresh all over again. Like we done before and before that. “Mama, can I take Hildy?” “Best … Continue reading →

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015/100 aka 155/365

Posted on June 4, 2011 by susan

THE GIRL WHO LIVED INSIDE A POEM Word Count: 327 She had always had a tendency towards drama so no one was surprised when she hid herself within a poem and would not come out. She crawled into the second … Continue reading →

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014/100 aka 154/365

Posted on June 3, 2011 by susan

SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY Word Count: 356 Somewhere in the city was the man who Delphinium would sleep with and eventually marry. Every day she squiggled out of a bed too large for one–it took up the whole room–and crabstepped … Continue reading →

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013/100 aka 153/365

Posted on June 2, 2011 by susan

EYE CONTACT Word Count: 242 He was coming one way; I, the other. I’d crossed a bridge and slowed to a halt at the four-way stop. He roared up about the same time and as drivers always do, we locked … Continue reading →

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