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Talespinning by Susan Gibb is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at susangibb.net.
Category Archives: 100 Days 2011
071/100 aka 211/365
PIECES Word Count: 250 I found one in the pocket of your denim shirt. The one you used to wear on Saturdays, flung on over just your tee shirt, relaxing on the porch. Writing sometimes, reading a book sometimes. Sometimes … Continue reading
070/100 aka 210/365
CLOUDS Word Count: 285 Puffs of clouds animate the blue blue sky. There is a bear chasing a ball, or maybe it’s a witch’s head. They spread as they drift towards me overhead. A mass becomes the four furies and … Continue reading
069/100 aka 209/365
GOLDEN EARRINGS Word Count: 346 I have at least one out of every pair of earrings I’ve ever owned since my ears were pierced at age ten and that includes the cheap one I hid in the bed of a … Continue reading
068/100 aka 208/365
FREEWRITING FOOD Word Count: 214 Sitting outside eating a bowl of kidneys watching the young twin deer I’ve seen five times today and I look up at the clouds and see Norm Peterson. Gotta say that I’d’ve preferred Magnum, P.I … Continue reading
67/100 aka 207/365
THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS Word Count: 360 The little black dress was bought for her first college dance. Mini-skirt short, rolling into and over the lush curves of her hips. Seductively low at the neck and thin little cap sleeves. … Continue reading
066/100 aka 206/365
QUIET Word Count: 314 Damn but it’s quiet and you’ve barely gone up the road to the corner. Why is it so quiet? I’ve been alone in our house before. You’ve kissed me goodbye and walked out the door hundreds … Continue reading
065/100 aka 205/365
PERSPECTIVE OF COLOR Word Count: 325 They could have been friends, the lady who liked blue and the one whose favorite color was yellow. They had a lot in common, a husband, two children, a love of gardening and a … Continue reading
064/100 aka 204/365
EYES Word Count: 82 With eyes like dinnerplate dahlias, years of all ever seen being petaled in layers, we find ourselves unable to close them. To rest. Eyes dull as moons. Craters of hurt in the pupils, rings of time … Continue reading
063/100 aka 203/365
SOMEWHERE SOMETIME (for John, with love) Word Count: 272 Today we thought we had lost you forever and our skin burned with tears, our eyes split open with pain. Then we looked closer and deeper, farther behind and ahead. Somewhere … Continue reading
062/100 aka 202/365
RECOGNITION Word Count: 327 It doesn’t look like you and yet it does. I can’t be sure. It’s been a few years. The way you’re strutting to the table, your hand just lightly at her back, steering her direction, cutting … Continue reading