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Talespinning by Susan Gibb is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
052/100 aka 192/365
OF PRISONS Word Count: 345 Outside is a prison of the ash walls of the night. The air is thick with the day’s troubles. The screams of the people as the mornings have punched them with fists of reality, as … Continue reading
051/100 aka 191/365
THE BIKER Word Count: 305 He pulled out behind me and I saw him in the rear view mirror. An older guy, handlebar mustache, black sleeveless shirt, golden arms holding steady on a Harley hog. I was doing 55 in … Continue reading
050/100 aka 190/365
DREAMS AND DAYS Word Count: 466 There is a little boy who goes to sleep scared every night. He has heard that dreams can become real. He is afraid that the monsters in his dreams, the one that flies with … Continue reading
049/100 aka 189/365
THE PLANE Word Count: 419 I saw a two-inch plane today; most of those that cut across my sky are quarter-inchers. And because I know he won’t believe me, because he laughs, I reach up and pluck it from … Continue reading
048/100 aka 188/365
YELLOW SKY Word Count: 163 I stood beneath a yellow sky, the silhouettes of branches leafed into the canvas swiped with color. I flew within the feathered swirls, felt the brush of birches as I sailed. Only in my mind. … Continue reading
047/100 aka 187/365
OF LOVE AND TIME Word Count: 340 It suddenly was just there, a baby Japanese red maple fighting for space in the tangle of wild blueberries and weeds in the hedgerow. I fell to my knees, fingering the delicate leaves … Continue reading
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046/100 aka 186/365
EQUALITY Word Count: 334 Just watched the hummingbird dance his crescent of display for a female sitting politely in the bush. He doesn’t know she’s on the pill. I wink at her and she winks back. A note of understanding. … Continue reading
045/100 aka 185/365
FOR HONOR AND GLORY Word Count: 477 Budget cuts had the town divided on holding the Independence Day Parade and Grand Fireworks Display. The old timers fought for tradition. They and the excited young people won out. Carmel Withers was … Continue reading
044/100 aka 184/365
MEASURES Word Count: 212 There is nothing that goes by me unnoticed. It’s the details, the pinpricks that can be seen by the blind, the footprints of the ants that have gone about their daily work, that’s where life fully … Continue reading
043/100 aka 183/365
THE FACE Word Count: 362 It was Saturday and if it didn’t come in the mail that day then he’d have to wait until Monday. The possibility nearly made him cry. He ran out and checked the front porch every … Continue reading