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364/365 – THE BOOK
Word Count: 625 I saw it up ahead in the road that ran by the river, a fluttering, half-alive thing that I guessed had been nicked by a car. A squirrel, a possum, a cat–but no, as I saw it … Continue reading
362/365 – TO PLAN AHEAD WITH A CERTAIN FRUGAL NATURE
Word Count: 376 Looking back, she thought that she could stickpin her annoyance to the first argument about the shingles for the house. He thought they should go for the 20-year shingles, meaning those guaranteed for 20 years. The 30-year … Continue reading
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361/365 – BALLERINA LIGHT
Word Count: 406 She saw it as a dancing pinpoint of light, just out of the corner of her eye. It bowed and swirled and spun as if it were a ballerina with a candle lit to flit across a … Continue reading
360/365 – IT COMES A-CREEPING
Word Count: 473 It wouldn’t seem like much to anyone else; in fact, her own friends simply laughed at her and called it old timer’s disease. And it was. Beneath the jokes and her own denials, it was. Mary Anne … Continue reading
359/365 – UNHOLY CHRISTMAS
Word Count: 315 It wasn’t snowing. It should be snowing on Christmas Eve. Anja didn’t figure in that snow in Alabama was unlikely, all she was hoping for was a Christmas like she had as a child. She needed that. … Continue reading
357/365 – THE CONSTANT MAN
Word Count: 486 He was a strange little man. Nobody knew who he was but everyone knew him. If you believed the talk, he’d been around forever. The kids knew him, their parents and grandparents remembered him when they were … Continue reading
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357/365 JUST ABOUT NORMAL
Word Count: 389 They’ll be sorry, she thinks, as a thousand children before her have said. They should have listened. They should have noticed. But now it’ll be too late. Jen is fifteen years old. She is pretty in an … Continue reading
350/365 – OF LUCK AND CHOICES
Word Count: 585 It was just out of reach, the stone that would be my salvation. I had two very similar to it at home but I needed a third. Two were sufficient to get me just about any guy … Continue reading
347/365 – TIMING
Word Count: 442 Here’s the thing, life has two settings: “slow” and “there’s just no way I can keep up.” I live somewhere in between. I’m either standing out in the cold rainy night, waiting for something to happen or … Continue reading
344/365 – THE FIRST CHRISMAS
Word Count: 365 On one side of the desk were two boxes of Christmas cards. On the other, last year’s cards and a list. She opened the top box, took out the envelopes and set them in the center. She … Continue reading