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  • Me!

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  • Thursday challenge #5 Can you tell a story in 26 words using the following words in it somewhere:

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    Tom and I were walking under my umbrella to Sudoku Club. We spotted a caterpillar hanging out with us. Our eyes and lips organically met.

  • Saturday Story “Cards”

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    Well I am two weeks behind this Saturday challenge. I am going to ” kill two birds with one stone ” and use it as a blog post. I have been holding it in my mind and heart; I hope you enjoy it. In my mind, I have been thinking about cards. When we did…

  • Thursday Story Challenge 50 Words #4

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    Jo remembered murderously critiquing to find the right words. She rolled the dice while munching a cupcake and considered not giving him the poem. They were only 13. Umbrella  Under the Umbrella with YOU Skies are always Blue. My first kiss under the Dome You promised you’d always be True.

  • Magic Umbrella #3

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    “Tom?” Petrified! My heart felt like I just completed a heptathlon. He looked the same except for the pepper gray hair and beard. “Remember that note you gave me written in crayon?” he asked. “The poem about the magic umbrella?” “Yes.”

  • Story in 52 Words # 2

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    At the Illicit Waxworks Museum nervously looking for him, it has been thirty-two years since they parted. Was it a haphazard meeting? She wore a polka dot dress fitted like seal skin. Still attractive, she heard growling approval from behind. She could fake an allergic reaction and go home if needed. “Jo?” I had to…

  • Story in 38 Words #1

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    Since his death, I stare at the computer checking my email for someone to razzle-dazzle me out of my algorithm of grief. Opening my email: Grand Opening of Illicit Waxwork Museum. Meet me. Eliciting my response, “What time?” I am doing these for fun! Fiction! Stay tuned every Thursday. Sal I had to use these…

  • Three Chords

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     “Three chords and the truth is all you need to write a good country song,” said Harlan Howard. I had been everywhere like the man who penned the lyrics. Like a  rolling stone, I was born in a Greyhound bus never to settle down. Women? I had women in every city on the music circuit.…

  • What a Life!

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    In my mind today I am so happy. I want to share yesterday with you. Let’s look at a day in the ALS life. On Saturdays I stay in bed until early afternoon. I give my troops, my caregivers (Abbey and Andy) time to get up slowly. As soon as one of them wakes up,…

  • In my bones

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    In my mind lately I’ve made a big mistake. I have taken my eyes and mind inward. I have allowed the pity party of this earthly life to take my focus from what really matters in one’s life. Students in the back row, it’s not “The all about Me Show.” Trying desperately to fulfill your…

  • Helpless

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    In my mind today, I have so many sad thoughts and feelings. I don’t want to leave my bed. I am trying desperately to outrun ALS, but I am in another valley. There seems to be no more outs to pull me through this. I know it’s different this time because I NEVER want to…