Category: Short Story

  • Six Word Stories (3)

    A collection of six word stories. Fog might obscure our path from time to time, but I am choosing to remember the path is still there and won’t move. Not only that, but mist is proof of the moisture that hangs in the air. The proof of life giving water. Proof of the cycle that…

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  • Six Word Stories (2)

    My second small collection of six word stories. Sometimes I search for a photo to match the words rolling around in my head. Sometimes I see a picture first, and it speaks to me. I am trying to teach myself to find words and emotions in places picture that do not always naturally speak to…

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  • Six Word Stories (1)

    I find briefness powerful, yet elusive. In the last few weeks, I have taken to trying to cultivate it in my own work by writing six word stories. It’s an exercise I am enjoying. Do you write six word stories? Or some other kind if micro fiction? What form of short prose do you find…

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  • Overwhelmed

    The table is strewn with papers. Books are piled up at its edges. The floor is covered with loose papers, toppled piles of books, pencil shavings. The Student is no longer sitting in the chair. It is pushed away from the table.

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  • Bed Crumbs

    There is a Stinker sitting in the middle of the bed. She wears an impish smile while stuffing bread crumbs and strawberry slices into her little cheeks…

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  • Dancing Snow

    After a night of troubled sleep, I wake up tired, but ready to get my two eldest children out the door for their last day of school. Our regular one week March Break will now be 3 weeks…

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