Tag: short
group name: firesmithwrites
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April 23, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
Two babies gazed at Sue from the depths of the stroller. She tried to keep her own gaze separate, didn't want to share their dreams. But four dark eyes were breaking down her resistance. . . . more
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May 02, 2008 01:38 PM EDT --
"Don't be late," they tell you, and you're thinking to yourself, it's a dream for heaven's sake. How can anyone be late to a dream? You're trying so very hard not . . . more
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May 07, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
"One for sorrow, two for joy," she said, counting swallows over the field. "Three for a girl, four for a boy; five for silver, six for gold."
Seven was the number that . . . more
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May 23, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
Baby Ellie waved spells in the air with her arms, just as any baby would. She gurgled foreign incantations, blowing bubbles through rosebud lips. Meanwhile her black eyes, gazing from the cradle's . . . more
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June 04, 2008 02:13 PM EDT --
The Easel Musings prompt is the Picasso painting.
This morning, as he had done many other mornings, Blake watched his wife stand before the mirror and silently apologize, not to herself, . . . more
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June 30, 2008 10:11 AM EDT --
The nights are so long and lonely in this old house, especially when the wind howls eerily, the . . . more
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April 14, 2008 12:10 PM EDT --
This prompt for this week's challenge is rot
Aunt Jeanie caught Toby removing the car rot s from his b rot h and feeding them to the rot tweiler.
"You . . . more
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April 02, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Play on word challenge pin
The pin t size boy sat on the s pin dly legged stool, ready for their nightly ritual.
"Cho pin." his grandmother said, . . . more
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June 07, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
This was the day. The day he had been working for for 13 long hard years. He had easily breezed through Dobson and Copeland Elementary schools, barely made it out . . . more
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May 28, 2008 01:41 PM EDT --
"Mother, I received a call from your home caregiver today. She's very upset. You've accused her of stealing your br ace let. Are sure you haven't mispl ace d it?" . . . more
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April 25, 2008 01:32 PM EDT --
This is number 72 in a set of 150 short stories based on psalms. I wrote them 4 years ago, and I've been spending some time tidying them up recently. All criticism, ideas, pubication . . . more
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August 03, 2008 02:20 AM EDT --
Amanda feels tension the minute she enters the sales meeting Monday morning. As she takes her seat in the conference room, she glues her eyes to the ticking wall clock, avoiding Jolie's pointed . . . more
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July 30, 2008 09:28 PM EDT --
When they tore down the pub next door to school they left one long wall standing. The administration bought the land and set the children the task of painting a mural - angels, they decided, on a blue . . . more
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April 12, 2008 09:20 PM EDT --
"You are a lovely bride" Mrs. Moneypenny said.
The bride thanked her.
"You're absolutely radiant" Mrs. Moneypenny gushed. "But tell . . . more
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January 30, 2008 07:19 PM EST --
I was shopping last Saturday. Nothing out of the ordinary, just shopping. The department store was filled with hurried people wanting to make their purchases and move on. Teen girls moved around in packs, . . . more
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May 31, 2008 05:18 PM EDT --
Dear Diary,
Dear Diary huh? How long has it been now? Three, maybe two years since I last wrote in you. Two years in which things seemed to be . . . more
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March 09, 2008 01:33 PM EDT --
It was not my habit to carry a gun, but on this day, for a reason unknown to me, I felt compelled to store it in my jacket. It was not my habit to enter without knocking, but she had neglected . . . more
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January 15, 2008 10:38 AM EST --
Play On Words for eat
After the d eat h of her father, B eat rice was surprised to learn that he had bequ eat hed his entire estate to her, rather than her older brother Eat on, and that . . . more
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March 11, 2008 01:50 PM EDT --
Play on Words challenge red
March had roa red in like a lion but had scampe red out like a lamb. Each time she pee red out her classroom window spring seemed . . . more
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March 18, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
Play on words or era
I am looking forward to spending time at my summer house. I see myself lazing about on the v era nda with a bev era ge or book in hand and I'm quite . . . more
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