Her Name Was Lola

Some years ago, I was in a car accident that totaled out my car. The amount the insurance company gave me was more than I thought my car was worth. I turned it around and bought a two year old car. It seemed to run great and was in excellent condition. [...]

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Late Night Thoughts

Today’s 3 Word Wednesday words are apology, consider, distant.  I chose to follow up on the scene I wrote on Monday as part of Manic Monday.  If you’d like to read that, you can find it here.  
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Barbara sat in the dark for a long time.  She cried and she took the time to consider [...]

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Second Chance

This week’s Writers Island prompt is “second chance.” Below you’ll find a couple of short, 100 word fiction pieces with “second chance” as the theme, although not necessarily the title.
Her Turn
It was the second chance she had thought would never come. The years had not been kind to her and her dreams had [...]

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Explosions

How had it happened? Everything had been wonderful.  Or so it had seemed.  They had been together for several years.  Barbara avoided confrontations with Chuck; avoided contradicting him because she had once caught just a tiny glimpse of his temper and had not wanted to incur his wrath. 
Barbara was fine with it.  She liked [...]

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Oscar Night Memories

I don’t remember a year when I did not watch the Academy Award presentation. As a child, it was a family event. We’d all sit together and watch the show. If memory serves, our first TV entered the house when I was about 3 years old. That would have been around [...]

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Happy Birthday, Grandma

Saturday would have been my grandmother’s 98th birthday but she died on January 26th.  I was supposed to drive my mother from Hemet, California to Corpus Christi, Texas.  That was actually a drive I was looking forward to.  I love to drive.  I would have loved to have seen my grandmother one more time.  We [...]

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Pain And Memory (Memoir)

I was going through my journal the other day and came across an entry that I had forgotten about. I wrote it one day when I was sick in bed, with a lot of pain in my lower back. I’m not one to make a big deal about pain or I’d be making [...]

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13 Blogs I Like To Read

In no particular order:
1.   Quotidian Vicissitudes 
2.   From Smiler With Love
3.   Inane Ramblings
4.   Visual Thoughts
5.   Bountiful Healing
6.   Tigereye’s Den
7.    Deadpan
8.    Pandemonic’s Time and Space
9.    Secret, Secret, I’ve Got A Secret
10.  The Little Fluffy Cat
11.   To Kill A Mockingbird
12.   Whisper
13.   La Bloga 
I actually follow about four [...]

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Illusion

Today I am trying a new activity.  It’s called Inspire Me Thursday.  This week’s task is to write about an illusion.  I chose to share a journal entry with you.  How does this fit in with the illusion topic?  Well, it’s about the illusion of writing.  I hope you enjoy it.
August 6, 2002
I sit and [...]

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Oh What A Night!

This Wednesday’s 3 words are: Punch, T-shirt, and Unravel
I walked into the house and without looking at her face, I knew Karen was staring at the Slayer t-shirt I was wearing and wondering what the hell got into me. She knew I would never buy a shirt like that. And the micro mini-skirt [...]

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