Showing posts with label shortstoryathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shortstoryathon. Show all posts

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Who Needs Hemingway When You Have Holy Cannoli

If I stare at the blank screen long enough, a story should write itself. It doesn’t. Little girl on my lap; she kicks the computer. Scrunching her little toes on top of the laptop and pushing with all her might. She wants to be the center of attention and when she is not, all hell breaks loose. Very similar to an overly endowed women wearing a too tight tube top. One wrong move and the whole enchilada pops out for all the world to see. So, it is difficult to write a story. As soon as an idea forms in my head, I want to jot down the skeleton of the story. Sometimes access to a computer is not available. Other times, I start the story and have to stop to attend to little girl’s needs. By the time I return to the story, it’s not what I want to say and I hit the delete button to remove all traces of the story.


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Friday, July 17, 2009

Something Silly

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Stuck in the Middle

Click. “This is the Captain speaking. We will be making our final decent into O’Hare at this time. We hope to have you on the ground in half an hour where the local time is 6:30 pm and the current temperature is a toasty 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Ha Ha Ha! Just a wee bit of humor from the flight deck.” Click.

Dear Lord! I thought desperately. Will this flight from hell ever end?

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Friday, May 01, 2009

Hues Combined

Rustling leaves, shots of Vodka all around
Violet color flashes, thick, syrupy vintage pour
Sparkling blue radiance, water from the sound

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Friday, April 24, 2009

A Mid-Morning Encounter

The first day of spring and the temperature was already at 80° F at 11 in the morning. Chiara pushed a lock of mahogany hair from her warm brown eyes and looked up from her fashion magazine across the freshly cut lawn to the obtrusive Chemistry Library where she should have been studying for her physical chemistry mid-term exam, which was two days away on Friday.
“Excuse me, Can I have one of those?”

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