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Vicki Abelson’s 30 Day Writing Challenge #7 – Secrets – Day 8

Day 8 of Vicki’s WC7 – Secrets… Morning pages… letter to Nana (“email” is a four-letter word to Nana)… work on my noir escuro… and about an hour working on some notes for this year’s NaNoWriMo. I was going to … Continue reading

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Vicki Abelson’s 30 Day Writing Challenge #7 – Secrets – Day 6

Day 6 of Vicki’s WC7 – Secrets… I’ve got a secret… see? Right here… *holding out cupped hands and lifting one thumb* Technically, it’s not “fucking for grades” if the professor isn’t one of your current instructors, right?  I mean, … Continue reading

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Vicki Abelson’s 30 Day Writing Challenge #7 – Secrets – Day 2

Day 2 of Vicki’s WC7 – Secrets… There are three kinds of secrets… the ones that we tell only our closest friends… the ones that we tell no one… and the ones that we don’t even know we have.  The first … Continue reading

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Vicki Abelson’s 30 Day Writing Challenge #7 – Secrets – Day 1

Day 1 of Vicki’s WC7 – Secrets… * I’ve got a secret… well, more than one actually… but don’t we all? This secret though… this secret is one of the very last things I told Tina about my past and … Continue reading

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VICKI ABELSON’S WRITING CHALLENGE 2 – WHAT SCARES YOU?: THE DARKNESS OF MAN

In Vicki Ableson’s second 30 Day Writing Challenge, we are supposed to write about what scares us.  This is going to be an interesting 30 days.  Dr. Kay is back on speed-dial. ~*~ Day 9 of Vicki’s WC2… Woke up at 3 … Continue reading

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I WONDER…

I wonder… A young woman sits at the table across from me at the Food Court.  She seems lost in a moment, and has a smile on her face that can only be described as blissful. I wonder… what makes her … Continue reading

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2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading

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FLASH FICTION FRIDAY – F3 – CYCLE 38 – THE MADNESS EDITION: HELLO DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND

Tens of millions of people in the U.S. alone suffer from mental illness. The gamut is wide and varied, from OCD to agoraphobia, too many things in between. This week we take on madness. Prompt:  Write a story involving madness … Continue reading

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