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Dearest Mother and Father, Thanks be to you for sending me to live at the Gray Springs Boarding School for Girls. The sign on the outside reads ‘Building Strong and Healthy Young Women Since 1972’. I am reporting they surely do! When I first arrived I was unwell and living in a fog. The dark air swirled with impossibilities. I suffered so. I ...
I’m just going to report it, Murray and I may have hatched in the same nest, but he’s no feathered specimen of intellect and I hope he flies into a window. Speaking of feathered intellect, I’m dictating this to my friend Ebony. She’s one smart chicken who can write. Also she will be sticking around this winter whereas I’ll be flying south. So for the reporters that will inevitably come around looking for the bird ...
Write about a character arriving in a place unlike anywhere they’ve ever been... After three long days of contemplating this week’s choice of writing prompts I thought. Nope. I’m going to sit this one out. I just can’t think of anything. Location, location, location, gave me aggravation, aggravation, aggravation. My creativity felt stunted. It was as if a giant creature flooded my brain with a creati...
My latest endeavor failed so horribly there wasn't any amount of aspirin to help. My blinds were drawn at the Elder Care Home. My roommate, Fern Louise Peabody, was waking me by exhaling across my face and thumping her thumb on my forehead. Her morning routine bugs me but not enough to complain at the nurse’s station. There are far worse elderly residents. I don’t want to replace Fern. I kindly remind her how muc...
“Hello Dr. Remarkable, I feel we’re going to be the best of friends.” She cleared he throat. “Let me make a slight correction. My name is Dr. Reamer.” I shrugged. “I like Dr. Remarkable better. Since we are going to be such good friends, I’m going to call you Dr. Remarkable.” “All right.” Dr. Remarkable says. “My old therapist told me that it’s OK (I believe the technical word she used was
My roommate Allie nodded nervously. “Do you need me to fake barf again?” Her eyes darted back and forth. “I’ve been practicing so I can also fake choke.” I shook my head. “No.” I paused. “Yes---Wait maybe. I really wish Miss Tolson would stop sending me to my room for conduct unbecoming a young lady and resident of The Crawford Home for Children and Youth.” I cupped my hand and whispered in Allie’s ear. “All I’m g...
I love my much older sister. I really do. And believe me I wasn’t even angry at my sister Ann when I made that tiny error and burned her house down. To the ground. Completely. I really wasn’t. But sometimes these things just seem to happen. Be honest. Haven’t bad things accidentally happened to you? And weren’t you sometimes partially responsible? How about tot...
"Oh dear me, handcuffs?” I ask. “Are they necessary?" “Yes. Ma’am. Regulation.” The burly man in the gray suit says. He’s so handsome, reminds me of my grandson William, so smart, could read before kindergarten. It’s such a shame; William’s job keeps him so too busy to visit. “May I sit? Sometimes my legs just don’t want to work real good.” I say. One gray suit nods and pulls out a chair. “We’d like...
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