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Submitted to Contest #37
West Virginia 1977Anna stood upon the shore waiting as Edward disembarked his ship. Soon he would be in her arms and the years of separation would melt away. Marilee sighed as she pushed away the old typewriter. She knew these words to be pure fantasy. True love did not actually exist. But “Women’s Romances” magazine paid her to pretend that it did. The small checks she received from them kept her from starving during the brutal West Virginia winter.Marilee lived alone in the tiny cabin. Her radio and her old Ford truck her only links to the...
Submitted to Contest #36
Dear Diary:You were sitting in the middle of the kitchen table when I came down for breakfast. You had a pretty blue flowered cover with a ballerina on the front. Mom said she bought me a diary for my tenth birthday because I had a lot to say and it was time to put my words on paper.Mom made me blueberry pancakes for my birthday breakfast and said that after school we would go to a movie together and then have dinner out. I didn’t ask if my dad was coming. I knew the answer already.Mom picked me up after school and we saw “Back to the Future...
Submitted to Contest #35
Spring 1942Katt had chosen the yellow dress with the short sleeves from the Sears catalog. She’d saved up for months. Using babysitting money, birthday money, and money from her part time job at Mason‘s Hardware. Her grandmother had chosen a pattern and wanted to sew her a dress. But that dress was pink and fru-fru. Katt had told her grandmother she was eighteen years old, not eight.When Thomas came to the door he whistled appreciatively.“Yowsa! Katt, you look like an actual girl!”Katt was not certain how to take that comment. She kissed him...
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