Laurie .Bahlke

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“What Moves Us Forward” by Laurie .Bahlke

Submitted to Contest #191

Maggie was twenty-one and often woke in the night to dreams of chocolate cake, tapioca pudding, doughnuts with heavy, vanilla icing, cotton candy, and her mother’s raspberry cream-filled macaroons. She didn’t wake with energy or a happy disposition. Instead, she felt disoriented, alone, and sad. Her neighbor, Mrs. Carter told her once that dreams like this weren’t about sweet cravings but rather about conflict and someti...

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I am a Speech-Language Pathologist, and enjoy writing creative non-fiction, inspirational memoir, and some short fiction.