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Submitted to Contest #270
Welcome back, my faithful readers! It’s your favourite messy mama here to help all you beautiful babes create magic in the kitchen! It’s been a hot minute since I last updated this space, but it’s been quite the eventful summer. Now I know that a lot of you get frustrated by me droning on and on in these little anecdotes and want to skip right on over to the recipe, but I think they add a personal flair to each recipe.  With that being said, let’s play a little catch-up! My daughter turned sixteen in June (I know, I can’t believe i...
Submitted to Contest #268
Content warning: mentions of suicide and inappropriate relationships between a teacher and a student * What’s the worst rumour you’ve ever started about someone? I’ll go first: in grade twelve, I told Ellie Jensen that Bianca Wheeler was sleeping with our AP English teacher in exchange for better grades. Ellie, being Ellie, made sure that the story spread like wildfire before the last period bell had rung, and by the time classes resumed the next morning, Bianca and Mr. Keller were the talk of the school. Maybe it’s wrong, but I didn’t e...
Submitted to Contest #266
“Emily, do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?” I grin and look at Ben. His golden blond hair is perfectly in place for the first time in his life, and his eyes are still glassy from when he cried as I walked down the aisle. Today is the most magical, perfect day – except it’s not. “No,” I answer, and several people in the crowd gasp and there’s a murmur of voices questioning whether they’ve heard right. “I’m sorry, but I can’t get married today. Actually, there’s somewhere else I need to be right now.” I scoop up the front...
I do more writing in my mind than on paper, but I'm trying to change that.
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