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writings : Blog Confessions of Marriage and Motherhood : MadMarriage

Gardenias, Revised

So I’ve finally completed the short story I’ve had open for a long time. The writing I’ve done recently makes sense within its context, completes it somehow…

She is just about to shower when Paul begins to rattle the knob and pound at the door. He knows how she hates to be disturbed while mired […]

A Little Assistance Please

I need your help today - on two counts.
One: You all seemed to have enjoyed the bit of fiction I shared yesterday and because I’m not sure where to go with it next, I’m interested to hear what my fair readers might propose as possible plot trajectory for my character and her love interest. […]

Anatomy of an Affair (excerpt)

She likes to start the day by shaking each teacher’s hand before relinquishing control of her only children. She feels the morning meet and greet is less an attempt to curry favor than an opportunity to give each instructor a look in the eye, to remind them of their precious charge, that they and they […]

Memory Lane, the meme

Again saved by a meme… a recycling meme, from a new friend no less. Jennifer over at Thursday Drive has saved me from having to come up with new and insightful material today. The idea is that some of my best writing may actually be behind me. I love new friends. I love memes. I […]

Word Wizards

Today I meme. It’s a literature-meme, so I’m excited…
Mizmell has tagged me and I am supposed to grab the book nearest to my left elbow and open to page 123. I am to find the fifth sentence on the page and copy the next three sentences after the fifth here in this blog. And while […]

While I’m Away

I knew there would be some good that comes of this blogging thing. And low and behold I was able to fashion a short story using snippets of my writing from the Madmarriage space. When I return from vacation I will have to FedEx this story and the first few chapters of Habeas Corpus to […]

Habeas Corpus, Installment 8

It took the papers a full day to get the story. Lacy was found in the middle of Rte. 100 some time just before 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The Green Mountain Ledger led with the story on Wednesday. By that time, Lacy had died of her wounds at Rutland Regional Hospital. […]

A Contestant of Sorts

I begged for challenges and only one obliged. Ron over at R World has tempted me to reapply to that damn writing program that wrestled my heart from my chest and hurled it in a dumpster last Spring. And so it begins, my e-mails and phone calls to the same administrative assistant that put up […]

The Timbre of Her Fears


Habeas Corpus, installment 4

It had seemed like a hopeful beginning before it was patterned in failure - Chad and I alone on the balcony of the Phi Delt house, free from the great drifts of pot smoke and the gurgle and pull of the bong. He had grabbed my hand and pushed his way through the French doors […]

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