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  • F… Five Year Planner

    Welcome to my latest exercise in an attempt to reach my goal of being a prolific writer in 2022. So, in addition to writing 1 short story each week ( Because Ray Bradbury said you can’t write 52 bad ones – challenge accepted!) I will be attempting to post an original poem each day in…

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  • E…Enough

    Welcome to my latest exercise in an attempt to reach my goal of being a prolific writer in 2022. So, in addition to writing 1 short story each week ( Because Ray Bradbury said you can’t write 52 bad ones – challenge accepted!) I will be attempting to post an original poem each day in…

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  • D…Dare I Disturb the Dawn?

    (Welcome to my latest exercise in an attempt to reach my goal of being a prolific writer in 2022. So, in addition to writing 1 short story each week ( Because Ray Bradbury said you can’t write 52 bad ones – challenge accepted!) I will be attempting to post an original poem each day in…

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  • Sucky Story Sunday, Episode 13

    Welcome to Sucky Story Sunday, where my goal is to prove Ray Bradbury wrong and write 52 bad stories. This week’s prompts: A former beauty queenRuns awayAn hourglass Extensions Hannah’s face hurt from all the smiling. She lost count of the people asking for selfies – mostly women her mother’s age, proudly holding up the…

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  • B….Back When We Were Free

    (Welcome to my latest exercise in an attempt to reach my goal of being a prolific writer in 2022. So, in addition to writing 1 short story each week ( Because Ray Bradbury said you can’t write 52 bad ones – challenge accepted!) I will be attempting to post an original poem each day in…

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  • Sucky Story Sunday, Episode 12

    Welcome to Sucky Story Sunday, where my goal is to prove Ray Bradbury wrong and write 52 bad stories. This week’s prompts: An unlikely secret agentRuns into an exA KeyA flood The Damn Dam Another school bus pulled into the drop-off lane in front of the elementary school. Brad readjusted his white chef’s coat and…

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  • Sucky Story Sunday, Episode 11

    Welcome to Sucky Story Sunday, where my goal is to prove Ray Bradbury wrong and write 52 bad stories. This week’s prompts: A junk sculptorCan go back in time and change one thingA SurpriseEmpty bookshelves. If I Could Turn Back Time Curtis Haymer lived for a good yard sale. He stood at the table, marveling…

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  • Sucky Story Sunday Episode 10

    Welcome to Sucky Story Sunday, where my goal is to prove Ray Bradbury wrong and write 52 bad stories. This week’s prompts: A Shopping Mall SantaReceives a strange inheritanceA tub of green gooA beach Santa’s Gift As a general rule, Danny Patterson did not wear hard pants on his days off. After a long work…

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  • It’s Sucky Story Sunday – Episode 9

    Welcome to Sucky Story Sunday, where my goal is to prove Ray Bradbury wrong and write 52 bad stories. This week’s prompts: A Carpet Store Sales ClerkThrows a tantrumA lucky charmA country home Hiding the Hardwood  A movie character once said “The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you…

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  • It’s Sucky Story Sunday!

    Here is our story this week. Apologies for not having real names for the Drama Teacher and the History teacher. I think they are going to play a bigger role and I don’t know them well enough to give them names yet. The History Drama Prompt:  A high school Drama student, discovers a conspiracy, poison.…

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