“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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100 Word Challenge: In the mud
Mother looked up from the stove at the child covered in mud. “Where have you been?” she demanded. “Digging in the creek bottom,” the girl perked. “We found a man.” “What do you mean you found a man? Stay put, you’re filthy!” “In the bottoms. Tommy and I were digging, and we found him.” “A […]
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100 Word Challenge: Lost and Found
He sat on the ramshackle steps, broken with grief and despair. After all, they had barely survived, was this the end? The sickness had taken what little family they had. The riots, their jobs. The fires, their possessions. They escaped the ruins with only their lives. But the pains came far too early. Somehow, the […]
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100 Word Challenge: Waiting
The old man settled himself in the sand, the same time and exact place he had waited for the past 58 years. Early on, he watched with anticipation. Later, when he was eager to get back to his family and work, he sat with perfunctory duty. Now he kept his vigil with longing. His […]
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100 Word Challenge: Payback
The third threat came by courier. The first was a call; the second, a letter. Now this package addressed in the same scrawl as the letter. Jones laughed as he remembered the old lady’s angry threats when she realized her “safe investment” wasn’t. He ripped open the package and dumped a crumpled paper into his […]
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100 Word Challenge: The Rite
Her knees quaked as the clouds rushed at her. Bracing herself against the bare rock, she breathed, “I can do this. Withstand the storm; stand in the assembly.” A too-close crack of lightning shattered a tree in the valley below. Cowering, her wide eyes fell on an arrow, made visible in the bright flash. It […]
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I’m going to break the chain, y’all
Since March 1, 2013, I have posted something on my blog every day. From lengthy rants, to regular features, to weirdness, to place fillers, I’ve followed Jerry Seinfeld’s advice on writing: Don’t break the chain. But now I’m going to break it deliberately. Why would I want to break a two-year streak on purpose? Mainly […]
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Learning about writing and myself
When I hit my one year mark for the Great Blog Project, I started re-evaluating what I’ve been doing, particularly my goals with regard to writing. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, although I didn’t have any clear idea where I wanted to go. But slowly, I’m getting a better idea of what I […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Winter fantasy
I have a dream that a huge winter storm comes and cancels all of our appointments and games and activities and what have you for two weeks. And then I wake up and remember I live in Texas. Oh well. We’re busy, but it was 70 degrees this weekend. It’s all about the trade-offs. Dealing-with-it […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Brain dump
I got nothing. Links! Raise a glass to Claude Shannon, Jr. , the genius no one’s heard of but whose work you’re benefiting from right now. There ought to be no law. From the little I’ve read, the law isn’t as awful as it could be, but talk about a camel’s nose in the door. […]
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Another milepost
Today is my 200th straight post in the Great Blog Project, and another opportunity to reevaluate where I am and where I think I’m going with this little experiment. On day 100, my goal was to become a better writer. 100 days later and I’m good! Kidding. Actually, that’s probably a life-long endeavor, and I […]
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