July 2010
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Try it On Tuesday: July 20th
I am thrilled that I wrote this in one short burst just this morning (maybe an hour, with some interruptions for coffee and Lego piece finding). It goes to show me that I need to do it more often, the writing in bursts to play around.
Inspiration, in no particular order:
-the dress, and my position in the bathtub (a wonderful suggestion by Julie, the photog!), led me to think of mysteries
- the...
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Three Thousand Forty-Six Hits by 9:30 am
for HJSH
If she was being honest, she had two accomplices: Chrissy, her friend, and Keith, her son. But, as her head was slowly guided into the back of the waiting patrol car, she vowed to herself that their names would not be mentioned. There was no reason why she would have to divulge the names of her “accomplices,” partners in crime. Years of watching cop shows and reading...
July 17th, 2010
slightly belated, but more coming … got a few good ideas today! You’ll see that I changed the title from what I was originally thinking, and even changed the first line …
Hey, tomorrow’s Tuesday! I’ll post something new.
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All That's Missing is the Sparkle.
The small shop just past the corner of Mellon and Rhodes consigned a good number of the more extravagant frivolities of the neighbourhood. At various times over the past three years, it had housed, for however brief a time, exactly one thousand eight hundred seventy six different articles, ranging from the predictable to the esoteric. Joyce Berry’s not insubstantial handful of gold had ended...
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Have I really not posted since JUNE???!!!??? My word.
Well, I can offer very little in the way of excuses. I did have to watch every match of the the World Cup (Fiona is a card-carrying kickette); I did have to enjoy the summer heat that has enveloped my neck of the woods (hello, beach, I love you); I did have to take some steps toward remunerative employment at some point in my future (some of...
