Tag: writing
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Obligatory New Year’s Post
It’s New Year’s Day and I have the pleasure of having the day off from my concrete cubicle prison [the 9-5 that pays the bills]. I’ve spent the last few days thinking about this past year and congratulating myself on the triumphs while quietly wondering if my failures are even worth weeping over. I still…
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Memories of Thetis
The tides were pulling out when Corin wandered down to the beach. Sand and rock glistened as the sun struck them, drying them with warm late morning rays of light. The shells of stranded invertebrates wriggled in search of cover. They disappeared one by one as the young man walked by, following the beach south…
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The Witch Next Door
A simmer pot bubbled on the stove, filling the air with a cleansing citrus smell while Madelyn scrubbed down the kitchen sink. Above her hung rows of drying herbs and cluttered along her countertops were jars of various spices, herbs, and freshly canned vegetables she had grown in the garden. On the table was a…
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Incognito
It was freeing to walk through the town square on market day. A certain liveliness filled the air with townsfolk and merchants filling the space with their goods and coin and voices. It had been a couple of decades since Aydin had been able to relish this feeling of walking through the common folk. Being…
Paper and Rabbits 