Tag: stories
group name: womenwise
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April 23, 2006 05:55 AM EDT --
"To forgive points to an inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger" - Merriam Webster Dictionary
Forgiveness is . . .
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May 17, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
"What have you accomplished this year? " The interviewer asked with eyebrows raised.
My mind attempted to formulate the perfect answer, but all I could think of was the four . . .
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March 25, 2006 10:20 PM EST --
*our house
6 years ago we bought our first home. It is 79 years old and it shows. Over the years many, many owners have moved in and did what they thought was remodeling; I'll explain.
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May 21, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
I woke up this morning with a feeling in my gut that I haven't experienced in a very long time. Fear.
It's that awful wrenching, twisted, aching feeling that something - somewhere - is terribly . . .
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June 25, 2006 02:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday afternoon I called my son. I didn't get an answer and I didn't leave a message. I knew that I wasn't going to be home for him to call me back. He has caller ID, . . .
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April 26, 2006 09:42 PM EDT --
*Please don't take this as a need for self pity
I need to get this off my chest so proceed with caution*
I have a mental illness
Or two
Or three
It depends on whose . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:56 PM EDT --
My Kentucky grandmother kept a small cedar box hidden beneath the lace ruffles skirting her bed. I found it playing hide and seek with my sisters, my stomach pressed into the dust-covered worn floorboards. . . .
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April 09, 2006 12:22 PM EDT --
My Grandmother was in the hospital a few weeks ago when she told me that she was embarrassed by the fact that she had not shaved the hairs on her chin. It was very sad because she was stuck in the . . .
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June 12, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
If you heard an enormous sigh of relief emanating from the NY metro area around 1:00 this afternoon it was me. I just heard that I am not, after all, responsible for permanently disfiguring my four . . .
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May 29, 2006 12:58 PM EDT --
I have known for many years that I have an addictive personality. It has been a struggle at times to bring myself back to life after falling deep into addictive thinking and behavior. . . .
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April 28, 2006 09:10 PM EDT --
Memories
Feelings
Racing through my mind
What is real and what is not
Shhh
That noise
What was it
Did you hear it
My throat begins to constrict
I struggle to breathe
The shadows . . .
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August 05, 2006 07:36 AM EDT --
Help!! My head is spinning. I have a decision to make and it is making me crazy.
For twenty six years I lived in southeast Virginia while my parents lived in northern Wisconsin. . . .
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May 27, 2007 12:09 PM EDT --
"No, you don't know HOW I feel."
While I appreciated the fact that this person wanted to comfort me, and I didn't want to be rude, I had to cut him off. How could he . . .
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June 11, 2007 06:20 AM EDT --
On a trip with my mother, we found ourselves parched and stopped at a local gas-quick shop store. We went inside and decided to get a pair of these big cups filled with our favorite soda. We . . .
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September 27, 2008 02:28 PM EDT --
Simple Shorts are short fictional stories or blurbs. It seems to be the only coherent way I can write right now so eventually these stories will be pieces of the master story I intended them for.
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May 15, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
When I was four, we went to Sears. You wore seamed stockings, a black dress and a hat with a veil.
All I ever wanted was to try on dresses.
When I was six, I went to kindergarten.
All I ever wanted . . .
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May 24, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
Prompt: exactly 100 words "as seen through the eyes of an old lady"
In the fast fading light , I unpack the first of many boxes returned to me after seven years. Inside . . .
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April 27, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
Martha Jette wrote an article about being a grandmother and it got me to thinking about my daughter Beth who is 17. Can I imagine her having a child right now? When I was her age she was already 5 months . . .
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April 24, 2006 10:40 PM EDT --
I have a friend. Her name is Lora. Lora supports my habit. Enables me. Feeds my addiction. She's my contact on the inside. She's connected. She knows which strings to pull and when. She walks . . .
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Women Wise
Location: Weymouth, MA
Created: Mar 02, 2006
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