Category: Fiction

  • Pandemic School, Part 7

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    Connie is better. Caleb is better. The whole world is inhaling more easily. A new year has begun. But…everything is still difficult; nothing is as it once was. Perhaps it never will be again. My history teacher keeps drawing parallels between our times and the World Wars. Each worldwide collision with our mortality left society…

  • Saunder’s Hill – The Sled, Part 2

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    This is the continuation of the story that I began in a post over a year ago (click here for the first installment), but these stories date from my childhood. I hope you enjoy the ending! The day passed so quickly with Papa helping Jay, Kyle, and me build a snowman and lots of snowball…

  • Jaguar’s First Christmas

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    This little Christmas story was born from a “tub tale” invented by myself and my youngest. (Tub tales are short stories that we play while she’s in the tub.) Hope you enjoy! “Only four more days till Christmas!” Jaguar clapped her paws, “My VERY FIRST Christmas! I wonder what we do?” Jaguar was new to…

  • Pandemic School, Part 6

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    heathercmorris
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    My body sat motionless in front of my computer screen. My ears vaguely registered my world history teacher’s droning. My eyes glazed from the blue haze emanating from my laptop. My mind and heart floated far away, next to my best friend, her body also motionless. A ventilator breathed for her. I sucked in a…

  • Delphine’s Custom Pets

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    Delphine takes the time to get to know her friends and to create a perfect pet for each of them. But when she tries to make a perfect pet of her own, she finds out that this problem requires help from her friends. Delphine mixed and measured, stirred and swirled, then…she waited. “Not at all…