The sound of oversized boots dragging across wooden floors announced that it was 2:40 p.m. Shuffles, as we called her, would arrive each day, walk to the back of the store where the cash desk was situated, touch three things, and then turn around and slump on to her next stop. She had a mop […]
“This is a lot of stuff to remember, Grandma!” Seven-year-old Sloane and I are making a Zentangle. She’d tried to copy my work on her own with no success, so I’m teaching her step by step. “That’s why we keep practicing.” “Practice makes permanent!” “Do you mean perfect?” “No permanent. That’s what my teacher says.” […]
When nineteen-year-old Faby attends the annual Vaudeville Show in her small town, she is hoping to escape to the drudgery of day-to-day life in the Gauthier household, where chores are watched over by the critical eye of Maman and Maman Aurore. The year is 1924, the setting small town Vermont, USA, and even though she’s […]
Congratulations on your poem’s inclusion. Powerful writing.
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Thank you for that and for taking time to read it. (The published version is edited.)
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Edited…That must have been a difficult choice – which words to keep and which words to discard.
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Seems every time I reread a poem, it begs for editing, lol.
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Yes! Haha I agree. Knowing when to stop – I am working on that 🙂
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Congratulations on being published V.J.. Wayward Daughter is such a powerful poem, and I know it will touch a lot of people.
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Thanks Terri.
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Congratulations…thoroughly deserved, powerful poem!
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Thanks, Jim.
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This is AMAZING! Congrats! You really deserve it, and much more!
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Thank you – that’s sweet of you to say.
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It’s only sweet because it’s true. 😬
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Congratulations!! Very deserving, you have a wonderful way with words.
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