Tag: creative writing
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Meeting the Dragons (Snapshot Stories 21)
It was the boy’s second week at the Retreat in the Countryside that was Far Away From Anywhere Else. The young boy awoke – as he had every morning since he had arrived – to the sound of incessant buzzes and giggles of the dragonflies. The dragonflies were only going about their daily business in…
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The Woman Who Painted Love Hearts (Snapshot Stories 13)
At first the woman set herself up in the little tree-lined park, just to the left of the entrance, on the grass and among the trees. She set out her little desk and stool, and carefully pulled out a scrapbook – the kind you can buy at the supermarket, a shallow plastic tub which had…
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The River Being (Snapshot Stories 10)
The being who appeared before us in the river that night was radiant with stars. Around her, the air prickled with the sound of distant oceans, and she moved and circled restlessly in the way water won’t keep still. But it was her eyes that made me catch my breath. They were a wild wind…