family drama
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The Poisoned Turkey
August 2025 Short Story of the Month I stopped for a breath before cutting the turkey. I wanted to appreciate the moment. Seeing everyone there, sitting around the table, almost felt like we were a family again. But if we had been a real family I wouldn’t be seconds away from killing them all. In Continue reading
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AITA posts and why I can’t stop reading…
As I’m sure you are all aware, there are so many different types of posts and things to get sucked into on social media. I recently have been addicted to the AITA posts. O!M!G! I can’t stop reading them. I get sucked in almost instantly. I have no idea why. Every night for the last Continue reading
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July’s Prompt
July is trying to get away from me, like so many of the months earlier this year. I’m not letting it happen. Focus. Focus. Focus. I am avoiding distractions and checking my to-do lists several times a day —- it seems to be helping. If you are here for the short story of the month Continue reading
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Magic Doesn’t Fix Everything
March 2021’s short story of the month (super-duper late) “Maybe the doctor was wrong,” Annie said, though her voice cracked revealing her disappointment. I ran my hands through my hair, trying to calm myself. “He wasn’t wrong.” I didn’t want to have this argument again. I tried to steady my nerves, but it wasn’t working. Continue reading
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Double Double
November 2020’s short story of the month In German it’s called a doppelganger, a look-alike. Literally, a “double-goer.” I stared at the boy in the newspaper article. Was it possible that he wasn’t aware that he had a double out there, just like I didn’t know until today when my cousin showed me the paper? Continue reading
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Trouble, Trouble, Trouble
September 2020’s short story of the month She kept pacing the living room, back and forth, back and forth, not saying a word. It would have been easier if she had just come out and told us how disappointed she was, announced our punishment, and sent us to our rooms. But she wanted us to Continue reading
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Battlemage for Life
July 2020’s short story of the month It felt uncanny, but oddly good, to hear kids running through the house again. I wondered if I could handle being a father, or at least a father figure, after all these years. I thought about the times when my wife and I fought. It was always about Continue reading
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Still Struggling
Since my last post, things have not gotten any better. This has been the worst move that my family has ever been through. Today, as we were unpacking one of the last boxes we found my coin collection archival box, but it was empty. The movers/packers opened my archival box, which just looks like a Continue reading
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Moving
It’s been a while since I’ve posted because my family is moving. I’ve had little time for writing and reading. The move isn’t going to plan. In fact, nothing is going according to plan lately. Instead of being able to make thought out choices, we’ve had to just go with options that we really don’t Continue reading
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Dad, Follower of Merlin
May 2020’s short story of the month Present day… It was odd to be in a room full of people who all seemed to look up to my dad like he was some kind of hero. A part of me wanted to see him through their eyes just for a moment. I tried to picture Continue reading
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