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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 16
Martha had left the house very early with Willow. They walked the ten blocks to Main Street together but when they approached the Heaven’s Brew café...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 15
Martha tiptoed up the stairs and across the hallway to Perfidia’s bedroom door and knocked softly. After several seconds of no response she knocked...
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'Unwanted Magic" 7
The family finished the grilled burgers and hotdogs and with their hunger sated, they all felt too lazy to continue on the adventure but it was Joey...
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"Book of All Answers"
The title of the book on the shelf was ‘Book of All Answers’ and Amy laughed when she spied it. “If only it were." She dusted the book along with its...
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"Unwanted Magic" 6
“We have no choice but to go forward in the maze so we need to be careful but at the same time, we need to hurry,” the dad warned. “The mom nodded...
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I think I took a different
Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024
I think I took a different walk through this poem. One that was only in the mind, imagined. Where all things spark, light and dark.That forest was haunting; its ability to spring forth optimism and its penchant for snubbing it out were well...
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Empathy and innocent logic of
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
Empathy and innocent logic of a child mixed with the ability to believe magic is possible; a lovely poem that touches the child in all of us.
Read full commentPosted in Making Potions
Intriguing start, can't wait
Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024
Intriguing start, can't wait to see where this leads and what that thing is...have a feeling it might be magic, but not sure if its good. Hope there is more.
Read full commentPosted in Tom's Secret
Oh Jenny I hope you are
Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024
Oh Jenny I hope you are better soon; I'm so sorry to hear you have pneumonia. Please take care of yourself. -- I am happy to see you're writing and I much enjoyed this 'dear diary' post. I was taken in by the vivid imagination stirred by an out...
Read full commentPosted in His Flight
An honor and a true surprise-
Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024
An honor and a true surprise- Thank you so much
Read full commentPosted in "Book of All Answers"
I agree with all comments
Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024
I agree with all comments above; this is interesting in the extreme...a soul train to purgatory and now on platform 2?...All is unknown. I can't wait for the next part to see where this will lead.
Read full commentPosted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part One of Two)
Beautiful poetic rendering of
Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024
Beautiful poetic rendering of the quiet beauty of nature; if that all could see its worth as you do and work to preserve it; the world would be better for it; and so would we. Lovely poem Jenny; thank you for posting it.
Read full commentPosted in State Of Bliss
Enjoyed reading this and I
Posted on Mon, 20 May 2024
Enjoyed reading this and I understood that part about trying to put yourself to sleep, when your mind just fills with mundane stuff, and won't keep quiet no matter how much you try to shut it down. You’ve a good attitude about the day not going...
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The changing tempo, the easy
Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024
The changing tempo, the easy segue from one cadence of nursery rhyme to another was flawless, and your words perfect pearls of putdowns. It is true today, if you have a name that is recognized, the publishing world is open to you-no talent needed...
Read full commentPosted in Nursery Writes
Came to this story late but
Posted on Wed, 10 Apr 2024
Came to this story late but so happy to have read it now. Seeing an eclipse can have an effect, an out of the moment feeling, becaue everyting looks a bit off, not normal, strange and beautiful, I liked the happy ending you gave to the story;...
Read full commentPosted in Eclipse
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