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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 20
Martha hadn’t wanted to leave Perfidia behind but time was growing shorter and they needed every second of it to prepare the room. So she made the...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 19
Perfidia breezed into the kitchen with a dreamy expression and Daphne giggled. “Looks like the love bug has bitten my cousin; imagine that!” Perfidia...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 18
Willow pussyfooted behind Avery following him for several blocks after he left the café and was surprised he hadn’t led her to his sports car and...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 17
Martha moved quietly through the garden. She opened the sliding door into the first floor bedroom and waited a heartbeat before going to find...
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"Unwanted Magic" 8
Fairy Lytes giggled a sound like hail hitting stone and said, “The bargain is this Flint; you will find one specific pirate and retrieve something he...
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No one like Armstrong and
Posted on Wed, 28 Aug 2024
No one like Armstrong and Ella now - I agree with you Luigi. I love listening to 'What a Wonderful World' and I've heard 'World on a String' by Ella and by Sinatra, both different takes and both magical. There was a recent story on 'Sunday...
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I feel like I've entered a
Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024
I feel like I've entered a puzzle of scrambled letters, ending with an intriguing omega sign ...hmmm are the lines in code? Is the essence of the poem about letters we haven’t written, or the meaning in letters we have? You’ve stumped me Ewan,...
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I love how this opened a
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I love how this opened a flood of comments and I read every one, all kinds of opinions and facts to be shared here. And that is what good writing needs to do or in this case a commentary. It opened up a discussion, created a marketplace of ideas...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Like Jenny your story hit me
Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024
Like Jenny your story hit me in a familiar way. In 2005 both of my parents became sick with life ending illnesses, we didn’t know about my mom’s until a week before she passed away. My dad lingered on for two months past her. It was life altering...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Facing up
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.
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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...
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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)
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