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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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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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"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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'The circle of your unmapped
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
'The circle of your unmapped eye was the circumference of the world.' Brilliant ending line. Wanderers of centuries past ignorant of what existed beyond their town borders allowed imagination to become reality, creating monsters from a bear’s...
Read full commentPosted in Before Maps Were Made
I am caught up on the story
Posted on Fri, 23 Aug 2024
I am caught up on the story now and cannot wait to see what hapens next. Thought the same as Jenny- is Jeannie trustworthy? But as your response shows...maybe not....
Read full commentPosted in The Jean Genie (Dead Reckoning series - Part 23)
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...
Read full commentPosted in I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
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,...
Read full commentPosted in Letters
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...
Read full commentPosted in Forest in the Brain
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
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