Sunday, March 10, 2019

Who does Jesus love?

- But nana, I really am the best in math. Stop! Jesus loves children. He doesn’t like brags. Let others realize on their own - - If they don’t? Work harder. Years later, I watched the brags move up in life. God must hate them , I thought with glee.

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The only constant - Change

A story in 3 Tweets. Edited slightly from how I first published them on Twitter.

Part 1:

Yes, I’m sure I have the only room key. This station’s dead now, was the terminus till they extended Silver Line. A vase was moved? - Moves. Every day. To the table, into the sink. , I’m tired of talking to a new agent every day. Where’s Moylen? Who’s that?

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Part 2:

Tara today, yesterday Moylen. Acting like they understand. I myself to the new world each day, but it’s a new railroad, a new map, the moved vase. They don’t know what it is to be me, the only constant in a changing universe. I’m scared I’ve been changing too.

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Part 3:

Moylen, Tara. Agent X tomorrow. I’ll bludgeon the sap to death with the glass vase. No one will know. Truth is there’s no rules. I try to , but no one cares.
You ask if this will ever end? It’s Newtonian really. Cause, effect.

Stop moving my vase, I'll stop my calls.

Consensus

Can’t this - he’s fucked half the women in the office. Consensual? Yes. Works till it doesn’t - his poetry, the lost puppy look. They find out he’s married. The Other Other women. They show up at my desk - HR! Help! He’s a legit asshat - But a legal one.

Revenge is best served sweet

He parked like a fuckin’ asshole. It was a he? He, she. It. Fuckin’ matters? It’s mental, straddling two parking spots like that. Please tell me you didn’t start a fight. Or key the car. Course not. I just went back and smothered the windshield in maple .

Excisions

- It’s too much. The roots are beginning to rot, ma’am. You’re risking an infection. - Cutting them out will definitely kill him. Maybe. - He never felt he so he attached himself to me. Excising him may save you. Both of you.

She

stumbled upon a technique to grow her own wings. They’re light but strong, alloyed with empathy. The takeoffs are short of spectacular - a run, flapping. Sometimes she falls. But she steadies herself, runs, flaps again and she’s off. The youngins watch and learn.

Sweet poisons

..the of busy..forgot baby in car..shopping..died. Tell them what I bought, Jo’s eyes begged her lawyer. Antifreeze, cos Wiki said it’s a sweet poison. I wanted to give us a sweet last meal. He ignored her. Busy-mom worked better with juries than suicide-bitch.

Saying it with dots and dashes

.. .-.. -- ...- . .-- ---..- -Another project? <silence> -Pretty card though. Ed placed it on the mantel. Roz sighed. These days he didn’t get her in plain English; there was no way he’d painstakingly decode Morse’s and dashes. Could? Yes. Would? No.

The Map of my Life

This short story won Muse of the Month March 2019 award on the Women's Web site:  https://www.womensweb.in/2019/03/a-map-of-my-life-m...

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