Category Archives: Telling Stories

Superbowl?

Posted on February 7, 2011 by randomyriad

I have been so busy this week and so absorbed in writing that for the first time since I was a small child I did not even remember there was a Super bowl in progress. I just moved through my … Continue reading →

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Century #4: The Drop Off

Posted on February 3, 2011 by randomyriad

Girl Abandoned 4/17/1986 It was 4:56 am  on a Sunday under a black sky with grey patches. Snow lay in smudges with grass poking out here and there. Next to the snow is a road winding up into the hills … Continue reading →

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Century #2: A Season of Disaster

Posted on February 1, 2011 by randomyriad

A Venture August 4, 1898 It was a year of dire hardship in the parish of Saint Tammany. A deadly hurricane was followed by 6 months of drought followed by a tropical storm that spawned a tornado that leveled the … Continue reading →

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Century #1: A Small Town in Texas

Posted on January 31, 2011 by randomyriad

A Big Wind Through a Small Town September 8, 1900 Ezra sat in the small cell listening to the fearful mutterings in the adjacent cell.  As gusts of wind struck the wood and brick building, low groans and creaks emanated … Continue reading →

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Mississippi Mind Map

Posted on January 16, 2011 by randomyriad

This is a little bit of an idea I put together for Pieces of the Mirror, my, as yet unfinished, collection of puzzled prose I was writing in the summer of 2008. It somehow did not get posted, or was … Continue reading →

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