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“They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.” – Jo Nesbo
Ideas for a Story

Ideas for a Story

John had been called to Bill Powell’s bedside in the two-story brick house at the end of a white concrete drive—the one carefully edged from its encroaching nature at the seams of all the rock and bed and border. Bill Powell had pulmonary fibrosa and lay in a fearful...

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Hello, I’m the On-Call Chaplain

Hello, I’m the On-Call Chaplain

Sarah Selecky: Write a scene that involves porcelain, cedar, and something that’s stolen. -- I lean against the sink in the patient’s room on 5, trying to look non-anxious. That’s what we say when we write in the log book, a “non-anxious presence.” The patient got...

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Boy on the Bike

Boy on the Bike

I sat in the car after yoga adding to my grocery list. I stared at a kid with his bike on the corner, but visualized my refrigerator crisper—how many carrots? Had the cabbage gone brown? The light turned green and the boy had a moment where he had to push his legs...

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