The Idea-smithy

This is for Dee, the editor I’d like to have, who quite literally showed me the way.
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Where do stories come from? she wondered. Her editor had told her that her writing had a quality of finesse in it. But, he said, the spark was missing. She wanted to protest, it had been such an effort [...]

Eight years after hearing about it for the first time, I finally watched The Vagina Monologues. Wish me a happy birthday since I’m being reborn. On second thoughts, don’t say a word. Just listen as we speak – my vagina and I.
I hated being a woman. The restrictions, the rules, the fears of my mother, [...]

An actual conversation with someone who wishes to stay low-profile but has some very HIGH hopes indeed!
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I asked the Dreamcatcher if she had met Dream and she laughed and told me,
you shall be addicted
you shall not want to go out and meet people
you shall only want to sit and read sandman
my god if i could afford them, i would dance the dance of joy!
So if my words sound a little odd, [...]

The week
What a week!
she winced
Every morning waking up with a bad headache
A foul taste in her mouth and the most unpleasant feeling of all…
That the world was just the way she had left it the previous night
Improved not a whit, insurmountable problems waiting to plague her again
No respite.
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The night
Evening was a haze of cigarette smoke [...]

When we kiss, do you close your eyes?
Or are you looking over my shoulder to see if someone better comes along?
I keep my eyes open,
checking if you close your eyes!
How come you don’t trust me?
Because you don’t trust me.
How do you figure that?
Because you ask too many questions!

He came back, as she knew he would
She took him back, as he knew she would
They made love. They both knew it.
He stretched and said
Next time…
She interrupted
There won’t be a next time.
Then she left.
Didn’t everyone know that would happen? Just not when.