50-Word StoriesBrand new bite-sized fiction every weekday!MenuSearch for: MELISSA BARCOMB: This Morning September 21, 2018Adventure, Amusing, Submissionsfunny but also creepy, Melissa Barcomb, parenting It’s morning. Early. You stir next to me. Tiny hairs on the back of your neck, patches of fine white silk. Undisturbed by your rustle.You say I make you anxious. My hovering.I inch closer. And feel […]
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Nine years of living two miles from you . God I will miss you mom. I’m in a cot cozied up beside you while you sleep. You know I’m here .You know me, your daughter. You know and have known just as I have always known we were never alone. I cried out for you […]
I shifted in my seat, uncomfortable; the hard edge of the wooden stool jutting into my bone. I’d lost so much weight…running for miles and barely eating. Malibu in the summer. Nobu. Sequestered over in the corner of the bar. I didn’t want to see anyone, wasn’t even quite sure tonight would be the night. Until I heard the steady crush […]
My seventh grade locker stood beside Beth’s and that’s how we met. Her air preceded her; a waft of “Jeans” cologne, a “freshness”; clean and sweet as her fair aisle sweaters and orange levi cordorys, sized 26. Mine were 30 and I had two coveted, expensive pair. Beth had one in every color. The day […]
I didn’t know my dad would be gone by the end of that year, 2016. I wrote about him, his life, my life, sorrow, joy, and his birthday celebration on January 13th. He died on October 26th of that year.
We collect the moments, gather the hours, and fill our days, weeks, months — a year gone by. And another. The self help “helpers” guide us to the moment, to experience the present and revel in the beauty of being. I get that. And I do. Celebrate The Now. Frequently. Walking Scout I Gaze up […]
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