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Tuesday Tips #1

Tuesday Tips #1 Show don’t tell Outline your plot Don’t outline your plot Be descriptive Don’t be too descriptive Know what your characters had for breakfast Leave something to the readers imagination Grammar and the Oxford comma Break all the Grammer rules Write what you know Don’t use adverbs Vary sentence length There are soContinue reading “Tuesday Tips #1”

The East Wall

The woman rests her hand on her abdomen as tears burn her eyes.

Sibling Rivalry

“I don’t have it.” Drew gave an obnoxious big brother grin, as his sister punched him futilely.

Just the cats

He lifted his head from the keyboard but could only see as far as the monitor illuminated.

Blood Orchid

“Well, I want to go home. I feel fine. If I am still dying, I’m strong enough to go home. I don’t want to die here. I want to die at home.”

Extinction

Simple black pantsuit, white blouse, top button only open, pearl necklace, sensible heels, mid-size black leather satchel. Resume in manilla folder, with copies of awards and additional certifications. Arrive 15 minutes early.

The Mommy Manifesto

The perfect Mommy twins sneered in disgust. “The children of this community will be raised to standards. They will be breastfed, they will be vaccinated, they will learn to read before pre-K, and they will participate in sports where everyone wins because we don’t raise losers. They will not defile their bodies with tattoos or dermal piercings or install gages or gauges in their ears or whatever your sick alterna-minds invent.” As she pontificated, the second Mommy was feverishly flipping pages of the Mommy Manifesto.

Review of the Kroger Brightening Mask

Skin looking meh? When you look in the mirror, do you think to yourself that your skin looks dull, dingy, and splotchy? The dullness is generally caused by the buildup of dead skin cells that mute the skin’s natural glow. The splotchy, depending on the tone, can have multiple causes. Red splotches can be caused byContinue reading “Review of the Kroger Brightening Mask”