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It took me thirty-five years to learn what I wanted to be when I grew up. Until then, I often felt as if there were a squiggly hole in my life. I can relate the feeling to solving a jigsaw puzzle that had a million pieces, yet, there was that last piece that

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Change: 1 of 100

Change is a force all its own, not worrying about fallout or hurt, upset or frenzy, impact or destruction. It cannot be contained, rationalized, or quantified. It happens or it doesn't. Something gets moved, even an inch, it changes. But the magnitude of a change has nothing to do with the change itself. The degree of differ...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Fantasy: 5 of 496

Linda Stevens got out of her molecular bed, slipped on her memory foam slippers, then replicated a cup of coffee for her and her husband, Charlie. Then she woke her children, took their breakfast orders, and went into the kitchen to replicate the food on her brand-new Replicator 3000, an anniversary gift from Charlie. She tu...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Brief encounters: 1 of 55

My hands hover over the keyboard the same way he'd hovered over me the night before. No more than a flimsy sheet of space had separated us as we laid in my bed, basking in those few moments of him looking at me, right before his touch transported me into another dimension. I sit here relishing the i...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Pain from love: 2 of 100

When Lenora chuckled, the world I had come to know ceased to exist. Nothing was tangible. I knew that laugh. I knew that smile. My blood boiled, peeling the skin off my heart, leaving its membranes exposed to Lenora's infectious lies. But on the outside, I played my hand as cool as the flip side of a pillow. I calmly put my ...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood Funny parenting stories: 3 of 73

When my eldest child reached eight, something inside me felt unzipped. Don't get me wrong, I loved the little guy, wouldn't have traded him for anything. But I still carried the yearning to nurture a baby. So, realizing that my thirties would eventually turn to forties, I had my second child. We had completed the nursery wit...
Health & Fitness > Exercise & Weight Loss How busy women can stay in shape: 1 of 24

How can a busy woman stay in shape? Let’s head back to the basics – back to childhood, back to the very things we were taught as young girls – eat your vegetables. Contrary to what you may think, exercise does not have the defining impact on getting in shape. Nutrition plays the m...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Murder: 8 of 182

"The carnival is the devil's playground." Elayna Reese remembered her father's words as she walked past the abandoned ticket booth at sunrise. The carnival was quiet, vacant, guarding its mysteries in the funhouse, whispering through the wind that was sweeping torn tickets across the ground. Rides that were in perpetual moti...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Lost in the woods: 1 of 18

The rapid beat of my heart, how I pant instead of breathe, my lack of visual due to this blindfold, all remind me that life belongs to no one. And that death is sometimes caused by entrapment of one's own design. My submissive side wants to plead for mercy. My dominant, take no crap and even less prisoners side, wants to tau...
Business > Entrepreneurship Recession-resistant franchises: 1 of 17

A recession occurs when the nation suffers negative growth. To some, opening a business during this time of economic crisis equals financial suicide; however, this notion is flawed and grossly narrow . Franchising, for example, allows people to thrive in tough tim...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Breaking up: 2 of 32

I hope he will say something. Anything. He doesn't. He looks at me and then looks around, his eyes coming back to me as if pause will give way to a change in my heart. He's calm, so maybe I had it right, asking him to meet me at a restaurant so I could break up with him in the safety of an audi...