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To Sing Her Own Song

Mary Ellen GambuttiDecember 29, 2019

To Sing Her Own Song written by: Mary Ellen Gambutti @melcmg Questa was five when she ran in the grass, made sweet clover chains, and picked wild d...

EnglishLiterature5 min read

The Candy Store On Queens Boulevard

Anita G. GormanNovember 8, 2019

The Candy Store On Queens Boulevard written by: Anita G. Gorman @aggorman In the 1940s on Queens Boulevard near my house in Elmhurst, Queens, there s...

EnglishLiterature3 min read

Ohio, Iowa, and Sometimes Idaho

Anita G. GormanSeptember 21, 2019

Ohio, Iowa, and Sometimes Idaho written by: Anita G. Gorman It was a large dining room in a modern hotel in downtown Madrid, the night before we were ...

EnglishLiterature2 min read

Suitcases

Mary Ellen GambuttiJuly 28, 2019

Suitcases written by: Mary Ellen Gambutti @melcmg After he died, I went out to help you empty the house and put it up for sale. I sifted through pa...

EnglishLiterature13 min read

Misery Severity

Nicole ChengJuly 1, 2019

Misery Severity written by: Nicole Cheng @NicoleCheng13 Hello. I know who you are. You are the girl with everything. Everything from good to bad; ...

EnglishPoetry15 min read

Working The Crisis Hotline

Dianne MoritzMay 30, 2019

Working The Crisis Hotline written by: Dianne Moritz Down by the river in cramped quarters, telephones ring non-stop. Young people, women mostly, ...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Unbound Ties

Mary Ellen GambuttiMay 25, 2019

Unbound Ties written by: Mary Ellen Gambutti @melcmg The dad takes scores of photos of his charming, chosen child whom the mom has styled in ringle...

EnglishLiterature12 min read

Home Alone

Gabrielle SchenkelbergJanuary 2, 2019

Home Alone written by: Gabrielle Schenkelberg last night I shut all of the curtains took off all of my clothes and tip-toed through the living roo...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

I Am Jiggered

Dr Santosh BakayaNovember 29, 2017

I Am Jiggered written by: Dr Santosh Bakaya It is Roald Dahl’s 101st birthday today, and this catapults me back to the time, when my daughter was ju...

EnglishPoetry2 min read

The Last 20 Pages

Abhishek Kumar SachanNovember 11, 2017

The Last 20 Pages written by: Abhishek Kumar Sachan Finally reached the bend, of the memoir got my hands upon Spent fourteen hours religiously, on ...

EnglishPoetry1 min read

The Opened Door (Nicole’s World)

Nicole ChengAugust 11, 2017

The Opened Door (Nicole's World) written by: Nicole Cheng @NicoleCheng13 I was in my pink bedroom, Playing with Barbie as I groom; Sitting on the c...

EnglishPoetry8 min read

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I live in the small town of Long Lake, Minnesota, west of Minneapolis. I worked many years as a sales and technical training instructor. I began writing seriously in 2011 by writing a poem a day for a year. I loved the process and stayed with, focusing on rhymed poems and haiku. In 2015 I met a fellow writer who encouraged me to begin writing short stories. I did. In early 2018 I submitted my first story on-line and it was featured on CafeLit. I have been off and running since then. Bridge House Publishing is releasing a collection of twenty-seven of my stories later in 2020. I love the process of coming up with an idea and creating a story that hopefully has both emotional impact and is interesting to read. I have no plans on stopping. Many thanks to Spillwords for featuring my stories, and thank you to those who read them and who voted for me. It is truly an honor to have been selected as Author of the Month.