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Category Archives: family
Gertie And Morris in a “Slice of Type” only on Friday Fictioneers
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Morris Buys a Watermelon: The Continuing Adventures Only on Friday Fictioneers
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Morris schlepps Gertie to a seedy part of town for a bargain. But will it be more than he bargained for?
Gertie and Morris On Stage: The Continuing Adventures Only on Friday Fictioneers
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When You Need Some Time Away to Think, a Barn is not the Place: Friday Fictioneers
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Gertie books a place for them so that Morris can get away and think. But, boy, does it go awry!
So it’s not Katz’s Deli? Friday Fictioneers
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Taking Charge: Friday Fictioneers
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Every parent has to take charge. Please and thank you only goes so far; nagging certainly doesn’t work and we often let things get way too far out of hand…
Making the Best of It: Friday Fictioneers
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Brothers: Friday Fictioneers
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Brothers, siblings, rivals. Always teasing, testing the limits, manipulating. Like some adults we know? Even countries? Presidents, too? OK. So how will this one end?
Better than Disney World: Friday Fictioneers
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This kid would rather ride a ferry than be at Disney first thing in the morning. He’s not my child. I think some dibbick has invaded him…
I Offered My Heart on Wounded Knees (an indigenous love story)
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The Adventures of Jim and Henrietta and Her Amazing Bone Crushing Headache Machine: Friday Fictioneers
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Love means helping one another. Sometimes, preferably, from far away…
Friday Fictioneers: Do You Really Think You Light Up Our Lives? (Dedicated to our power companies)
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The First Day in the Life of Moishe and Geetel in Their New Apartment in The Bronx: Friday Fictioneers
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Cervantes’ Straw: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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There is a Wall: dVerse ~ Poets Pub
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We live in a world of walls, comprising all sorts of rooms – most man-made – some concrete, others imaginary – ultimately though, we do not get to choose that last room, do we?
Solutions; Or, What Jon Does When Sandra Prattles Forever On About Something or Other … Friday Fictioneers
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Love and marriage. The world and casual couple conversations. Politics and practical polemics. Solutions and ….
Hard Wired for Life: Friday Fictioneers
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Although I wrote the story about being hard wired, as an afterthought my guess is that kids nowadays would opt to network, so cutting the wire would not be a problem for them…
To My Love: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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An Artist’s Path to the Sea: Friday Fictioneers
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Some people see things where others don’t, some people create things where others don’t see them, and then some people just don’t create or see, but they like to go to the sea…
A Hot Topic: Friday Fictioneers
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Love can be a hot topic at any age. Let’s listen in on octogenarians Adeline and Jack discuss their latest attempts at how to make one of their favorite meals. Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a … Continue reading
The Coupler: Friday Fictioneers
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Things are connected in many ways. But sometimes, connections can kill… Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week it’s about how important things, not only in a family’s history, but how … Continue reading
Playing Second Fiddle to a Clarinet: Friday Fictioneers
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Sometimes playing second fiddle has better results than we can ever imagine…
Love, Pizza Style: Friday Fictioneers
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The Calling: Friday Fictioneers
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Everyone has an inner calling, if we just pay attention. This young man not only had an inner calling, he tried on various names in relation to that calling…
No One Like My Dad: Friday Fictioneers
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Even in the most poorest of places, things can be gotten, love can grow, and bonds deepen…
Life Grows On: Friday Fictioneers
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Sadness enters everyone’s life at one time or another. Sometimes we have to borrow from other people in order to overcome the starkness of events. This young man borrowed something that…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone, But Never Forgotten
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This week’s photo challenge from The Daily Post is: Gone, But Never Forgotten. You can’t see my father in his wheelchair here. We took this shot obviously from behind. My father had Alzheimer’s and was being cared for in an … Continue reading
On Talking About the Moon: Friday Non-FictionaLunatics
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Honey’s real name might as well have been Alice, and Sam could have easily been Ralph, or George and Gracie, Desi and Lucy, or Randy and …. Nellie? Whoa, Nellie.
When The Kids Move Out: Limerick Off Monday
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Ever wonder what life will be like when the kids move out? Don’t be fooled by that illusion. When it is said that something’s too good to be true, well, you know the truth, it’s too good to be true…
A Novel In Search of an Author: Friday Desktioneers
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When everybody in the family wants you to do something, sometimes you just have to man up and do it. Even if you don’t know what it is you have to do or, in this case, how to even do … Continue reading
Entrees, Like Revenge, May Be Served Cold: Limerick Off Monday
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Limerick Post (Limerick-Off Monday) of MAD KANE’S HUMOR BLOG challenges readers/writers to write, obviously, LIMERICKS! This week’s suggested first line that I chose was: When the entrée arrived, it was cold… Entrees, Like Revenge, May Be Served Cold When … Continue reading
Seagram’s 7: Five Sentence Fiction
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Love and admiration, family and memories, proud women and what this country is built on…
On Passing King Vertigas: Friday Fictioneer
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Breaking the Rules: Shining The Light on Our Father
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Sometimes you have to break the rules, but most times a little light will work just as well…
Puppy’s First Birthday: Five Sentence Fiction
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Wouldn’t You Pretend to be Ill?: Limerick Off Monday
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I’m sure that every one of you can relate to this, especially if you have children.
Sam and Martha Debate Environmental Issues at Home: Friday Fictioneers Served Up Luke Warm on Monday (Better Late Than Liver)
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Marlboro Men (and Women and Teenagers): Nicotine CEO’s – Life Slices
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From Zed to Alpha: Renewal — Friday Fictioneers
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To Bill and Janet… of bwfiction, bwthoughts, and This, that and the other thing
You Are So Revered: The Friday Fict-revere
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They Call Me Anna: Friday Fictioneers
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A Visit to the Tonight Studio: Friday Fictioneers
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Memories linger like the scent of her perfume or the touch of the pillow that she never shared with me because it was her favorite…
We Go Cruisin’: Day Two – Saline
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We Go Cruisin’: Day One — Sailing
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This Was a No Dream, Becky Friday Fictioneers
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With ten uncles and aunts, I was part of a large Jewish family. Fortunately, I grew up in New York City; they, for the most part, lived in a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania. An unlikely place for a … Continue reading
Les Violins Go Cruisin’ on Their Honeymoon: Friday Fictioneers
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Two Old Humorists Feeding the Birds and Talking in the Park
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Sometimes people shut you out of their lives, and sometimes writing is a way to work it out for yourself…
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