Tag: death

• Daily Challenge, Flash Fiction: A (Dark) Short Short

  I’m doing something different today. I’m using a prompt I found online and writing a fiction piece.   The Daily Post’s challenge today was to write Flash Fiction, a “short short,” a story less than 300 words.   I’m not a fiction writer, and you’re about to see why. BUT I wanted to post something…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  April 29, 2014

  blogging, fiction, love, writing

  death, flash fiction, nuns, short short, the daily post, writing challenge

• This Christmas

  During my freshman year of high school, we read Dandelion Wine.  I don’t remember the book very well, but I remember in the beginning, Douglas, the 12-yr old protagonist, has this revelation that he is alive. It’s this liberating, illuminating experience, and it almost takes him off-guard. He doesn’t really understand this feeling of life. In the middle/end of the book, Douglas discovers the temporary…

  Jenny Currier Shand

  December 26, 2010

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  christmas, dale, dandelion wine, death, life, love, ray bradbury, religious, winery