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Weekly Contest #324
WRITING PROMPTS #473 Sail Away Navigating Unchartered Waters Jill D. Abell birches73@gmail,com SOMETIMES IT TAKES A WAVE TO KNOCK YOU DOWN I slowly circled the twenty-nine desks, each one properly positioned by a large X precisely marked on the floor. I breathed in the lingering scent of dry-erase markers with satisfaction. I glanced at my watch. Six more minutes and twenty-nine 10th grade students would occupy these desks, eager to start the new school year. That’s right. My students. For weeks, I had been meticulously preparing for thi...
Weekly Contest #120
I was never one who understood the appeal of the road less traveled. I had no interest in bouncing along an unknown pitted path, dust and gravel spewing in every direction, in search of some precarious destination. The allure of maneuvering through traffic on crumbling asphalt aligned by familiar street signs was more in keeping with my then very conventional and younger self. Now, however, with my sixtieth year within wrinkled arm’s reach, I made a startling and unexpected U-turn from my predictable past. Having recently moved to Richmond,...
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