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Submitted to Contest #293
A Story byJudith Jones-Ambrosini The Orchid ManIt happened on the day that my Polish cousin Sophie and I were the only ones waiting for a train in the Moreton-in-Marsh station in rural England. We spotted an elderly gent approaching the station. He was dressed in a time worn tweed jacket a bit too large for his slight frame. His trousers were a tweak too short. He walked quickly reminding us of the white rabbit character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland who was always late. “I’m late I’m late for a very important date.” Sop...
Submitted to Contest #283
A Christmas Memory I began paging through my time worn Christmas Cookies notebook to decide on which cookies to make. That’s when I came across Signora Cinque’s pignoli cookie recipe. I smiled as I recalled the Christmas memory that always warms my heart. Although it occurred some forty years ago it will always seem like it happened yesterday. It was when I lived in Positano, an enchanting village on Italy’s Amalfi coast. At that time Positano was a quiet hamlet nestled along the coast. Neighbors knew each other and ve...
Submitted to Contest #270
Judith Jones-Ambrosinijonesmagee@optonline.netFrom Truths, Travels & Fiction story collection50 CARROT CAKESIt was rich and fabulously delicious. It was mysterious. It was the dessert my friend brought to a dinner party at my tiny Greenwich Village apartment in 1975. At that time cheese cake was all the rage. But THIS was a carrot cake. These words had not yet whisked their way into a baker’s lexicon. I asked my dear friend what was in this so called ‘carrot cake” She replied … Oh, carr...
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