CrescentDreams' published ficlets
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Daddy

I am lost in dreams of the past.
I wonder what you might think of where, who, what I am today.
I hear your voice telling me l… -
Tried to Make Pat J's Day [Make Someone's Day Challenge]

This seemed like a really neat challenge to me. I’ve been here a while but tend to lurk, and the idea of comments, prequels a…
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Something borrowed

I felt it slide – too sugary sweet, like wedding cake frosting – down my throat and grimaced.
I waited. Listening, being in…
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Stage Dressing
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Morning Message

A buzzing on the nightstand pulled me from slumber, echoing loudly against the wood. It lasted only seconds, so I burrowed de…
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Portrait of Damia
I remember her hair.
Like trapped flame, she kept the extremely straight, long orange-red strands pulled back into a pony ta…
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Lost in the Woods

Walking down the path, you’d think that a clearing was just a few steps ahead. It didn’t actually work that way.
The fog bou…
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Original Chromatic Drawing

Jesse took a deep breath, and adjusted the pencil just slightly. They were in perfect order now.
Her paper was square with t…
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The Morning After

The shifting of colors over my eyelids woke me. Golds and greens with warm orange ambers. The faint rustling sound of the lea…
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In Sight

Standing on the ridge, looking down across the valley, there was a sense of being both tiny and part of something enormous.
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If Only

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Snapshot

Standing there with the camera, watching life through the view finder, always makes it feel less real.
And yet, I can smell …

