TatianaMik's published ficlets
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Carminic acid
“Hi, I’m Carmine.” He flashed a grin at the woman before him.
She smiled back. “Carmine. Made from Carminic acid. It’s used …
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Grandma's prediction
His grandmother had predicted every grandchild’s meeting of their true love. His cousin Larry had met his wife in college jus…
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Italian grandmothers
Very few things scared her. As a critical care nurse she dealt with life and death everyday. But a 5 foot nothing little old …
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Going gentle into that goodnight
It was hard watching someone you love’s family die. She accepted the death that was coming. Her husband’s grandmother. The fi…
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Opposites
She facinated him.
Sweet one second, full of sass another.
She could stand up.
She could melt down.
Someone could be dyin…
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Skinny Dipping
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Thoughts while waiting
He stood waiting for her to deplane. He didn’t think he was this nervous her first trip to his place, but then again he hadn’...
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Magic
It was like watching Sesame Street again. He missed those simple times when Big Bird was real and everyone thought Mr. Snuf…
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Air
She always wanted to write It was a dark and stormy night. But this was not what she had planned. She had a nice thundersto…
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Spire
The cold spire jutted into the night. She wasn’t used to such sights. She was used to landscape, greenery, mountains. Not col…
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Looking for love
He wrapped his arm around her in her sleep. She had no idea how much she meant to him. He’d been searching for his one true l…
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Random Ramblings...
Why do I feel like I am always rambling uncontrollably? I have nothing to say. No story to tell. I’m writing nothing about no…
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Writing
I want to write something today, I don’t know what. Why do I feel the urge to write without knowing what to write about, I ha…
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Fathers, brothers, husbands and friends
He took a look at those faces. Faces that stay with him for an eternity.
Though they had called i a war machine, the army wa…
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Sick, Part 8
When they touched down at RAF Northolt there was a emergency medical team waiting on the tarmac. Rachel gave report in the su…
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We need a new IV
“Can you get an IV up on 5 East?” my charge nurse asked me.
“I can try,” I replied. I am not the world’s best IV nurse by an…
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Insomnia
“Why aren’t you asleep?“ Peter asked coming through the door from a rehearsal that ran late.
“Can’t. The nightmares are righ…
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Sick, Part 7
“I’m not saying I don’t have prejudices because everyone has them in some form or another. I try my best not to let labels do…
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Sick, Part 6
Right now, you need a nurse who knows how to care for the critically ill. And right now I appear to be the only one in countr…
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Sick, Part 5
As luck would have it when Antoine pulled in front of the British consulate just before she ran out of dopamine. The Scotsman…
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