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Morris Dancing

Posted by Lovelyn | November 24, 2009 .

“Have you heard of Morris dancing?” my husband asked.
Curious I looked it up. Morris dancing a a type of English folk dancing in which the dancers wield sticks, swords or handkerchiefs. This description intrigued me even more so I watched a video of it on You Tube.
“See. This is your heritage,” I said to my [...]

The Taste of Travel

Posted by Lovelyn | October 13, 2009 .

My stepson likes countries. He can tell you the name of the leader of just about any country and the type of government they run. He has lots of very strong opinions about these leaders and governments.
Lately, he’s taken to naming a country and then asking if I’d like to go there. I think he [...]

The Rent–A Short Story

Posted by Lovelyn | May 22, 2009 .

I should just post this without prefacing it but I can’t help myself. I wrote this story for a contest. They wanted a story that portrayed the life of a jazz musician. I thought that seemed easy enough and wrote this silly little story. I know it has some problems, but it’s a much more [...]

Weekend Special

Posted by Lovelyn | May 5, 2009 .

My short story, “Weekend Special” was published today. You can read it on Everyday Fiction’s website.
I’d been trying to get them to publish one of my flash fiction stories forever and I was so tried of getting rejected that I sent them this story–which I think is garbage. I wrote it as an assignment for [...]

I’m Entering a Contest

Posted by Lovelyn | April 29, 2009 .

Inkwell is having a fiction contest and I have to put the first part of the story here and link back to the story on their blog. If you want to read the whole story check out the comments in this post about the contest. Here’s the first paragraph.
How could she have known that simply [...]