she never had cash--she worked on the barter system.
food for housework, clothes for watching children, a car for sex.
don't call her a prostitute...call her a wife.
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- quin browne
- new orleans remains my heart, my hometown, my culture; new york is my lover, london my dream. "the young quin had dreamed of a life where she was actively loved and only occasionally ignored"
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prompt, publish and peruse
- a story in 25 words
- a story in six words~smith magazine online
- biographies and such
- carry on tuesday flash ficiton
- cormac brown's flash fiction friday
- danse macabre
- disenthralled 'zine
- enchanted coversation
- fiction friday
- fiction in 140 characters
- friday flash
- friday flash fiction
- full of crow~short stories
- glossolalia flash
- lyrical passion e-zine
- monthly prompts by cormac and nic
- one sentence to tell a true story
- post-apocalyptic publishing
- right hand pointing~100 words or less
- scottish poetry review
- significant objects
- six sentences
- sunday scribblings
- three word wednesday
- where your work has a second chance
writers and artists i admire
- books and bookshelves
- christian bell
- cormac brown (my brother by another family)
- david barber
- eldritch way
- jelena
- john wiswell
- julie buffaloe~poet
- katie~playwright, director, and writer
- kristen forquet-photos
- michael brown (no relation)
- miss alister
- richard godwin
- sarah bloom-photography
- shadows
- shannon kennedy
- soul crayons
- surgebin
- thom
- vesper
- walt conley
- walt conley-II
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- snow again.weary of the cold,shoveling and the stench of drying socks, bess dreamed of a sunny vacation with her own cabana boy, and sighed.
- monica went from blood bank to fertility clinic to wigmaker, selling parts of herself to save for a facelift she felt would make her perfect
- not knowing how to say goodbye, she deleted email addresses,profiles-- created a new persona. the internet made it easy to disappear.
- the boudreau family watched the news and the situation in haiti; pleased help was offered--forgiving all for ignoring them after katrina.
- meg wove through piles of junk, past stacks of paper, then sat to watch 'horders'. those poor people were crazy--she was a collector.
- as dee paid for her cigarettes, this woman in line announced, "those cause cancer!" dee blinked, then said, "already got it."
- grabbing a kleenex to catch a sneeze and wipe her nose, jill knew if she were flemmish, she'd insist the world use a different name for snot
- rose rode the thrill train of her big promotion after a year of 70 hr weeks from the office to the front door of her now empty house.
- faced with a dry christmas tree, torn wrapping paper and empty boxes, rose used a match to start the fire. it was easier than cleaning.
- she stumbled through life, losing jobs, destroying relationships, deleting friends. never learning, she always blamed others for her pain.
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awesome!
ReplyDeleteHeh-heh-heh...
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteNice miniature, quin. Never a wasted word.
ReplyDeleteRight, that's just about what it boils down to. That's not liberalism. That's imprisonment.
ReplyDelete:-) Nice one Quinn.
ReplyDelete...and likewise your ability to do social commentary with nary a batted eye. It's great reading your stuff again.
ReplyDeleteWhoosh!
ReplyDeleteLove how short and real this is. Made me laugh.
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