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A Beauty’s Change
Veronica Barrowcliff Chapter 1 April 17-20, 2020 The salty mist cooled my skin, which had been warmed by the beaming sun. The sun’s yellow rays disappeared from view as I refocused on my book. Palm fronds cast disfigured shadows across the crisp pages as the sunglasses I wore tinted everything around me a darker shade.…
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Connected Gusts
Veronica Barrowcliff “Well, we’ll see you later, yeah?” The wide open surroundings and the fresh air aren’t the only things that distract me. This isn’t some lyric from the music that should have taken up my attention better than this question does. It’s a quiet statement coming from a reciprocation between two pairs of deep…
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The Flow of Life
Veronica Barrowcliff “… Repeated evidence has proved that it can live on what can not revive its youth. The sea grows old in it.” ~ Marianne Moore, “The Fish” My feet stomp the ground harder than I imagined they would, sound at uneven intervals bouncing back from the path. Sometimes, I can never hear my…
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Flash Fiction (100 Words)
Veronica Barrowcliff Standing still, silently, giving myself a new perspective on the yard I grew up in. My grandma’s house. Then my mother’s. Now ours, my two sisters and I, caring for the precious building. I followed my sisters further as we headed to our unanimous ultimate spot: a small niche behind a grove of…
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Controlled Chaos: What I’m Doing
Veronica Barrowcliff Breathe. Walk: Step one, … … six, step seven Pivot one; Think Walking steps one through seven. Repeat, repeat. Fourteen footsteps back and forth, Screeching blaring in my head. Fourteen steps for Fourteen story thoughts Think thoughts you know; The thoughts you’re accustomed to For onto paper, you’ll see them: Grow, mesh; merged…
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