Archive for July 2006

Folding Corners

Posted to Stories on the topic of Compulsions on 19 July 2006, with 4 comments so far.

>>The Prompt: Compulsions
I do this thing my friends call “folding corners.” I didn’t name it. It’s when I take a piece of fabric, usually the edge of a sleeve or that lovely little stitching right where a zipper is sewn on to the coat, or maybe even, OK, I’ll take the tip of the collar […]

Cakes

Posted to Stories on the topic of Compulsions on 9 July 2006, with 2 comments so far.

>>The prompt: Compulsions
I had a breakdown once. Years ago — when my wife and I were hooked on heroin. My mom would call once a week to check in, and I’d tell her these stupid lies about how the experimental stream-of-conscious novel I was working on was generating a lot of interest. She’d […]

Dawne, 22, Tacoma

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 9 July 2006, with no comments so far.

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography
A woman can only stay on the pill for five years before doctors caution she may be causing damage to her body. So five years after my mother had my brother, seven years after she had my sister, her clock was up and I was born in Inglewood, California. The morning I […]

Bob, 26, Ithaca

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 7 July 2006, with 1 comment so far.

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography
Born to parents, grew up with childhood, check, we’ve seen that, but it was different for me, I once ate a very good apple indeed and went to the circus and saw the Beach Boys sing California Girls and someone gave me a bearskin rug with buttons for eyes, but later on […]