A challenge:
Eee – no time!
I struggle,
O, for immutable vowels…
U-turn; re-write.
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Short Story
July 18, 2016
Sparked by Words
Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt began her writing career the way so many others have done: by first doing everything else. Winning entries in grade school art, story, and essay contests convinced her to become a writer, but the real world intruded in adulthood and demanded she pay bills, raise kids, be a contributing member of the community. Along that rutted path she worked in the commercial art field designing patterns for surfer shorts, bikinis, and Hawaiian style shirts, taught after-school art through a city recreation program, and structured an art curriculum for three private schools. Ten years ago the writing muse, struggling to breathe in letters to friends and art articles, found its way to the surface. In a two-week period Shari wrote 60 pages of her first historical novel, and didn’t stop for three years. By then a second book demanded paper – OK, computer space – and now the third is in final revision stage. Of course, final revision is two words with a long shadow and a little footprint. Some folk claim they will write when the floors get vacuumed, the family accounting completed, the new garden planted. Shari is proof that all those things can be successfully ignored but not the urge to write. Her fiction explores human relationships, revenge, rage, forgiveness, redemption, and all the labyrinthine quandaries that mess up otherwise perfect lives. She resides in Southern California with her husband who’s learned to vacuum but not to cook. And the garden needs help.
Sharon Bonin-Pratt's Ink Flare 
Comments on: "Short Story" (10)
Short and ever-so sweet.
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Thank you.
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Alright, Ms. Shel Silverstein (or Ms. Ogden Nash–whichever you believe wrote Fleas: Adam Had’m), of the short short poem.
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Thanks, Jacqui – tee hee hee.
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A winner
Exactly the right length for a post!
I love you
O’s and XXXX’s
U are the best
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Hilarious you are. And lovable.
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Ha ha this made me laugh and reflected exactly how I feel today….
and um, on many days….
Peta
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It definitely came from experience. LOL. Glad you liked it, Peta.
You are in a beautiful place right now – I’ve enjojed your posts.
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You are speaking for many of us and giving us a smile in our despair.
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Do you mean the despair of rewriting? I generally like the process, but I’m considering a rather major overhaul of one of my books. So, yes, maybe despair is the correct word though it wasn’t what I had in mind when I wrote this.
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