They were old, they had entered those years when nothing ever happens except falls, illness, approaching disability, and neither of them had planned on that when they married, when the children were born, and then the grandchildren. … →
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Best New Ending Wins a Signed Copy of Mending: New and Selected Stories! … →
I’m opening this up to you, my readers-write your own ending to the following short story and submit it via the contact form on my website. I’ll pick my favorite and the winner will also be published on my website. Entries are due on November 18. Good luck! Sallie … →
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It was the baby’s first snow. He was six months old that winter, a lovely baby, the apple of his young parents’ eyes. They would have other children, with other spouses, but he would always be the first. In the old farmhouse that backs the scene, which belonged to his father’s family, there is a narrow dark room … →
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She was the kind of woman who said now you can have everything and then took it back. … →
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Once when I was seven, I saw my mother on her hands and knees in a bed of snowdrops. Not beside it. In it. The snowdrops were in the backyard of the house we grew up in, on the Upper East Side, in New York. That neighborhood, just south of the 96th Street divide, was cheap, then, with dilapidated … →
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At the edge of the grassy terrace, in the shade of a big umbrella, the painter stands at his easel, tipping his brush into little pools of color. At the table under the umbrella, the writer sighs, opening her notebook. All the other people who are staying in the rented house– Americans, middle-aged, connected to the arts … →
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Write your own ending to my short story, “The Floating World”, and win a signed copy of my latest book, Mending: New and Selected Stories — your ending will also be published here, on my website. This contest ends on February 29.
Congratulations to Ramie Streng, author of my favorite ending to “Old,” winner of the December/January contest!
Your copy of Mending is on its way!
