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Illustrated Short Stories

Eating KFC and a Front Row Seat

October 30, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I feel like I must have told this story a thousand times in my life. And often, in my younger years, in a fast-paced comic style as though I were recounting a freak show that I had the amusement of watching. Indeed, it is probably the first of many life stories that take on an almost rehearsed recounting of the highlights of this day, evening and the many days, months and years that would follow and be influenced (in my...

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The Mirror: A Short Story Written in 2005

August 8, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(Preface: This story was written in the fall of 2005 and dealt with both the death of my first marriage covenant and the death of my mother, originally written in an intertwined rumination of sorts. It was written in a free-association and free-form style, actually in one single evening, from a friend’s beach house where I went alone with a key, to pore through the paperwork involved in filing for divorce through a simple mediated process where we worked out...

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And Then ‘Imagination’ Jesus Said to Me, “Make Ready Your Dancing Shoes, Grandmom!”

July 27, 2022
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Feral Thoughts, Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was painting this afternoon, finally, for a good block of time. I’ve been really distracted by so much, recently. As I listened to music, painted and thought about various things, I was wondering to myself…how, if or when might I even hear or know when my youngest son’s twins are born – my grandbabies – since he has decided to have no contact with me. I got to thinking about a story a dear older friend told me. More...

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Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child

July 20, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

by Eileen Slifer An Illustrated Short Story Written February 4, 2006 based on recollections of a true event “Life is like a movie in which you get to play the part in a scene just once, experiencing the sequence of events with all its sights, sounds, and subtleties in moments of time, leaving you nothing but mental and emotional replay for years to come.” That I was a particularly clever or devious child I would not describe myself as such....

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I Wish I Had Never Conceived You

July 13, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was standing in my mother’s kitchen, in my childhood home. I was in the same kitchen where my father had stood over the sink six years earlier on a Friday evening in early May, arguing with my mother, while having a heart attack. I was trying to get past my mother and out the back door, and she stood on the step or two between the kitchen and the back door landing. She was holding the wrought-iron railing and...

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Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothin’ Left to Lose

June 10, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

A friend and I have been working toward a joint creative pursuit. This is a sneak-peak at some artwork that will be used in part of this project. I started this last Friday. Some days, a song will come on Spotify and just hit some personal or creative sweetspot. It can be of any genre. That day, it was Janis Joplin’s Me and Bobby McGee. I ended up putting it on loop for several days, and even tonight finished up...

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Creative Solitude, Processes and Writing Challenges

May 27, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(written 12/17/21 to 5/27/22) There’s an old film with Tom Hanks called Castaway. In the film, he is a lost sole survivor from a plane crash who finds himself alone for a lengthy time on an uninhabited island. Since this film only has a few actors other than Tom Hanks himself, I wonder whether the budget was as significant as other films in which he starred as the main character. In this story, to keep himself engaged, he is resourceful...

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Awkward Smalltalk with Thomas, Richard, Harold, and His Brother, Frank, and Her Marriages to George, and John

May 27, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Writings

By Jane Jones Written December 17, 2021 to January 24, 2022 Beginning her writing career at age nine, Jane presented her mother with some Haiku-ish type of assignment containing intentional literary form and meter, upon returning from school one afternoon. LIFE WhAT IS LIFE? LIFE IS TO STUDY, TO WORK, TO PLAY, LIFE IS TO BE YELLED AT, AND HATED BY OTHERS. LIFE IS toRture. BY JANE JONES Jane’s mother read the poem aloud over and over, with various inflections...

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My Frozen Father

May 11, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Some stories are birthed in pitch black darkness. They are the writings of a lunatic under a full moon that reflects no light because the sun has vanquished. They are the recollections of unexpressed howling during a full eclipse of the sun at midnight. To some, they are inconsequential retrospective ramblings of an aging woman who would do well to stop thinking back on that long ago May day… To others, this is a story of intrigue and resilience. Looking...

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Vincent and the Instagram Influencer

April 29, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Writings

(a creative illustrated short story written 3/30/22 to 4/27/22) © Eileen Slifer, 2022 Dear Theo: You are never going to believe this but last night I was visited by someone from the future. She came from New York City in the Americas and she was dressed in such a fashion as to appear so ghastly and oddly cloaked, I thought she might be a phantom of some sort, so to be sure, I downed me some good absinthe before talking...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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