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Short Stories/Creative Writing

Night Watches

October 24, 2022
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My Poetry, Writings

Running in and out of rooms during the night watches Unforeseen sleep-walking as I glance at the clock A little alka-seltzer and I grab a pen to jot thinking thot My fingers stiff during night watches where I recall yesteryears while thinking in darkness of the new day about to dawn I reach for Marley and rouse him and he gets to work licking his fur I roll overand find a new, comfortable recline Only in this darkness do I...

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Freely Emotional, Distorted and Intentionally Child-like Illustrations

October 10, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In the process of working here and there on written out expressions of various life stories, going back to my first one done in 2006 called Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child, I continue to illustrate various parts in a very spontaneous (few preliminary pencil details, just enough to put on the marker) and loose style. My goal in these is first speed (I work these in as some type of reward in between doing commissioned watercolor – a...

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What Does That Even Mean?

August 22, 2022
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My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

What does it mean to walk in the truth? I am sure each of us might answer that differently. Rather than my stating what I believe it means to walk in the truth, I think thoughts about fruits that cannot but be understood as anything other than the antithesis of walking in the truth. I think of times I have not walked in the truth. I think of God’s mercy and gentle fetching back of me and those who wander...

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Finding Ourselves in the Story: Lamentations Style Poetry

August 16, 2022
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My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Tonight as I reflect upon the various aspects of my difficult day, after difficult yesterday and the difficult day before and the day before and the days before those days feel difficult and I anticipate tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after tomorrow and all the days that will follow those will likely be…difficult…I think of three particular things. The first thing I think on is how diamonds are formed under a slow, constant...

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The Words Which Were Actually Spoken…

August 14, 2022
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Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

On any given day, I have a lot of words in my mind of all sorts. On any given day, I take in a lot of words from external sources. On any given day, I output a lot of words, more or less…in various ways, for better or worse. During the past year or more, I seem to be taking more note of the full moon and various related things that seem to come my way during this time. While...

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I’m Being Supervised by a CAT – and He’s Forcing Me to Think Dystopian Thoughts!

August 13, 2022
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Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Writings

True Story! This afternoon I tried to reach Verizon. First, by using a number I taped awhile back to my computer, with reminder to just keep hitting “O.” In recent years, this number doesn’t work right. I Googled “Verizon customer service number.” Got it. Called 3 different times. First round, I kept hitting “O” and refusing to comply with the hedgehogs. I think I did get to choose something reasonable, but I must have hit the wrong prompt and got...

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The Mirror: A Short Story Written in 2005

August 8, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, 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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Not Afraid of Sixes, Opening a Fortune Cookie in Buckhannon, WV…or Painting a Black Cat into My “Masterpiece!”

August 8, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

On this Sunday afternoon, as I try to navigate through the muck, devastations and other aftermath of what most rational people might term a serious string of bad luck – that my neighbor, acutely aware of the various sequences of my seeming bad luck, especially with vehicles, that I’ve endured here over the past two years, actually agreed with me the other night on the phone, using a different word that though I’ve heard before, is not in my typical...

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I Think Jesus is in Love With Me!!!

August 5, 2022
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Yes, Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so! I do believe He’s in love with me…and…He’s in love with you all, too! And I’m not even jealous!!! Did you know that Jesus walks around in my field with me here? He does!!! We walk and talk as good friends should and do! We hold hands and laugh together – it’s so loud it scares my chickens! Jesus and I walk through lots of colors! He...

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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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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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