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“Rescue Me”, Guest Blog: Jamie Parker

Through the What Would Emma Pillsbury Wear? blog I discovered a great new voice in the blogging world, Mrs. Jamie Parker. Her posts are chipper and upbeat, without fail. She writes about clothes in ways that fill me with nostalgia and joy. She touches on the aspects of clothes that bring out emotion and self-expression. She also tells sweet, lovely stories, like the one that she is sharing with us here today. This is a story that is part of a collection that she’s putting together into a book. Get more of her cheerful attitude at http://ilookgoodtoday-jamie.blogspot.com/ “Rescue Me!” As I was signing in for a doctor’s appointment, suddenly half of the building went black. It was raining outside and, in typical Florida fashion, power outages were...

Romantic Friday Writers: Challenge “Surrender”

http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. I thought I would participate occasionally. Today’s theme was “surrender.” My entry is a 400 word excerpt of a WIP (work-in-progress) that will be going into my Dev Dreams: Volume Two. *** There are relatives everywhere and no matter which way I turn I can feel the glare from my mother, her eyes continually trying to remind me of her edict: act normal. Even though we are supposedly here to welcome Matt home, no one is paying much attention to him. They are trying so hard to pretend nothing has changed. Uncle Seth has the grill open, but he’s having trouble turning it on. Aunt Kathy and my...

The Trouble With Cure

What’s wrong with cure? Isn’t it a good thing when people get better? In fiction, I say no. Not usually. Here’s the trouble with the typical “cure” plot line (the usual formula of stories with disabled characters, where at the last minute they are somehow cured of the disability). Well, actually, there are a few problems so I’ll break them down: 1) Not realistic. Sometimes people do recover from disabling accidents. Sometimes doctors can fix things, sometimes treatments work. That’s great! But it’s rare. Very, very unlikely. If you go by Hollywood, you would think that sort of thing happens all the time. In fact, they make it seem like people who are disabled just haven’t tried hard enough; with enough...