MissMeliss: Escribition

The winners of Kelley Armstrong’s short story contest have been posted. I didn’t win, but I’m glad I entered, because she’s promised feedback to all who did.
For the record, I’m not disappointed – it was a worthwhile exercise. I’m also not surprised. The winning entries are all much more overtly otherworldly (I’m not sure, but [...]

It’s that time again: the folks at FunJunkie are hosting Summer Burn 2005, in which people from around the world burn two copies of their favorite summer playlist, and send them off to the random people the host provides.
It’s a great way to get new music, and it’s sort of fun.
(Registrations close 21 June 05).

Somewhat ironically, even though I’m trying to cut our expenses by eating at home more (we eat out far too often), I have been buying bread from Panera instead of the grocery store, and it’s more expensive than our usual Orowheat 12-grain, but it’s also fresher, and the loaves are larger. Plus it makes me [...]

My sleep cycle is completely confused – it began last week, when I had a horrible cold, and was exacerbated this weekend by the lack of a schedule, and reacting to Fuzzy’s odd on-call hours – the dogs don’t settle into sleep when he’s awake at odd hours, and their wakefulness translates into MY wakefulness, [...]

As a little girl, one of my favorite words was bedraggled, because even though it isn’t truly onomatopoeic, it conjurs a perfect image of its definition: wet, limp, dishevelled.
I mention this because I spent last Monday afternoon feeling like the picture-dictionary definition of that word.
Our pool filter was havng a problem, so we called our [...]

MissMeliss regrets to inform her friends and readers that she is feeling crabby and anti-social today, and is suffering from a summer spring cold. She apologizes for abruptly disappearing from various IM windows.
When she feels better, she will be posting more flash-fiction, and the incredible tale of her battle with the Pool Vacuum of Doom [...]

I went to bed at midnight, and I should still be tired, because it’s only 5:27 AM, but we took a long nap after church, yesterday so I’m actually pretty well rested.
The tradition at our church, we learned yesterday, is that the choir doesn’t sing over the summer – a notion I understand but don’t [...]

I say… And you think…?

Heimlich:: maneuver

Gesture:: noble

Party:: line

Cuddle:: muffin

Room with a view:: Room of one’s own

Sebastian:: PDQ

Ooooh:: la-la

Sigh:: breath

Two fish, three fish:: ugh

Cake or death:: the bastard love-child of Marie Antoinette and Patrick Henry

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…taking your dogs for a walk on a sultry spring evening, and watching them roll in the grass for the sheer pleasure of it.
…smiling up at the moon when you walk – the glorious peach-colored full moon.
…waving to your neighbors, and meeting their dogs, as you pass them on THEIR walk.
…coming home to notice that [...]

A writing challenge courtesy of Tales from the Ridge: 300 words with the title “Disembodied Voices”
She was in bed, with the covers pulled up to her chin and her tiny hands clenched into white-knuckled fists around the sheets. Around the perimeter of her bed, an army of stuffed animals stood guard over her, making sure [...]