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Short Fiction: The Cobra Crown
Sweat dampened her hair and trickled down her neck as she slung a shoulder bag across her body. The red light in the darkroom didn’t help, intensifying the heat surging through her. Urgency drove her racing pulse, and the vital importance of her mission made her clammy hands tremble. She looked at the timer, willing…
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Short Fiction: A Random Click of the Shutter
Everything in the bungalow was neat and pristine, except the photo frame. Its glass was clouded from her fingerprints, but she didn’t care. She’d taken the snap at her daughter’s wedding, miraculously capturing an unguarded moment of laughter between her husband and her daughter. A random click of the shutter became the treasured image of…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: P is for Photograph
I’d like you to write something – story, poem, or just a little piece of writing – sparked off by a photograph. Is it in colour, or black and white? Formal, like a portrait photo, or more of a snap? Where’s this photo come from? Is it known to you or not? Have you found…