I wrote this story for Round 8 of SPARK. To see the photograph that inspired it, go to http://www.getsparked.org/spark8/helen-whittaker-and-edite-haberman This story won second place in the June 2010 Global Short Story Competition at http://www.globalshortstories.net/index.html The trouble with Adam I’m waiting in the reception area at Happy Bunnies day care. In one corner of the room [...]
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Hot off the press: the piece I’ve just written for SPARK – a quarterly collaborative project in which artists and writers rub sparks off each other. The story was written in response to a photograph by Jim Doran. Check out Jim’s piece Ancestor Moon which he created after reading my poem Eclipse. I LOVE it! [...]
Why Mike cheated at ‘Happy Families’
Whenever his opponent asked for a card, Mike claimed he didn’t have it, even if he did. Before long, Mike had won the game. If you were going to cheat just once in your life, thought Mike, indulging in a self-satisfied smile, who better to do it against than Death? © Helen Whittaker http://theduckside.com First [...]
