Tag: short stories

• “The Doll House”

  As I am focusing on my novel right now, I am also inspired to send any new poems or short stories I may write to magazines. This story has a little story itself behind why I wrote it: I wrote it for my sister Jenna as a gift (a custom story surprise win someone would […]

  01/26/2023 4:58 pm

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• Mon Amour May: A Photo Mystery, Solved!

  

  —Thank you, Mr. Francesco Medici for writing to me (from Italy) about this Mystery photo post, and also clearing up who is who! From left to right: Ameen Rihani, May Ziadeh (the one I originally recognized as May by her gaze), and Samia Baroody’s husband Charles Corm, and the woman in the front holding the […]

  01/23/2023 7:44 am

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• Author Artist Kahlil Gibran Celebrates a Birthday

  

  January 6, 2023 Well, I am going next weekend to celebrate Christmas with my family in New York. I was sick with COVID on Christmas, and so was my husband—he got it first and is over it, as for testing: I am not yet but almost fully healed! We will go bearing gifts, including a […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• Newflash

  Updates started on December 26th, ‘22 The triple lines on the top of this blog pulls out into a menu that includes About, My Books (my poetry collections I’d written), poems (a selection), paintings (I feel another abstract going to be painted like a poem itself), and drawings. It had also been long that I […]

  12/26/2022 11:47 am

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• I Started Over, A New Short Story, and It’s Completed!

  But you will not read it in this post. 🙂 I was writing a secret short story as a gift to be given to someone (no one knows but me) at the upcoming Christmas gathering with my family in New York… The one I started writing the other day I was not too happy with, […]

  12/22/2022 12:36 pm

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• Compassion

  

  my Care Cat gazing at me as I was napping & feeling unwell Update: I just woke and my breathing is all normal now! I slept for a long time…as for books, I woke with a bookmark in my bed with me but no book❔😊📚🧚: I must have fallen asleep before I got one to […]

  12/21/2022 5:14 pm

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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• Bedtime Story: Raindrops

  …There are little raindrops on the window that I can hear; I have just brushed my teeth, combed my hair, washed my face, patted it dry, placed on moisturizer with my fingertips moving in little, soft circles, and I am all ready for bed. The raindrops sound more like pearls on a woman’s neck than […]

  11/28/2022 8:58 am

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• November Plans: My Own NaNoWriMo, My Art Show Booked in Advance, and Relaxation

  

  As for my plans for November, I am painting for my next Art Show, focusing on one canvas awhile: the weekend, Fri – Sun, June 2 – 4. I plan to sketch some outdoor scenes in the places I am and paint them on canvas as one idea for type of subjects. I am choosing […]

  11/01/2022 9:34 am

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• A New Writing Project Idea, Genre! and a Recent Dream

  Well, I felt today my way through mixing up and shuffling and throwing posts off the blog for too long and realizing this should just be as it is now… I’d felt Miss May letting me see kindly, look, that is enough now, hands off the blog, it is a form of fidgeting, but better […]

  10/04/2022 5:29 pm

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• Flowers These Keepsakes

  

  It is a very dim, cool Monday morning, but these flowers are all ready, each with a little story, flowers from the summer… The first I’d gotten is the little white daisy with the bright gold center that Dan gave to me on a very hot, refreshing daytime walk at a park near where we […]

  10/03/2022 11:41 am

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• A Self-Portrait & Writing by Hand

  Updates throughout, covers through Friday :D. Wednesday, and Virginia Woolf served so many cups of tea written into the short story collection Monday or Tuesday that there’s no desire left for another cup of tea for me today. From that particular set of stories, I really liked “The String Quartet” and “Kew Gardens.” Yesterday I […]

  09/29/2022 12:06 pm

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• An Unexpected Lounge

  

  reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis yesterday evening Today I am writing a short story, my first short story in awhile, an imagined one, and by in awhile, I mean the first one that I set out to write a short story intentionally. I will surround writing with yoga, sitting meditation, and self-massage. I […]

  09/23/2022 12:29 pm

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• Short Stories from Ancient Places

  The book of short stories I’ve been reading is closed and ready to return to the library, or at least it is finished for me for now…I also want to write a short story. 🙂 If you like the genre and maybe don’t always know where to look for short fiction, here is an overview […]

  09/21/2022 7:08 pm

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• A Petite Canvas: An Abstract Painting in the Making and Two Other Art Forms Calling

  I am working on a small (9 x 12) canvas for my baby nephew to display in his nursery; today is the second day I am working on it. I’ve felt most drawn to abstract art now, which is a spontaneous art for me, and I found I like it best done with a calm, […]

  09/15/2022 3:27 pm

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• “Sincerity”

  AUGUST 8, 2022 The theme to write on was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max…This one is under 500 words, prose poetry in style. Sincerity by Jade Nicole Beals “Did you get new hips?” Colbert said to me. My face appearing non-phased, I said, “No, Why do you ask?” I had just begun to […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• Two Poems of Mine Published in Indelible

  

  My two poems, “This Ring” and “Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance” are in print today in the latest issue of Indelible, an online literary and arts magazine, Issue #6, “The Feminine.” To read my two poems in Indelible, click This Ring and Other Poem, by Jade […]

  03/08/2022 7:09 am

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• Willa Cather’s Prairie Two— “May E” Writes A Long Lost Short Story

  I will share a Prairie post to come and one that leaves all suspense in the books and with just a glimpse in from my perspective, for your interest. I’ve read the first 2 from Willa Cather’s Prairie 3. As for her prose, it is wonderful, with long, very clear sentences and a style of […]

  03/05/2022 4:08 pm

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• Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra, Stories to Show You This Life as They Drift You Away

  

  Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra contains some of the finest short fiction I’ve read, a genre of which I am most selective when it comes to favorites and I don’t read often, yet these stories invite the reader in with glimmering prose poetry and curiosity about the many facets of everyday life, stories grounded in […]

  09/07/2021 4:10 pm

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• Free Book: A Haunted House Stories by Virginia Woolf

  A Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf (free online) This is one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time! The words following one after the other are seemingly random at first but they come together so clearly as you read on.  It is not a scary book, which I enjoyed […]

  11/01/2020 3:26 am

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