August | 2025 | roughwighting
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I researched a lot before I began writing about psychic dreams and found out that I already knew more than most. Many don’t believe that dreams tell us the future, but I was just a 12-year-old when…| roughwighting
She stows her carry-on in the overhead compartment, then sits next to the window. Unfortunately, this is not a trip for pleasure. Nor is it for business. Stacey sits quietly, barely acknowledging t…| roughwighting
“It’s right under your nose! Can’t you tell?” Cindy asks, with obvious impatience. “Nothing is under my nose nor under anything else on my body. You’re looking for something that’s just not there,”…| roughwighting
I’d never met this doctor, so I was unprepared for his hurried and noisy entrance into the room where I had been waiting for him. It’s not called “the waiting room” for no reason. I’d been ushered …| roughwighting
I didn’t think she’d agree to it – my granddaughter. Months earlier I endured facial surgery to remove what we thought was an unexpected birthmark, which instead turned out to be skin cancer. Origi…| roughwighting
“It’s haunted, you know,” Stephen says as soon as the attorney, Mr. Richardson, reads his mother’s will. “I know,” Harriet answers a bit smugly. Stephen startles, opens his mouth as if to say somet…| roughwighting
My Summer Zen story began as a prompt to my creative writing students: “Write a story that includes the line: ‘I wish I could stay here forever.’ Each writer sunk into the memory …| roughwighting
