Tag: Writing Community

  • Aaron & Annie: A Short Story About Cutting Yourself Free

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    EM Morgan

    Tonight, I sat at my desk in the front bedroom, facing North Carolina Avenue. This busy southeast D.C. neighborhood somehow seems busier on autumn evenings. From my perch, the neighbor’s walk home from the Metro or Capitol Hill. And every once in a while, I laugh at the man I…

  • Stories from a Wild Heart

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    EM Morgan

    I’m a writer. I’m a writer that doesn’t write like I dream of writing. Why? Because to do so requires me to release my hang-ups and people-pleasing tendencies. I also happened to have a day job for 13-years, that required me to act as a spokesperson and to be the…

  • I Hate the Way You Love Me

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    EM Morgan

    I hit play on my phone and Aretha Franklin’s (You Make me Feel) Like a Natural Woman, plays through my stereo console’s speakers. I pour a glass of Matthiasson’s cab and chop the vegetables I’ve just washed, for dinner. A few sips into my glass of wine, the door from…

  • Coming Home – A Short Story

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    EM Morgan

    Coming Home After the longest Friday in the history of ever, I left my office facing South Front Street and drove home – stopping at the Piggly Wiggly for my last moment of quiet for the weekend. I already know, once I pull into the driveway, all hell will break…

  • Things I Would Like to do With You – A Love Letter

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    EM Morgan

    Things I would like to do with you – a love letter . . . I would like to wake up next to you and start my day in your arms. I would like to savor the last few moments before the day begins, clinging to you. I would like…

  • Chasing Hope – A Novel About Finding Family

    Chasing Hope – A Novel About Finding Family

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    EM Morgan

    ~ One ~ Highway 306Pamlico County, NCSeptember In a stroke of sheer genius, or maybe it’s a sign of a quickly approaching mental breakdown, I left D.C. seven and a half hours ago and headed toward the coast of North Carolina, with the pain of my greatest loss, taking up…

  • He’ll Go On as if I Never Was*

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    EM Morgan

    The story is the sameDifferent characters, Different namesIt’s always the same*Reality sets inI’m reminded thatThis will never go my way.It never does.~ E.M. Morgan