Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
It’s been 20 years since Virginia stepped through the battered door to her childhood home. Her mother died and the house became hers, along with a cryptic handwritten note left behind.
‘Virginia, you will love again the stranger who was your self but you must live in the house where you began.’
Six months later and the note still confounds her.
Each day, Virginia attempts to write at her mother’s desk, but no words come. It’s been two years of writer’s block hell.
After another sleepless night, she sits at the desk. Searching through drawers, she finds a leather portfolio and opens it. A sheaf of handwritten pages spill out. Her pages, notes from the first novel she attempted to write at 15. She begins to read and her words come alive on the page. And there, in that moment, she understands the note.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: I managed 144 words exactly for the dVerse Prompt!
dVerse Poets Pub: Prosery #3 Love After Love
LOVE it…but I want to read more!!!
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Haha! You know what they say- ‘always leave them wanting more’. Thanks Lillian!
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Sometimes people sound like prophets until we get that last piece of the puzzle. Hopefully her writers block has been shattered.
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Yes, one can hope! Thanks Toni.
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A story of hopefulness
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Thank you!
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Yea! This one has a more positive twist than most. How good to discover that old manuscript and take it to the limit. Nice prose. And congrats on the 144 words. I went for that, too.
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Thanks Victoria!
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Wonderful fable, Linda, that can be taken literally or as a metaphor. Well done!
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Thank you so much Lisa!
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You are welcome 🙂
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Well done, Linda, for being on target with 144 words, and thank goodness for mothers who keep everything their children ever created! My mother never kept anything, she was a tidiness addict and it was lucky I rescued a few bits and pieces before she got rid of them. I’m glad your story has a happy ending.
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Thank you Kim. I do appreciate your words.
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Good thing I always keep my old notes. The hording may one day produce gold by the sounds of it.
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Haha! Yes, me too. I have baskets full.
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Such a charming story
Happy Monday
Much❤✏❤love
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Thank you Gillena.
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A wonderful message of hope in this Linda! I love it and long for more!
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Thank you kindly.
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Well-done. Oh,that mysterious serendipity! Love how earlier writing inspires the narrator out of her block!
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Thank you Frank. This was a challenging line to use…
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Indeed!
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You’ve spun a fascinating tale of back to the beginning! Well done.
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Thank you!
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Well done, and about writing, no less!
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Yes, thank you Ken!
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Loved this
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Thank you!
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I really like the feel of this. I have kept every word I’ve ever written, on paper copies, And as documents in the Cloud, or back-up hard drive, thousands of poems, manuscripts film reviews, editorials, three unpublished novels, several screenplays. Remember, my BLACKTHORNE series came out of a second look at a 45 year old novel of mine .
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So cool Glenn. Thank you for your thoughts. I write with pencil and blank unlined paper, then computer, and I keep them all!
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intriguing write, like the feel of this!
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Thank you!
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Very mysterious, very clever. In such a short piece a story can be written. Really loved this.
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who had trouble working out what the phrase meant 🙂
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🙂
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I really love this… and maybe one day I will find one of my poems in the drive and from that there will be a novel sprung.
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Thank you Bjorn!
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Loved this! Sometimes learning is a slow process!!
xoxo
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Yes, thanks Chuck!
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you!
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Always happy to share your words with followers, Dear Linda!!
xoxo
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