Rebecca_Reece's profile
AGE:
31
LOC: Port Orchard, WA
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: April 15
LOC: Port Orchard, WA
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: April 15
This is who I am: I am steadfast, loyal, and strong. I am an over-comer of adversity and pain, and an achiever of great joys! I am #5 of 7, and I enjoy my place among my siblings. God, Family, and Writing are my loves, and in that order.
I am a wife, a mom, and a wicked good cook! I am also an inventor, and I own and operate my own business on my new invention, The Gum Spa (patent pending). www.thegumspa.com
I am also a freelance writer, with my first novel, “Force of Nature,” in the editing stages. I hope to find a publisher sometime between the end of winter, and mid-spring.
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I didn't start gardening until I was 29. To be truthful, my husband started gardening when I was 29, and I became "gardening support." It all started with one sad, wilted tomato plant last spring, and ended with a freezer full of garden-fresh tomatoes, zucchini, and beans that fall. "Look!" My husband, James said. He had just come in from work, he was holding up a black, plastic pot with a wilted tomato plant that hung limply to the side. He was smiling like a twelve-year-old boy with a huge ...
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Okay, so I was known to occasionally pop a thick, sticky wad of bubble gum into my mouth after scraping it off the underside of the table at Burger King when I was a kid. There were 7 kids in my family, and gum, candy, and fun cereal was always off the menu, so that's my excuse! I cringe to realize that my son (at 4-years-old) is getting ever closer to the booger-eating-gum-scraping-anti-bathing ages. Heaven help me! He is in the bathroom humor stage already (everything is "poop," and "pee," ...
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Batting and poking in the dark at the alarm clock, Sam can't get it to stop buzzing. Tearing his eyes open, he sees the time blaring back at him in red: 12:42, not time for the alarm. The buzzing morphs into the ring of the telephone; he grabs it from the cradle. "Mmm... Hullo?" “Sam? Sam it’s me.” I said into the receiver. “Ben? It’s nearly one in the morning.” I could picture Sam eyeing the illuminated numbers on his alarm clock and blinking the sleep out of his eyes. “Yeah, sorry. I just ...
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I was early for work one morning, so I stopped in Hillsdale, a tiny community in the West hills of Portland, to get a cup of coffee. Now, I am always one to support the little guy, like, I prefer to go to the neighborhood video store, rather than the local chain, and I would just as soon drive a little farther to go to a mom and pop, rather than the "popular" store, dubbed so by the hundreds of so called "popular" people walking around all consumed in the occupation of being, well, “popular.”...
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The common belief held by most is that integrity is simply living life by the rules; whose rules, I have to wonder. For arguments sake, I will concede that, "the rules," consist of all of the rules about life (put forth by those whom I will just call society) that are innately good, and when seen living by them, people are considered (by society) to be good people. I will even go one step further to include the unwritten rules, as well as the common sense rules; that should cover them all, an...
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“Well, I don’t but the reviews say it’s really good and there’re subtitles.” Try: "It's subtitled, and the reviews say it's really good." When you get to the eviction notice, throw it in between mail, and then notice it; it's funnier that way. Throw Cosmo, or Entertainment weekly after the eviction notice. I like the "misleading" college degree, but Kerri being pretty stupid. And: “I’m being evicted, Kerri. Evicted. Now is not the time to ditch out on work.” “Party pooper.” The "pants on fire...
It fits in the box of haiku, but I don't "get" the content. Was there murder, or simply a menstrual cycle? It is either morbid or gross.
God I hope the coffee is ready. “Just a little messy.” She said to herself. This is just an example of what seems to be switching back and forth between first person and narrative. The switches cause interruption in the story, making it difficult to follow. "The beats were strong and Sarah felt her heart pounding the sound inside her." This would be better simply stated, like: Sarah's heart pounded insider her chest. And here: "She felt her heart quicken it’s pace and..." Just say: "Sarah's h...
This piece is very good. I always fear reviewing flash fiction because so few people know what it really is. I see all of the crucial elements of a complete story here. There is a conflict and a resolution. I wonder, though, what relevence does this piece have? While the story is complete, it does fall short of being entertaining. I hate saying that, because you really have done a great job of capturing the essence of flash fiction. I would ask myself (had I written this) these questions: Why...
Two words: Dave Barry! I used to religiously follow his stories in newspapers, as well as his books. Your piece is every bit as funny, and carries the same tone as his work. (If you haven't read him, or don't know who he is, you better look him up, because you may be long-lost brothers.) I really don't think that this fits as a "short story," but definitely worthy of being an article. As far as where I would like to see it: 1) Compilation book (much like Dave Barry does with his articles) if ...
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