The Mother Centurion: short story submission

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I am Here; Are You?

Hello my friends. If I have any left that is. July 2011, seems an eternity ago and now I found the inspiration and time to make a quick pitch to anyone out there who still may check in once in a while. Well.. what has been happening?

I dedicated myself to some serious writing and it did pay off. I got an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest 80th Annual Writing Competition. My category was heavily attended (Short Story Lit/Mainstream) with over 5000 entries I believe (or best estimate). I got 43 out of top 100 for a fictional short story titled, A Moment for Rosalie. "Ya shoulda seen my face when I opened the e-mail." Better yet, you should have seen the little jig I danced around the house like a spastic cheerleader on Red Bull.

I am now heading to the ASU Virginia Piper's Desert Nights Rising Stars Writer's Conference, just a few weeks away. Last year I blogged about my experience and if you care to check in to see what I learn, please check back. This year I made the big leap to the "Master's Class" and have submitted 20 pages of my non-fiction, A Mother's Purpose, for review by a published author and 11 other aspiring memoirists. This should be fun and I hope to take all I can from having several writers read and critique my work.

I also have entered the Writer Mag's Memoir contest, soon to be announced March 1 or shortly thereafter. I have to say, I get a real kick out of entering contests. If you have never entered one, do your research, enter a quality one with a long standing. Polish up your work and take the leap. I find it very therapeutic in a "writerly" sort of way.

I am glad to be back. Please follow, please comment. I love to hear back from you and above all, if you have a blog/story to share, do so here. I am also a member of She Writes but just cannot get the darn logo to attach!!!!

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Phase I to Short Story Submission

As our first deadline approached and minutes clicked away to April 8, I luckily was sucked up into a whirlwind of inspirational story spinning. I spent approximately 3 or 4 days absorbed and consumed and as a result placed several black letters on ivory paper. Life of course caused a major “writus interuptus” and it has been several days since I was in that zone. My piece has sat but I made the Phase I of our joint deadline submission to have; plot, character, POV.

Big breath in ………. And out………. So here it goes;

The story takes place in a stairwell in a 12 story tenement in Redding, a small town, in 1958. The main character, Rosalie is 47 years old in search of her first son, Jack, whom she has traced to an apartment on the 8^th floor. Rosalie is a very strong woman in spirit and will and has survived a hard life on a rural farm, raising 7 other children. Widowed in the last several years, she took on a career as an in-home nurse in her rural community to support her family and farm. She was raised by an indifferent father and an abusive mother, Ruth, who made Rosalie give up her first son. Another supplemental character to Rosalie is her Aunt Addie, who gives Rosalie hope and survival skills to handle an abusive mother intent on “ridding” Rosalie of her first son.

In Rosalie’s climb to meet her adult son for the first time, she encounters a man who provides for her the will to continue and see the hope in her conquest; one she takes with much anxiety and fear.

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