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amelia bartlett

@ameliabartlett

daily writer + explorer | renovating an appalachian abode | getting humbled at least once daily

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Jan 26, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

More Than a Facelift ~ Flash Fiction | Five Minute Freewrite

“Oh my god, what have you done to yourself?” Shuffling her feet, absentmindedly, “I got a facelift.” She turns away, twirling the tassel on her keys around her pointer finger. “You’re unrecognizable.…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Jan 6, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

Time Capsule in a Hatbox ~ Short Story | 5 Minute Freewrite

Watching my life packed into boxes has been less nauseating than I expected, but there’s still the attic to tackle. Where there was artwork next to vining plants and tchotchkes from my years of trave…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Jan 4, 2020, 3:16 PM UTC

Stranger than Fiction ~ Flash Fiction | 5 Minute Freewrite

The file arrived on my desk at 4:50 pm on a Friday. Remains of my fourth cup of coffee lay like sludge in the styrofoam cup on my desk, their rancid smell urging me to peel out early if I could go un…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Feb 19, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

What I See in Her Eyes | Freewrite ~ Flash Fiction

Twelve white coats stand awkwardly in a semicircle in a yellow-tinged, windowless room. Some have a clipboard, upon which few scribble wildly, while others tuck the accessory under their arm and rock…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Sep 9, 2018, 6:13 PM UTC

Life Update from the Slow Rolling Home

It's been five months since we authored and published a post on this blog. Around the time of our last update, we were preparing to move our half-finished bus to a new parking spot and to move into i…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Aug 22, 2018, 1:39 PM UTC

So You Never Miss a Moment | Freewrite ~ Flash Fiction

### "And then what happened?" "Then, the waves that once glinted began to still, eerily so. The water itself began to move inward, on itself, as if something from the deep were sucking down the surfa…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Aug 21, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

Keep Showing Up • the Results Will Come in Time

I ran into a friend from my hometown who has recently moved near to where I live. We hadn’t talked very many times when we lived in the same city, but the times we had were always memorable, even pow…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Jul 26, 2018, 2:51 PM UTC

I Am But a Seed, an original poem

Aimless, waltzing on wind I am but a seed Waiting to begin Grassy expanse beneath the heartbeat wings Carrying me "Let me go, I say" right here is the Perfect place I am but a seed inside me there Ar…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Jul 25, 2018, 2:39 AM UTC

All Brick All Day, TMAX 100 • Part 1 | Story Behind the Shot

My favorite university house in the history Fort in Knoxville, just beside UT. Most likely horrific and destroyed by college students inside. ### Shooting TMAX 100 • 35mm with a 1976 Canon AE-1 I'm f…

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amelia bartlett
@ameliabartlett Jul 24, 2018, 1:31 AM UTC

Look at that Chick | Story Behind the Shot

At nineteen, I thought it would be a brilliant life choice to become a hen mother to twelve chicks. Chicks that would eventually grow into noisy, egg-laying, escape artists. This little one, whose na…

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