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Here’s where you can find out more about my writing — Hello and welcome to my Medium profile page. You can scroll down and see more of my work here on the site — a mix of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. I write other places too, and I’m working on my first novel. If you’d like to join me on…

Fiction

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Welcome to my Profile
Welcome to my Profile

Aug 7

A Mischief of Rats

Trouble in the garden — The bunnies were cute until they began dining on my asparagus. Squirrels raided the bird feeders but they were cute and their antics fun to watch so we forgave them. A creek borders our back yard, making us a way station for all sorts of wild life. We’ve had raccoons…

Horror

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A Mischief of Rats
A Mischief of Rats

Jul 29

What Comes Back

Sometimes they never leave — The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. I was twelve years old that year, in 1972, the year Nixon went to China and his buddies broke into the Watergate hotel. Billie Jean King beat Bobbie Riggs at tennis…

Fiction

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What Comes Back
What Comes Back

Jul 16

Communion with Cornmeal

The taste of memory — I come from generations of gardeners. When we moved into our house last year, it was too late in the summer for planting. I vowed an early start in the next season. This year, however, brought mostly failed experiments with container gardening. My tomatoes grew weary in the dry heat…

Texas

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Communion with Cornmeal
Communion with Cornmeal

Published in Hinged

·Mar 19

The Lover’s Locket

When a gift is a warning — If Mina had knelt at any other gravestone, she would have missed the locket. She was working on restoring the moss-covered tombstone of Adeline Coombs. The locket lay wedged in the grass at the base of the monument, its gold chain glinting in the late afternoon sun. She eased it…

286

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The Lover’s Locket
The Lover’s Locket

Published in Hinged

·Mar 12

No Dogs Nor Humans Here

Our pain makes us who we are — I couldn’t put it off any longer. I would have to tell him the truth. That morning, while my android assistant, Arnie, ran through his usual cleaning routine, he found the dog toy under the bed. I thought he’d make the connection. Instead, his carefully composed face stayed in the…

Hinged

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No Dogs Nor Humans Here
No Dogs Nor Humans Here

Published in Hinged

·Oct 23, 2021

Charon’s Rowboat is Missing

By the time Charon realized someone had taken his rowboat, there were twenty-two souls stacked on the banks of the River Styx. “You’ll have to ferry them over somehow,” Hades, his boss, commanded. “We can’t have them backing up like that. Don’t want folks to get the wrong idea about…

Hinged

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Charon’s Rowboat is Missing
Charon’s Rowboat is Missing

Published in Hinged

·Oct 16, 2021

Bad Neighbors

Fences can’t hide all their secrets — I’ve heard it said that good fences make good neighbors. If that’s true, I suppose the opposite must be as well. Bad fences make for bad neighbors. The guy who moved in next to Miss Dianna wasted no time putting up a fence. It was chain link, cobbled together from…

Hinged

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Bad Neighbors
Bad Neighbors

Published in Hinged

·Oct 9, 2021

Heart Like a Bruise

There’s nothing as dangerous as a lover betrayed — There are five ways to tell if your boyfriend is a vampire. I can think of only three ways to tell if he’s cheating on you. First, he starts keeping secrets from you. I can’t always tell when Derrick’s lying, but I try to keep my eyes open. Like this…

Hinged

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Heart Like a Bruise
Heart Like a Bruise

Published in Hinged

·Sep 25, 2021

Long Exposure

The day before her twentieth wedding anniversary, Doreen Clark traveled alone to the Excelsior Hotel, where ghosts were rumored to roam the halls. The hotel, built in the late 1800s, had wood floors that creaked and moaned at night, as though the place were filled with spirits burdened by ghostly…

Hinged

3 min read

Long Exposure
Long Exposure
Terrye Turpin

Terrye Turpin

Find more about Terrye on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20175116.Terrye_Turpin Email: terrye.turpin@gmail.com

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