Throwback Thursday

Hello, and welcome back to another look at my early work. I’m continuing on with the short stories for now and here’s the next one.

The year following my first short story success with Two Shorts and a Snort, the same writer’s group held another competition. This time, I wrote three separate short stories. Here’s the first one:

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As with a lot of my story ideas, this one came from a song. Maybe you remember Bobbie Gentry singing Fancy, or perhaps the Reba McIntire remake years later.

At any rate, I heard lots more of a story in this song than the 3 minutes of lyrics, so decided to go with it. The result was Jewel. You’ll find many similarities between the story and the song, and many things different. As with any idea, we have to make it our own when creating something new. Often that is challenging because of what we have stuck in our minds.

The old saying, “there’s nothing new under the sun” comes to mind, but I beg to disagree. Anytime we create something from our own perspective, it’s new. We’re creating something we’ve never attempted before and it’s uniquely ours. So while the theme may be old, when we put our spin on it, it becomes new. At least, that’s my opinion.

I just realized I never made a book trailer for this story, but here’s the blurb:

For almost eighteen years, Jewel has known little beyond hopelessness and hunger.

Barely existing in a ramshackle cabin, on the edge of a Louisiana swamp with her little sister and their mother, she sees no way to stop the downward spiral.

When her mother falls gravely ill, Jewel learns that her life is about to take a drastic turn.

But will it lead to joy or more devastation?


Take a heart-warming journey with Jewel as she struggles to rise from the clutches of poverty and shame.

This is a short read at only 26 pages, but I hope you’ll find it interesting enough to grab it. Thanks for stopping by!

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