Tag: Trick

Bringing Him Home #SixSentenceStoryThursdayLinkUp #Excerpts #WritingPrompts

Two weeks after I moved into the new house, Jim and Fred arrived to start the renovations. Fortunately, most of the construction took place in Bill’s bathroom and outside the kitchen entrance where the ramp was built, and it only took them two weeks to complete the project. Meanwhile, Laura helped me order the equipment we needed, most of which was paid for by Medicare. Besides the commode and recliner, we got a wheelchair, shower bench, and a gait belt that I would fasten around his waist to make transferring him easier. We arranged for home health care aides to give Bill a shower three days a week, since that was one thing Laura thought would be tricky for me because of my low vision. Although Bill and I would have loved taking showers together, I agreed with her.

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Today, my late husband will have been gone thirteen years. I’m sharing the above excerpt from My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds in his loving memory. As always, thanks to GirlieOnTheEdge for inspiring this piece with this week’s six-sentence prompt, in which the given word is “trick.” If you’d like to write your own six-sentence story using this word or a variation of it, you can share it in the comments or click here to join the fun and read other six-sentence creations. As always, thank you for stopping by.

 


Abbie wears a blue and white V-neck top with different shades of blue from sky to navy that swirl together with the white. She has short, brown hair and rosy cheeks and smiles at the camera against a black background.

Photo Courtesy of Tess Anderson Photography

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by Two Pentacles Publishing

 

New! Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories

Copyright 2025 by Abbie Johnson Taylor

Published independently with the help of DLD Books.

 

The scene shows an isolated barn off to the right in a snowy field, probably shortly after sunset. The foreground is a mixture of white, blue, and brown shades. Behind the barn is a line of dense, dark trees, many of them evergreens. The sky is the pink one sometimes sees at sunset, and a full moon hangs above the treetops to the left. The title is in plain black letters against the sky with a white glow behind them. The author’s name is in white letters near the bottom of the cover.

Image Description written by Leonore Dvorkin of DLD Books.

 

As defined in the first story, living vicariously means living your life through someone else’s. You’re invited to live vicariously through the lives of the people in these stories. There’s the lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun. A college student identifies with a character in a play. A young woman loses her mother and finds her father. And a high school student’s prudish English teacher strenuously objects to a single word in her paper.

In Wyoming, as in any other state, people fall in love, and sometimes relationships are shattered. Accidents, domestic violence, prejudice, and crimes all occur. Lives are torn apart, and people are reunited. Ordinary people deal with everyday and not–so–everyday situations.

The 25 stories in this collection, most of which are set in Wyoming, are about how the various characters resolve their conflicts—or not.

 

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