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Category: My Stories

  • I Just Really Love Cold Water

    I Just Really Love Cold Water

    Before anything else, I’d just like to say I want to cancel my subscription to 2021. I’ve experienced the seven-day free trial and I’m not interested. Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22252 – 776: Here’s the haps: As I have been thinking about this memoir project and trying to decide what to…

  • A New Word I learned Today

    A New Word I learned Today

    Herb’s Blog Herbdate 22130 – 701: Today I was visiting Yvonne’s blog, Hello World where she often receives a shopping list and imagines things about the person or the list. She does other posts as well and also, apparently, writes books, which I hadn’t known until today. Her entry today…

  • Place Your Fingers On The Home Keys Homeboy

    Place Your Fingers On The Home Keys Homeboy

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22122-693: A re-written piece from Jan 14, 09 Herbdate 17876: He sat staring at the blank screen the way the old-timers had stared at a blank sheet of paper in a typewriter. He couldn’t move. Paralyzed by depression and fear of rejection he minimized the word processing…

  • Even Steven

    Even Steven

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22119-690: I had written this originally in January of ’09 but I don’t think I ever posted it until December of 2019, before the advent of Covid-19. The character of Steven is loosely based on my personality, but I have never pummeled someone in the grocery store,…

  • Dave Gets What He Deserves – Rewrite-Repost

    Dave Gets What He Deserves – Rewrite-Repost

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22117-688:I had originally posted this last year on September 19, 2019, which would have been Herbdate 21778. I don’t know the original number. That had been a total rewrite of a piece that never saw the light of day but was in the ’09 folder. When I…

  • Curly 1-13-09

    Curly 1-13-09

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22114-685: Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 17875 aka 01/13/2009:Here we have another story I had written and forgot about. It hasn’t seen the light of day since January 2009. 1/13/09: I handed “The Writer’s Book of Matches” to Margaret and asked her to pick…

  • Missing Something – A Blast From The Past

    Missing Something – A Blast From The Past

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22108-679: Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 17879 aka 01/16/2009: Missing Something Today’s prompt is from Herb’s book of real-life experiences: “A wannabe writer with a self-imposed deadline, who usually gets up an hour early just to write, discovers that he is missing an important…

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