10 Minute Shorts: “Used Accordion For Sale”

$250. Used Accordion in excellent condition. 3-button diatonic; red bellow; gold grilleEmail for more information.

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The posting on Craigslist was brief and in bold letters, with a photo attached. There was no mention that the accordion belonged to her great-grandfather, the legendary Marcos Ruiz III, who played with Narciso Martinez and Santiago Jimenez. He was the Conjunto legend from the Gulf Coast town of Freeport. The accordion was worth more, but she felt too ashamed to mention who it belonged to. She was desperate for cash.

10 minute shorts: “the pursuit towards suffering”

Note: A 10 minute writing exercise to keep the creative juices flowing…

422 days had gone by. he lied at the edge of the landfill, hungry, tired, exhausted. his nostrils had become stuffed with black mucus from the dump’s pollutants.

he had scoured through every piece of item that built this pyramid of what once belong to modern society: jewelry, furniture, transportation, vinyl, smart phones, imac and pc computers, certificates of appreciations and recognitions, nfl trophies, playboy and new yorker magazines,