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Honorable Mention in the NYC Short Story Challenge 2023. I'll take it! Read the story here.
It’s all about the light “I can’t get it open, Maestro.” His frustration sticks to his barely audible words. “What do you mean, you can’t...
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marladominey
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Lobster Crawl Makers Market
Mj Dominey fine art will be putting on a display of The Little Things in Life, a few things I make in between painting the sea and trees....
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marladominey
- Jan 14
- 4 min
Where did 2 years go?!
It's been two years since I released my first book, Through the Elephant Ears, with a few unnoticed typos; you know the kind, the ones...
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marladominey
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
Ribbon Candy and squishy grapes
"Our stockings, full of squishy grapes and ribbon candy, will hang from nails in the panelled wall of the front room next to the red...
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marladominey
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
Secrets
In small communities secrets aren't usually very secret. What people try to hide soon becomes well known by everyone, but not talked...
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marladominey
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1 min
The Return
Someone is dead. Kat attends the funeral, but she sees more than just the deceased and the attending friends and family. She is angry,...
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marladominey
- Jun 30, 2021
- 16 min
Bonus Story! When I changed the cover of my book I added two bonus stories. Here is one of them.
(Photo by Nick Wang on Unsplash) BOXER BOY This fall everyone seems so much older. We are finally leaving elementary school behind, both...
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marladominey
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
Change of Face
They say never judge a book by the cover! As much as I liked the close-up of actual Elephant Ears, I thought a photo of a girl with the...
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marladominey
- May 5, 2021
- 1 min
Pickled Eggs and Assumptions
Don't judge a book by its cover. Never assume because when you assume you make an ass of u and me. And pickled eggs... is there anything...
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marladominey
- Apr 25, 2021
- 1 min
It was only in the movies
In The Present we see the increasingly complicated relationship between Kat and Stacey. This story is probably the most disturbing of the...
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marladominey
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
Canadian Club
Canadian Club is a story about underage drinking. I can't say for sure every teenager has tried alcohol before they were legally...
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marladominey
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
The rooster- Through the Elephant Ears
"When I got to the end of the tunnel, I saw the gate of the coop open, hanging from one hinge, leaning against the silver mesh fence. I...
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marladominey
- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min
Superstition
"Birds," is my favourite story in the collection. I think I like it best because it is the saddest. That sounds strange to say (though I...
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marladominey
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min
Ice, Ice, Baby - Vanilla Ice
I am sure most rural children had a favourite pond where they liked to skate and I am fairly certain hockey was involved on some level....
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marladominey
- Mar 23, 2021
- 1 min
The Lord is my Shepherd
Paradise is the most religious of the stories and by religious I mean it has more references to religion than any of the others. Set in a...
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marladominey
- Mar 16, 2021
- 1 min
From Away
The story New Girl, the third in the collection, was published in the literary magazine Carte Blanche (#29) in Montreal. Adrianne is...
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marladominey
- Mar 9, 2021
- 1 min
Elephant Ears, Not the kind you think
Through the Elephant Ears is the second story and the title of the book. Elephant Ears were plants that grew up to ten feet high, with...
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marladominey
- Mar 2, 2021
- 1 min
"Artistic talents?"
The first short story in Through the Elephant Ears is "The Offering." In the book's first short story we meet Kat, a ten year old girl...
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marladominey
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
Art and Words
“The waves were high and turquoise, heaving towards the shore and breaking white against the rocks on both sides of the small cove. The...
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marladominey
- Feb 14, 2021
- 1 min
To start
Through the Elephant Ears This book is not a memoir. It is a fictional story of Katarina (Kat), as she grows up in rural Cape Breton in...
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