Tiffany Mercer
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Just your basic, garden-variety fiction dweeb. :-)
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Caffeinated Clouds
Crepuscular croissant crafters carefully clear cluttered countertops, circumnavigating crowded carts carrying culinary comforts, clutching cloud-like, caffeinated cupfuls— commonly called “cappuccinos”— cultivating calm cleanliness, countering calculated chaos.
By Tiffany Mercer3 years ago in Poets
Not Much of a Dragon
It wasn’t much of a forest, but it had often been said that I wasn’t much of a dragon. The barb had lost its cutting edge over the centuries as the others disappeared one by one: fallen to knights or vice or mere dumb luck, while I watched the tides of nature and time in their ebb and flow from my unobtrusive— or, if we’re being unkind, ineffectual— vantage.
By Tiffany Mercer3 years ago in Fiction
Elephant in the Room
I was a really lucky kid. Every evening, my dad would settle down on the couch between my younger sister and I-- both of us clutching a sippy-cup of warm milk-- and read us a bedtime story. We had an impressive collection, thanks to a bountifully stocked, local, used bookstore. We were also privileged to attend children's night at the public library every week, where a friendly librarian entranced an entire crowd of youngsters with a story followed by a craft project, and returned home with two borrowed books apiece. My parents didn't give us the world; by inspiring a love of reading from a young age, they gave us worlds.
By Tiffany Mercer5 years ago in Families
Lock It
I don’t know why I reclaimed the locket. It wasn’t exactly a family heirloom— I’d traded a handful of arcade tickets for it when I was in the 4th or 5th grade, and swapped a scratchy hemp cord for the cheap chain after it turned my neck green. Frankly, I’d forgotten it existed until the dented metal heart resurfaced as I rummaged through the boxes stashed in the hollowed-out wall of my stepfather’s basement. Nevertheless, I impulsively stuffed it into my backpack.
By Tiffany Mercer5 years ago in Fiction
