Tag Archives: Amanda Le Rougetel

AMANDA LE ROUGETEL: The Ring and the Promise

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He proposed, promising, “I want you for me, forever.” She floated up the aisle, deeply happy. He was her everything; she told him so with her vows. But when he placed the ring through her nose and led her back down the aisle, she realized she had misunderstood his meaning.

A writer and community educator, Amanda Le Rougetel blogs at fiveyearsawriter.blogspot.com and teaches through writingastool.ca. She writes CNF essays, 50-word stories, and 100-word micro-memoir. Find her published work through Chill Subs.

AMANDA LE ROUGETEL: Gushing not required

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1958: Calling the “doctor” was impossible, since he did not work in a clinic. His instructions for overnight monitoring post-procedure had been vague but emphatic: WATCH FOR A HAEMORRHAGE. Tragically, she didn’t realize that even a tiny trickle of blood, steady, minute after lonely minute, for hours, was precisely that.

Amanda Le Rougetel writes flash-length creative nonfiction and micro-length fiction. Find her published work on Chill Subs.

AMANDA LE ROUGETEL: Beyond Capacity

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Remember in May:
Those pin-neat rows
go rogue in summer heat.

Fine beauty in June.
Come July, gay abundance.
Next up, chaos.
By September, I look no more.

Aficionado of the planning,
I am caught by the glory of the seeds
in January catalogues,
the tilling and toil never mentioned.

Amanda Le Rougetel wrote this poem.

AMANDA LE ROUGETEL: Morning Blues

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I drink coffee, eat porridge with apple and almonds for crunch, for noise, while I listen to the dead quiet of a house too big, filled only with memories of mornings alive with conversation, joy and heart. Yours now stilled, routine gets me through, my own not in it anymore.

Amanda Le Rougetel doesn’t mind being short and really enjoys writing short-form stories. She blogs at fiveyearsawriter.blogspot.com and teaches through writingastool.ca.

AMANDA LE ROUGETEL: Of cheese and trumpets and love

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Young Gloria wrote stories while her dad Bob played the trumpet. His music did not feed her; dinner was plastic-cheese on white bread. Every day.

Older Gloria still writes, now eats brie on a baguette for breakfast, while her lover Stanley plays the trumpet. His music feeds her. Every day.

Amanda Le Rougetel doesn’t mind being short and really likes writing short-form stories. She blogs at fiveyearsawriter.blogspot.com and teaches through writingastool.ca.