Write at the Merge Wrap Up, Week 20

writing prompt Thank you to everyone who linked up this week! Our writing community never disappoints with the depth of thought and emotion that go into your posts.

Megan Eccles from Love Letters 7.10 writes about the moments that bridge the gap between memory and grief.

As she stripped the house to its bones, she dwelt on the fact that she was an orphan now. Her father had passed away three years prior, a heart attack, sudden and shocking. That was a hard year. The realization that her parents were no longer young was a blow that Cecelia wouldn’t have time to recover from. Cecelia’s mother had received the news of her cancer, terminal, only a few weeks before. They had clutched hands as they remembered him in the front rows of the pews, as friends and strangers told the wonderful things about him. It wouldn’t be the last time.

Read more at “The Forever Song

Ann Bennett writes about the complicated nature of childhood friendships and the line between being nosy and neighborly in “Children’s Arguments.”

If you haven’t had a chance to read this week’s offerings, take a few minutes to catch up with your fellow writers.



Weekend Linkup

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I apologize Write on Edge. I absolutely spaced this week and didn’t schedule the Weekend Linkup OR the Week 20 Wrap Up for Write at the Merge. The wrap up will post tomorrow morning, but for now…

Welcome to the Weekend Linkup! The linkup is a place to link up your favorite piece of writing from the week, whether it’s a new post or something you wrote for another prompt or Tuesday’s musings on how important ice cream is during summer months. There are no word limits, no topic restrictions, and no prompts.

Please try to visit as many as possible, particularly the ones in front of and behind your link. Thanks, and happy reading!


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