Plot Twist by Bethany Turner

Plot Twist

Listen here to Plot Twist Or on your favorite podcast app!  Or read it below! Plot Twist By Bethany Turner “No, I mean it,” I said through my laughter fifteen minutes later as we continued standing and chatting by his car—some little convertible thing that seemed perfect for him. It wasn’t showy at all. Not…

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MOS: Mom’s Out Syndrome

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MOS: Mom’s Out Syndrome Mom’s Out Syndrome or MOS (Much like the green fungus that grows in the shade, deprived of sunlight. You can dissect the metaphor.) is a phenomenon that happens in families when a mom is out of commission due to illness, injury, mental collapse, dismemberment, death of a loved one, or now…

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Destination Destiny: A Short Story about Destiny

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Destination Destiny: A Short Story about Destiny Are you living your best life?  Listen here or read it below, it’s your destiny!  Love, J   When she imagined her feet, she pictured them swollen to the size of two loaves of bread.  They throbbed.  Literally, her feet were throbbing in her overpriced work shoes.  The…

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Everly’s Escape: A Short Story about Escape

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Everly’s Escape: A Short Story about Escape Curios? Sometimes we all need an escape.  Find out how Everly gets hers! Listen or Read it! Everly’s Escape The crowded room erupted in laughter.  Sheepishly, Everly sipped her zinfandel.  The cool, sweet drink must’ve paled in comparison to her burning, flushed cheeks.  Then came the “nudge, nudge,”…

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Worry-Free Living in a Worried World

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Is it even possible to live worry-free in a worried world?   I am here to testify, yes.   If you have been here for a while, you might be shocked to learn, it has been four years. Four-years, since our beloved John-John, our second oldest child, our firstborn son, boarded a bus for Marine Bootcamp.   The…

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The Number One Question Everyone Needs Answered About Covid-19

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The Number One Question Everyone Needs Answered About Covid-19 We all have questions about Covid-19.  2020 has nearly zoomed right past us at a snail speed. We have stood by enraged or just quarantined through civil unrest, the rights of humanity, to mask or not, to homeschool or just graduate everyone who can hold a…

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Dear August 2020: It’s Been Real 

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Dear August 2020: It’s Been Real  I would love to know how we made it to August of 2020 in what was either the longest or shortest of years in the history of time.  If there is a year I will never forget or hardly remember, this is it.   In a recent phone appointment with…

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Welcome Home: The Year America Spoke the Same Scholastic Language

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Welcome Home: The Year America Spoke the Same Scholastic Language Welcome home… homeschooled that is.  Yes, I have braced myself for the onslaught of folks reminding me of the terror of COVID-19.  I am not here to negate the losses.  We have lost too.  Family members lost jobs, friends were very sick, acquaintances passed.  I…

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Stuff We As a Society Don’t Understand

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Stuff We As a Society Don’t Understand If nothing else, the COVID-19 Pandemic has given us all plenty to talk about, at a distance of course, sometimes.  Although, there is a bunch we as a society don’t understand.  I am no expert, but, not to brag, I am coming up on my third book launch…

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