Penny Fuller

Joined June 2021

70 stories

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(Not my real name)- Other Labels include:

Lover of fiction writing and reading. Aspiring global nomad. Woman in science. Most at home in nature. Working my way to an unconventional life, story by story and poem by poem.

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When Winning
When winning Stay far from the hidden corners of whispery echoes. It is here you will hear why you are undeserving, not enough,
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Poets
Dunning Krueger
You are not an expert Because You will miss things And The internet knows The truth and lies You did not spend years learning
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Poets
Silent Snow
In mid-October, it arrives how it always does: Rapid. Enduring. The rain starts to muffle its frenetic drumbeat on the metal roof of our cabin. Precipitation will still fall, but now it will come without announcing itself. It will build layer upon layer- a muted pressure that strains the rafters to near breaking.
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Fiction
The ABCs of Advance and Retreat
(Part 1, The Wisdom of Advance) Anxiety will whisper Be safe, don't try. - Chanting its siren song of fear and acquiescent mediocrity.
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Poets
2024 Words. Top Story - January 2024.
Preface: The Life-Changing Promise of January Even if studies and skeptics suggest that most people have abandoned their New Year goals before spring, there is perpetual hope in the fact that we keep trying.
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Writers
Retrospect. Runner-Up in Villanelle Challenge.
I did not think my life would be this way- my childhood self had many different dreams. My yesterday is nothing like today.
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Poets
The Ailehpos of Apartment 21D. Second Place in the Neolomicro Challenge.
We live in a home full of created ghosts. The four of us each find our own ways to manifest an ailehpo. These presences are squatters, but we cannot seem to find a way to evict them.
By Penny Fuller2 years ago in Fiction
Timeweaver
One thread- many hues of emotion. One stitch brief, one stretched endlessly.
By Penny Fuller3 years ago in Poets
Four Minutes
The neon green numbers on the clock by her bedside flash five thirty-two. For her, it is always 1971 And I am a baby- and not
By Penny Fuller3 years ago in Poets
Driving the Moon
When I was five, I dreamt my father Had to go away to take a job driving the moon. Inside the celestial orb, clockwork gears and a
By Penny Fuller3 years ago in Poets
First Kiss
July afternoon tongues and lips raspberry blue shared breath- then future
By Penny Fuller3 years ago in Poets
Garage Sale Sticker
Booties, blue, 10 cents- knit with high expectations. Never got to wear.
By Penny Fuller3 years ago in Poets