Meredith Harmon

Joined June 2021

435 stories

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Mix equal parts anthropologist, biologist, geologist, and artisan, stir and heat in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, sprinkle with a heaping pile of odd life experiences. Half-baked.

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It's My Garden
It’s my garden and it’s dry so I’ll water Pick a new flower Get caught in a shower It helps me chase away my blues *******
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Poets
You Will Never Know. Top Story - June 2025.
You tried to kill me. Don’t try to deny it, the evidence is quite clear. It was close, my dear. Very, very close. But you wouldn’t know about that, would you?
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Poets
Why is The Trail Here?
Why is the trail here? Nature enthusiasts: Because it winds around picturesque valleys, ambles through a valley following the river to the sparkling sea, whispers its way through an old growth forest carefully preserved, and tiptoes through a swamp still very much alive with ancient crocodiles.
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Poets
Bluebeard's Legacy
We all have one. At least. Here in Merrie Olde England, throw a rock, and you’re likely to hit some kind of landed aristocracy. As long as the dusty titles give the children access to Eton or Cambridge, we really don’t care about much else.
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Fiction
Sister Light, Sister Dark
I hope I didn’t smile as I watched them set the needle in his vein. Bloodthirsty? Me? Oh, honey, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Fiction
Fossil in the Cliffs. Honorable Mention in History Would’ve Burned This Page Challenge.
Down a little lower, a little lower…. There! I didn’t need the ghost to guide me, but knowing who was guiding my hand, I didn’t mind in the slightest.
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in History
Forge and Sanctuary. Runner-Up in Pride Under Pressure Challenge.
I set the stake into the ground with a little more force than was probably necessary. It was happening with increasing frequency, so I knew with certainty it would happen again today. Might as well make it a part of my daily routine, I suppose.
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Pride
Paradise or Perdition
I lay in bed, and mulled the words of Brother Conrad, with equal parts trepidation and rising hope. He spoke so eloquently on a new life, a different life. A life without the restrictions that I found so uncomfortable, with no way out.
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Pride
Warning: Causes Unlimited Cursing
From The Chronicles of the Upside-Down Grimoire, copied and translated into modern parlance by our own inimitable Barto Svalta, from shredded scroll to battered paper to mouse-nibbled parchment to leaflet to tattered book to moth-eaten tome, from time immemorial and unknown:
By Meredith Harmon8 months ago in Chapters
Dark Balance. Top Story - May 2025.
I was tired. I didn’t know I was faint till the crown slid from my head, clanging as it rolled away in a rattle and clatter of noise.
By Meredith Harmon9 months ago in Fiction
Explosive Temperament
That. Is. IT. I’m. DONE. I have HAD IT! YOU WOKE ME UP! Neighbors, you have encroached on my yard for far, FAR too long!
By Meredith Harmon9 months ago in Journal
Bandwagon
Dear Maestro, and the full Orchestra, It is with a heavy drum-beating of my heart that I must take my bow. I know the gravy gig’s up.
By Meredith Harmon9 months ago in Journal