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Mind Craft: Next Year’s Resolutions

This author’s commitments to self in 2024.

Scarlet Ibis James 🦩
2 min readDec 26, 2023

I was challenged by Toni The Talker to come up with five (5) ten-word stories. The instructions were to make them holiday-related.

Divergent as I am, I wondered if the turn of the old to the new year is a holiday.

Let’s say it is.

My Stories, Which Are Also Ever-So-Skewed Resolutions

1. She was kind and compassionate to irritating people — irritating them.

She was kind and compassionate to irritating people — irritating them. Midjourney conjured this image.
The author owns image*

2. She revised, submitted, and embraced the rejection of publishing romance.

The middle-aged Black woman She revised, submitted, and embraced the rejection of publishing romance…this is how Midjourney saw her.
The author owns the image*

3. She enjoyed her 55th year, accounting error though it was.

The middle-aged Black woman enjoy your 55th year
The author owns the image*

4. She spent an obscene amount on tickets to the Knicks.

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩
Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

Written by Scarlet Ibis James 🦩

I am a writer, reader, essayist, published author and editor. https://www.scarletibisjames.com.

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