{"id":14053,"date":"2025-10-14T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=14053"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:34:23","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e5bd76e0c3002b8e6bae09ed4681b994\"><em>Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Waste Not<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Desiree Cooper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTime stretching languid in the humid afternoon tastes like caramel cake. It smells like pine needles in the rain.&#8221; \u2014excerpted from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/riverteethjournal.com\/beautiful-things\/waste-not-2-btonipr1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Waste Not<\/a>,&#8221; by Desiree Cooper, River Teeth, Beautiful Things, September 29, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.descooper.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Desiree Cooper\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>is the author of the award-winning collection of flash fiction,\u00a0<em>Know the Mother<\/em>.\u00a0Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in\u00a0<em>The Best Small Fictions 2018,\u00a0Callaloo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Michigan Quarterly Review,\u00a0The Rumpus<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Best African American Fiction 2010<\/em>. 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