Earlene Remembers a Simpler Time

A 50-word story for the prompt: Forget & Remember

Molly Skeen
The Friday Fix
1 min readAug 21, 2020

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Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Earlene remembers when life was easy — before typewriters took over. All you needed was paper and pen. It’s so complicated now with her Remington — typewriter ribbons, carbon paper, and whiteout in three colors. She knows there are many advantages of the typewriter age, but she longs for a simpler time.

Thanks to Justin Deming for the 50-word Friday Fix story prompt, “Forget & Remember:”

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