by Ann Lee Miller | Dec 1, 2017 | Just The Facts Fridays, Uncategorized
Superstitious Friends By Ann Lee Miller From the end of my street, I see the Superstition Mountains run skyward, Stalwart sisters, draped in haze and the color blue— A hue I’ve never seen them wear. After decades of daily acquaintance, their beauty... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Nov 3, 2017 | Just The Facts Fridays, Portfolio
El Pintor, the newspapers called him—an unschooled muralist—never Paul, the guy who lived in his wiry body beneath a thatch untamed hair. Thirty-six years old. He made a living off his art. Damn lucky, his buddy Axel called him. Axel who’d married Mara when he wasn’t... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Oct 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is a short story based on the life of Mary Minus Biddle, a real woman who lived in my home state of Florida about the time slaves were being emancipated. Ann Mary Minus Biddle shifted her bony behind on the hard pew, sweat soaking the back of her best dress.... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 8, 2017 | Ashland OH, Ashland University, Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
Jim trudged up the worn carpet steps of Fern’s, the Ashland, Ohio, boarding house where he lived while attending seminary. The steps creaked as he shrugged off his coat and the icy one a.m. air that clung to it. Downstairs, housemate Tom McConahay, his partner in... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 1, 2017 | Ashland OH, Ashland University, Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
Good-bye Girl, was the name of the movie Jim and I watched on our first date—a moniker I could have worn myself. I’d strung the elastic string of a candy necklace with crushes, adding and subtracting infatuations on a weekly basis. My affections were sweet, shallow,...
