Post #131 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
Women’s Memoirs Announces New Award
Kendra and I have talked since May about a distinctive Women’s Memoir award for memoir writers. This would be an award for extraordinary stories. We eventually decided to call it the GOLDEN NIB award. We then got our website designer busy creating the award. We had two versions and put them in our “we’ll deal with this later” pile.
Time moves on.
Occasionally, Kendra and I find a few stories that we receive to be of such a high quality that we wish we had our distinctive award to give. Then with Sharon Mortz’s MESSAGES, we felt we had the perfect story to be the first to receive our Golden Nib Award.
Congratulations Sharon.
MESSAGES
By Sharon Mortz,
First Winner of Women’s Memoirs Golden Nib Award
On September 3, 2003, I walked through the door of my apartment grateful the day was behind me. I tossed my coat over the corner of the door to my room, stripped off my office attire, pulled on my well-worn sweats and threw myself on my bed. I tried to ignore the annoying beep my answering machine emitted informing me that I had a message. I never felt like talking after work and today was no different. I stumbled to the kitchen to pour a glass of wine and since the phone was at arm’s length, I punched the answering machine. The machine spat out a one-word message: “Mommy.” The hairs on my arms and back of my neck stood at attention. I listened again. “Mommy.” There was no mistaking the message. I punched the answering machine again. The same message. My limp body fell against the refrigerator and I slid to the floor, huge gulping sobs wracking my body. I had corroboration of our connection.
Jacquie had died on Labor Day, September 3, 2001 two years earlier.
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On Wednesday, August 29, 2001, my 27-year-old daughter, Jacquie, a food/cocktail waitress, came home from work at about 4:00 am. She and her coworkers had stopped for their favorite food – Chinese – after their evening shift. [click to continue…]
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