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Inappropriate Workplace Behavior
“Your screenplay sucks, Mrs. Frey, but I know a way you can make it up to me. And afterward, you can stay late and rewrite the ending."

Mare Loch
Jan 196 min read
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Mrs. Potiphar and the Pool Boy
I’m not one of those housewives who lusts after the pool boy (she said). Gerry is indeed the whole package and I truly want for nothing more

Mare Loch
Jul 24, 20245 min read
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The Old Gray Mare Just Ain't What I Used To Be
Hey, it's my birthday.

Mare Loch
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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FaceTime Bodice Ripper Episode
We thought midlife hadn't been hard enough up until now so we decide to date while we trudged through the Celibate Desert. We're so thirsty.

Mare Loch
Jul 3, 20243 min read
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Paparazzi at The Ivy
Stopping quickly in The Ivy’s valet area, movie star Bran Barclay stepped from his plaid Tesla. His neon smile lit up the grey L.A. horizon.

Mare Loch
May 26, 20245 min read
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Whiskey, Scotland and Dallas, Texas, 1911
Colin Hall’s entire family was dead in a traffic accident on Easter Sunday of 1911, at noon as the church bells rang in the gothic belfry.

Mare Loch
May 18, 20244 min read
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All the Ways Death Comes
I missed her passing by 12 hours and I am mad with anguish!

Mare Loch
May 9, 20242 min read
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Wake Me Up
My horse fell on me, violently thrashing, like a turtle stuck on his back. I looked at the silent police officer lying next to me...

Mare Loch
May 6, 20243 min read
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Barebacked
“I want you to ride bareback behind me on my horse to Sagebrush,” the handsome Scot said, brushing the hair away from my face...
Bareback?

Mare Loch
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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Dorothy Catches a Flight
I felt like Dorothy seeing color for the first time as the scarecrow dragged her up the stairs of his luxury private jet.

Mare Loch
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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The Last Train From Sagebrush
“You’re the only woman I’ve ever loved, Mavish,” he cried, and she pushed him away. “Please don’t take my boy!” he begged in anguish.

Mare Loch
Dec 10, 20234 min read
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Baby, You Can Drive My Car
As the car began to skid, sparks flew up from the plane's propellors as they dug into the concrete.

Mare Loch
Dec 10, 20233 min read
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Give Thanks, You're Alone
For a little while, your life looked like a Norman Rockwell painting. The table was set just right. But Norman painted that, you didn't.

Mare Loch
Nov 23, 20234 min read
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And the Horse You Rode in On
I buzzed my son in and he drove though the gate with someone I wasn't expecting; his father! My ex-husband was not invited, yet here he was.

Mare Loch
Nov 21, 20235 min read
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The Waffle House, See
At Waffle House there's a chance the cook would ash his dart in the grits.

Mare Loch
Nov 3, 20233 min read
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Scottishy
This rugged Scottish actor had introduced himself to me at this fancy Hollywood Christmas party and I tried not to gush.

Mare Loch
Aug 26, 20232 min read
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Goodbye, Saltair Avenue
"You don't have to feign interest in film for me," he said, letting me off the hook. "Oh, thank goodness," I groaned.

Mare Loch
Aug 13, 20233 min read
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Boomer-Sooner Land Rush
The Choctaw woman looked through the back of her moving wagon and saw a man riding alongside her horse, trying to steal it.

Mare Loch
Jun 29, 20234 min read
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Father's Day
A slip of paper tried to escape, fluttered out but he caught it. He took the card out and it was a Father’s Day card with childish writing

Mare Loch
Jun 18, 20234 min read
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The Children of Apollo
He was from California, I was from Texas and we met in the bush of Australia as kids. And then we met again when our lives were almost over.

Mare Loch
Jun 15, 20235 min read
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