Not my usual short post. Why?
When I first started this blog, my intention was to write [50] fifty short stories, and drum roll please, [um, that's a horn. Never mind], and I have completed my intent. [What's that? No speech, please we beg you] .What a tough crowd. 
First I want to thank God for granting me this talent of putting life together in words. My calling with a social conscience and a romantic flair.
[William-Adolopole Bougureau - A Calling]
Secondly, those who stopped by to read and comment. I am grateful. If I made you smile, laugh, think, questioned, raised awareness, awakened emotions, thank you. These flowers are for you.
[Vasily Andreyevich Tropin - Girl with Roses]
And lastly, those who will stop by in the future. There are a gazillion blogs out there and you made your way here. Thank you. There are other blogs that you can also make your way to. [What? Where?] Check out my blogroll. Wonderful blogs with awesome pictures, beautifully written poems, inspiring quotes, information, thoughts, . . . [Wait, don't leave now, finish reading].
This sounds like goodbye. [Yay! Who said that?] Well in a way it is. No more stories will be written here. I am closing this part of my life that included other lives, things that maybe you or I went through in one or more of these stories. So as my favorite teddy bear and I prepare to drive off into the sunset, [wait, flat tire], walk off into the sunset, I again say thank you. Special thanks to you Trisha, you’re amazing! 
The stories appeared in this order:-
1) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/page-one/ Sing Me a Song
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/first-love-first-kiss/
2) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/take-one/ Guest
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/have-have-none/
3) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/go-one/ 12 Plus the One
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/marry-not-to-marry/
4) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/hello-one/ Seven Years into Forever
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/good-bad-both/
5) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/see-one/ Letters from a ‘stranger’
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/perception/
6) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/heres-one/ Before Noon
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/open-wound/
7) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/now-one/ Nostalgia
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/broken-love/
8. http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/plant-one/ I Was a Nobody
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/everythings-nothing/
9) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/and-one/ First Interview
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/the-good-bad-acts/
10) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/get-one/ Not Taylor
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/deed-wrong/
11) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/pick-one/ Souvenir
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/for-keeps/
12) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/try-one/ We Grew Up
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/this-functional-family/
13) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/move-one/ In Search of Him
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/look-a-man/
14) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/follow-one/ It’s a Girl
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/clayren/
15) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/carry-one/ House Keepers
Tagged- http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/bet-a-not/
16) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/have-one/ Days Gone By
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/contemptporary/
17) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/meet-one/ Somewhere in between
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ageloss/
18) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/find-one/ Not for Love
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/lonelinest/
19) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/then-one/ To do list
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/time-peace/
20) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/light-one/ Decade
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/mourning-past/
21) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/free-one/ Find a Love Story
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/love-girds/
22) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/leave-one/ Against
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/wish-boon/
23) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/paint-one/ Guilty
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/poor-wealth/
24) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/add-one/ Once upon that time
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/heart-worming/
25) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/show-one/ Blog Me
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/self-is-steam/
26) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/make-one/ Teach me to be mother
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/again/
27) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/allow-one/ It was me
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/trusted/
28) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/hide-one/ Indelible
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/leadershape/
29) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/push-one/ Miss Modern Woman
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/woeman/
30) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/create-one/ Become Me
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/nashunality/
31) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/save-one/ See What I See?
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/blind-sight/
32) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/pull-one/ In Print
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/lying-truth/
33) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/bake-one/ Perfect Grades
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/pressurise/
34) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/cut-one/ Playing Mr. Right
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/paid-love/
35) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/seek-one/ Henry VIII
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/familiar-stranger/
36) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/twist-one/ If only you did
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/affaketion/
37) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/play-one/ We’ll Take Him
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/infairiority/
38) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/feed-one/ A Black Box
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/bygone-going-by/
39) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/drag-one/ Wrong Direction
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/no-return-to-sender/
40) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/throw-one/ A Taste of It
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/freedoom/
41) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/clean-one/ Rose’s Thorn
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/blessing-messing/
42) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/color-one/ The End of a Rainbow
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/normall/
43) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/mold-one/ Peace of me
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/tranquality/
44) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/water-one/ Tuesday 11:05pm
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/love-interrupted/
45) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/dust-one/ Hands Talk
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/domestichated/
46) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/eat-one/ It’s You
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/heart-choice-3/
47) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/drink-one/ Pressed Rewind
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/stuck-in-reverse/
48) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/polish-one/ The Dead’s Request
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/deadwould/
49) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/break-one/ Heart Transplant
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/unchanged-of-nature/
50) http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/thank-one/ Play On
Tagged – http://girlgeum.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/dream-reality/
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I am grateful for the thoughts, appreciative of the awards, and humble in receiving them. Although they’re not up on the blog, I’m thankful that you gave them.
“Doth not he see my ways and count all my steps?” Job 31vs4
And my missteps. Me
Posted by Z on April 21, 2010 at 8:59 am
i’m not good at goodbyes:(
Posted by girlgeum on April 21, 2010 at 9:07 am
This here will not have another post, but I’m going to create a page with longer stories that will only be added on Fridays. So yeah, you haven’t gotten rid of me. Bummer I know.
Was just doing two things at once and posted the longer story here but I deleted it. Look for it on Friday. So you see, it’s not goodbye.
Posted by Z on April 22, 2010 at 3:59 am
yay!:)
Posted by girlgeum on April 22, 2010 at 6:11 am
Posted by trisha on April 21, 2010 at 9:42 am
THATS BETTER!
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT GOING TO YOUR HOME AND SPANKING YOU.
DONT YOU DARE TO STOP WRITING.
I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR STORIES.
would have loved to have my daily quota though.
may be you can run both side by side, how about that? eh?
Posted by girlgeum on April 22, 2010 at 6:11 am
Thanks for the comments. I think I set out what I wanted to accomplish with the fifty, so it’s my way of leaving something behind and beginning something new.
Thank you so much for reading them and commenting. And yes, the conversations and insights that you gave.
The page that I’ve already have a name for will have no pictures, will be written in two parts, longer, but as usual have some social consciousness to them. They’ll only appear on Fridays.
I’ll be reading more blogs.
Posted by trisha on April 22, 2010 at 8:20 am
Posted by girlgeum on April 23, 2010 at 6:09 am
Tempting, but my mind is made up. I believe I’ve accomplished what I set out to do.
Posted by trisha on April 21, 2010 at 9:43 am
your choice of paintings is beyond words….
Posted by girlgeum on April 22, 2010 at 6:12 am
I love art. Pictures can say a lot without a word.
Posted by trisha on April 22, 2010 at 8:22 am
paintings and music can say, move far more than words.
Posted by girlgeum on April 23, 2010 at 6:11 am
More focus. We see more, hear more, and feel more.
Posted by Tasneem R on April 23, 2010 at 10:51 am
Hey gg you’ve shocked me by your post . Why you leaving blog land? Your stories were wonderful why you don’t want to write any more . Although your aim as you said was to make the mark of 50 but didn’t you got yourself addicted to it all this while? How hard it must be for you to go I know but Don’t go plz .
Posted by Tasneem R on April 23, 2010 at 10:55 am
Ok just now I scrolled up to see what you have replied to your other blogging mates. Ok cool , so I’ll be able to read your stories every fridays ! Good !
Posted by girlgeum on April 26, 2010 at 5:30 am
Happy Friday reading.
Posted by Wanderer on April 26, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Hey girlgeum congrats!! so you moving?
Posted by girlgeum on April 27, 2010 at 6:07 am
No, I closed out the blog itself and opened a new page called Friday’s Winks with longer stories. It feels like I have to write or I’ll be miserable.
And thank you, thank you.
Posted by Z on April 29, 2010 at 6:56 am
will this new blog be more personal or something?
Posted by girlgeum on April 30, 2010 at 5:45 am
No new blog, but a new page. It’s up already. It’s called Friday Winks.
And as for being personal, well you mean like a day in my life. Something like where I receive a call to save the day, and so I grab my cape only to find out that I’m one of those super heroes that can’t fly. So I put my sheet, I mean cape back in the linen closet and then take out my super hero’s outfit. And when I look down, I realize that I’m wearing two different color socks. But I have no time to change it because I must go and save the day. Jump in my hero’s mobile, only to find out that it has no gas. This day can be categorized as being a bad day. That’s personal.
Posted by gina on April 30, 2010 at 10:35 am
Hey gg,
These pictures are beautiful beyond words.
I am sad to read that this is goodbye here…but as the saying goes, one door closes and another opens. If this is true then I hope you’ll be leaving a link to your new page, so I may follow when I get a moment. I would really like that.
Posted by girlgeum on May 3, 2010 at 6:20 am
Not actually leaving. I felt I set out and accomplished what I wanted to, and that was writing the amount of stories I did. I enjoy writing, so I decided to create a new page with new and longer stories. This time my attempt is to write more action based tales, and yes, always a message somewhere in them.
I thank you for stopping by, reading and requesting over my journey, over his part of my life.
Posted by JS Park on May 6, 2010 at 3:20 am
Congratulations. =)
Posted by girlgeum on May 6, 2010 at 6:01 am
Thanks.
Posted by Reformis Jalanan on May 13, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Ah…thank god. I’m just found this wonderful blog which can helps me to improve the English language.
Posted by girlgeum on May 14, 2010 at 6:26 am
Thank you for stopping by and commenting.
I hope here can help you in some way.
Posted by Keiichi(Marukatsu) on May 16, 2010 at 3:09 pm
So, You started new life!
Good!
Have a nice life!!
Umm,
your talent of writing is awesome!!
Posted by girlgeum on May 17, 2010 at 5:45 am
It’s been awhile. How are you?
Thanks for stopping by again and commenting.
Posted by Keiichi on May 18, 2010 at 8:39 am
Thank you, too!
I want to see you, someday.
Have a nice day!
Posted by girlgeum on May 19, 2010 at 6:19 am
You have a super-duper day.
Posted by Keiichi on June 8, 2010 at 11:03 am
Hi!,
How are you?
Thank you for your comment in my blog.
Have a nice day!
Posted by Ji on May 22, 2010 at 2:31 am
http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/the-celebrate-poet-of-april-award-announcement-for-nomination/
deadline is with 24 hours,
please vote!
Posted by unprecedentedintellectual on June 9, 2010 at 6:01 pm
wow…50 pieces! awesome! i love your writing.
Posted by girlgeum on June 10, 2010 at 6:15 am
Thank you.
Posted by Cicilia Evi on June 29, 2010 at 7:07 am
Well, it could be my first comment, before I read all of your writing pieces. Thank you dropping by at my blog page. I will get back to you when I’m done reading your pieces =)
Cicilia
Posted by girlgeum on June 30, 2010 at 6:26 am
And thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Posted by nicole on July 7, 2010 at 9:01 am
wow, 50 stories…you’re way more productive than me. these paintings add a funny touch to it too.
thanks for stopping by my blog and your words – how true.
Posted by girlgeum on July 8, 2010 at 7:16 am
And thank you for visiting.
Life’s complicated sometimes.
Posted by snydeen on July 29, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Wow. I’m glad I got to read the comments before I wrote! I was tweaking, that I’d missed everything (story of my life), but I can now relax and enjoy catching up on the short stories you’ve completed and look forward to whatever you have in the future… Phew. I love your blog writing. You’re funny. I deeply appreciate reality mixed with a huge dose of humor.
Posted by girlgeum on July 30, 2010 at 5:21 am
Thanks for stopping by and for the compliment.
Life’s not all bad; it can be humorous sometimes.
Posted by Anky0112 on September 10, 2010 at 4:16 am
nice one
glad to visit your page
i tagged you
http://makeachange1.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/band-wagon-tag-and-three-things-tag-plus-an-award/
Posted by jmjbookblog on September 26, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I only started blogging when my literary agent told me it would be a good idea. I use computers for looking up information and Microsoft Word for writing my manuscript…but I never thought I would ever blog. I also never realized just how many incredible writers are out there in cyberspace whom I can connect with. I’m thankful that you commented on my blog and that I in turn found yours. I can’t wait to go back and read all your stories! Have a special day! ^j^
Posted by girlgeum on September 27, 2010 at 5:20 am
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
There’s a lot of feedback, whether negative or positive, that a writer/blogger can get when blogging. Cyberspace is one big connection that allows people from all over the world with the same interests to communicate. It can be a useful tool sometimes.
Posted by Arjun Sharma on October 21, 2011 at 10:02 am
Hey great post. id like it if u’d visit my blog too
thanks
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Posted by girlgeum on October 22, 2011 at 1:53 am
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.