I Still Miss Someone

#19 by Johnny Cash

Y’all, I just love this publication! Reading the stories submitted here each week is an absolute treat 🙏 and I am so thankful for all of the writers who participate in the prompts. I also appreciate all the readers who get involved — liking, sharing, and commenting on each author’s posts! The community here is so inspiring, you all are awesome!😎🤘

Last week’s song prompt, Constant Craving, by K. D. Lang, and our Headliner Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦’s It’s Always Been, were stellar! If you’ve yet to read them, then you must be new here — Happy Reading!

Week #18 Feature🏆

This week’s Feature goes to Gray, for her story titled, The Week Before He Was Sentenced. This prompt seemed to fall in just the right spot for Gray, making it the fourth installment in her, the Week Before Series, which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed!

I’mma sucker for a memoir read, and Grace’s little ditty’s really hit the spot! She writes’em just like I like’em — short and sweet, with a little kick that’ll sneak up on ya. 😉

The Week Before He Was Sentenced

After Tip died, Shane spiraled. He was never the same. None of us were. But some trainwrecks were worse than others. Or at least more visible.

Shane would kick in anything that would give. And maybe sometimes that was me.

All I craved was a healing. Instead. I was sent away…

Now here’s this week’s prompt, I Still Miss Someone, by Johnny Cash.

“I Still Miss Someone“ is a song co-written by Johnny Cash and his nephew Roy Cash, Jr. and originally recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. He first recorded it in 1958 as the B-side to “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town“. (Via Wikipedia)

Cash wrote “I Still Miss Someone” with his nephew, Roy Cash, Jr. He performed “I Still Miss Someone” during At Folsom Prison, and most of Cash’s live recordings after the 1960s also included this song. He also re-recorded it in the studio on several later occasions for Columbia and Mercury Records.

Cash appeared in Eat the Document, which documented Bob Dylan‘s 1966 world tour, performing “I Still Miss Someone” with Dylan backstage. Cash later recorded the song as a duet with Dylan during sessions for Dylan’s album Nashville Skyline in 1969; this duet was officially released in 2019 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969.

Cash and Willie Nelson performed the song as a duet during concerts by their supergroup The Highwaymen, which also featured Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. A 1990 live Highwaymen version was released on the album Live: American Outlaws in 2016.

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Our song prompt this week was selected by Jeannine Lawall. Jeannine is a gifted and talented short story writer! Her easy-reading stories never cease to amaze me — the last three submissions here alone, not to mention her Tiny Tales, are fantastic! Y’all go check her out over at, Life in the Slow lane, you’ll be glad you did!

Y’all, I just read(and listened) to her submission below, and boy oh boy what a treat she has in-store for all of you! Happy Reading!

Here’s this week’s Headliner, When All The Love Was There!

When All the Love Was There

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Okay, now it’s your turn!

Calling all Poets, Fiction, or Non-Fiction writers that love music — Share your prose of 1500 words or less, using the prompt, I Still Miss Someone.

Remember:

• Each Wednesday I’ll publish a newsletter with that week’s song prompt — along with a featured writer’s submission from the previous week.

• Anyone is then free to run with it! Just add the link to your story or prose in the comments of this newsletter.

• Subscribers to Stories from the Jukebox, also have a chance to be featured in the following week’s newsletter. And I’ll do my best to give feedback and restack each submission.

There’s always rules:

1. All forms of prose are welcome, just keep it under 1500 words.

2. Submissions must be published by midnight on Monday.

3. Submissions must include a tag/link to this week’s Song Prompt Newsletter embedded within the post.

   While anyone is welcome to add their post in the comments at any time — all rules must be followed for a post to be eligible to be featured or shared.

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I’m so excited to see what y’all come up with this week!

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I know it’s a super busy time of year, so I’mma give y’all a heads-up on next week’s prompt. Our song prompt for the week of Christmas is… Colder Weather, by the Zac Brown Band! Thanks to everyone who voted on our Christmas week prompt poll!