[Write the Story] A Police Investigation
Prompt: A Police Investigation Words: ominous, arrest, decay, squeal, reduce, feline avoid, feet, blackberry, bark Story The feline cry followed by the crash of a trash can caused Detective Crabtree to start. He fumbled his aging Blackberry as he picked his way through the alley toward where the GPS said he needed to be. He […]
[Writing Post] The Year of Unexpected Interruptions
The last Wednesday of 2017. Here we go, wrapping up the Year of Unexpected Interruptions. Out with the old and all. Just a reminder that I’m still taking submissions for the Cancer Can Suck It anthology. Deadline is this weekend. Please consider submitting. I am on vacation this week, but puttering about the house – […]
[Write the Story] Running Away from Change
Prompt: Running Away From Change Words: flight, blacktop, tense, contemplation, window, enclosure, spit, blink, trade, fence Story I peered out the window, lost in my own contemplation of the future. I stared at the blacktop beyond the fence enclosure, to the fields beyond trying to still the racing thoughts in my head. It didn’t work. […]
[Write the Story] A Babysitter Snoops and Finds Something Unexpected
Prompt: On Main Street in a Small Town Words: square, separate, type, truculent, preach, wilderness, pang, façade, pawn, pavement Story Pay no attention to the “city limit” sign on the edge of town. The welcome to Grover Corner is a façade at best. But don’t take my word for it. Make your own judgements, just […]
[Writer Post] Okay Then…Let’s Do It
I will get a blog post in before it’s not Wednesday anymore. I will get the article that I should have written MONTHS and MONTHS ago written, becuase I shouldn’t have had someone ask me for it (FINALLY). So that’s happening this week. Darn it. Still waiting for anthology submissions – might have to extend […]
[Write the Story] Behind the Scenes of the Theater
Prompt: Behind the Scenes at the Theater Words: loneliness, applaud, beg, jogging, memorize, admit, solitude, converse, eternity, marsh Story Todd tried to block out the noise and controlled chaos in the wings of the community theater. He was willing to beg for just one moment of solitude before the curtain, but it was way too […]
[Writer Post] Cancer Can Suck It
I just found out an author near and dear to me is going into hospice because of cancer after losing his lovely wife to a different varietal of this stupid disease. So this post is about the anthology project I’m editing. I have three stories so far for the anthology – one is a very […]
[Pen/Pencil Review] Return of the Pilot V7 Green
This is, indeed, a rerun… but a holiday-ish one. Yesterday got away from me – but this (like most Decembers) is all about the red and green ink. I actually used this one quite a bit today. The last pen review of 2014… where does the time go? And DUDE who’d’ve thought we’d be here? […]
[Write the Story] A Support Group Meeting
Prompt: A Support Group Meeting Words: novelist, fountain, snow, lady, pastoral, communicate, scene, sprout, carve, whisper Story Colleen scanned the area, making sure no one saw her approach the fountain. This was no place for a lady or, so she was told. Good thing she was no “lady”. The scene was nearly pastoral with snow […]
[Writer Blog] Taking On a New Project for Charity
It’s Wednesday. It’s blog day. My head is in NO kind of game today. There are a variety of reasons, none of them are important. Houseguests are in flux. House is ready (again) for the holidays for the most part. Personal appearances are over for the year. Stuff needs to get done – and yet, […]