“Hello?” “Hi Mother, How ar…” “Oh, it’s you.” “Sigh… Yes, Mother, it’s me. You don’t need to sound so disappointed.” “Well, I’m busy. Here, let me put you on speakerphone.” “I thought you hated the speakerphone. What are you doing?” “I’m painting if you must know.” “I didn’t know you painted. When did you start painting?”… Read More The Apple – Flash Fiction… Read More The Apple – Flash Fiction
Several years ago, there was a TV show called The Pretender. The show ran for six years from 1996 to 2000. The main character, Jerod, was a Pretender. Pretenders could become anything they wanted to be. As a child, Jerod was a prodigy who had been abducted and raised in a think tank called The Centre. He… Read More The Pretender… Read More The Pretender
My hands were stained with the evidence of my guilt. There was no way of turning back the grains of time and undoing my sin; not even if I’d wanted to… which I wasn’t sure I did. I had tried to resist. But passion is hard to endure. The past few days I had done… Read More Caught – Flash Fiction… Read More Caught – Flash Fiction
And here we are again with the third and last part of my three-part series on writing prompts. The last couple weeks we have looked at some of the different reasons to use writing prompts and the value they have for us as writers. Today I want to look at the different types of prompts and where… Read More Writing Prompts Part III… Read More Writing Prompts Part III
How long had I stood there and stared at this toothpaste tube… ten, fifteen minutes? I wish I knew why this simple chore is so difficult? Why do I kid myself? I do know. It’s because the blasted toothpaste companies make it so darn hard for those of us who care about our weight! It just makes me so… Read More Toothpaste – micro fiction… Read More Toothpaste – micro fiction
In Part One of my three-part series about Writing Prompts, I went over some of the pros and cons of why writers need writing prompts. I talked about how they work like exercise for our imaginations. They stretch the muscles in our mind that force us to strengthen our writing skills. Before I go… Read More Why We Need Writing Prompts. Part II… Read More Why We Need Writing Prompts. Part II