Writes and Wrongs #2: Basic Dialogue Punctuation
When you teach you learn. First, I want to take a tangent. If you don’t want to read my introduction drivel, click here. I believe in those above words. Out … Continue reading
Yeah Write #25: Unmatched (#flashfiction)
On the left foot, a tall nylon sock styled as a buskin. Could you make a windsock out of socks? The right: a knee-high, rainbow-striped toe sock. Why let meaningless … Continue reading
Protected: Yeah Write #24: Options Open (#flashfiction)
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Writes and Wrongs #1: Fun with Dialogue Punctuation (#writingtips)
I love dialogue. Sometimes I will write a scene just so I can use a quippy exchange later. I adore how you can produce a different pace and evoke feeling … Continue reading
Protected: What’s Up Doc #13: Mindful Things — #NYCMidnight SSC Round 1 GR10
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Yeah Write #23: Poker Face (#flashfiction)
“Raise. Organic Milk — $1.00 off — doubles on Mondays.” “Damn. I’m out.” “Me too.” “Bullshit. Call.” A $3.00 Kaas gourmet cheese coupon floats upon the poker pot. A collective … Continue reading
What’s Up Doc #12: It Is Out of My Hands ( #amwriting )
The deed is done. It is out of my hands. I have submitted my first short story to a contest for the first time in twenty years. I haven’t gotten … Continue reading
Protected: Yeah Write #22: Beauty and Beasts (#flashfiction)
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Poems Not Prose #6: Writer’s Tug of War (A Haiku – #amwritingpoetry)
I type a story, to lose yourself in its plot. In a file, it sits.
Yeah Write #21: The Walking Stone (#flashfiction)
Left, Huh! Right, Hoh! A hundred voices repeat the rhythm. Devotees heave ropes taught. The megalith rocks, it falls, it waddles — its 5-ton balance engineered by masons’ precision. … Continue reading
Protected: Yeah Write #20: Pecker Bridge (#flashfiction)
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Protected: Yeah Write #19: What She Is (Excerpt) — Girlfight ( #amwriting )
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Yeah Write #18: Tank (#flashfiction)
For ninety-two years, she’d leave the tube tank and enter the twenty-six foot deep observation aquarium. She swam melancholy circles; show time simulated life; the people cheered. Saviors opened … Continue reading
Protected: Yeah Write #17: Incendiary ( #flashfiction )
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Yeah Write #16: High Revelers (#flashfiction)
Nikki stared dumbstruck at the forty-somethings laughing, munching, and oozing on furniture. “Honey!” Her mother gave her a sloppy kiss, “You missed the best chocolate cake ever!” A melted birthday candle … Continue reading
Yeah Write #15: Sharp (Microstory #247)
“When will they melt, Momma!?” We gawked at the cold, avant-garde chandelier. Clear, glass tubes sharpened to icicle points crowded together forming a spiral dangling from invisible wire. “Oh, at … Continue reading
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