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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

February 3, 2016 · 6 Comments

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.  

January 31, 2016 · 2 Comments

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

January 27, 2016 · 5 Comments

Protected: Yeah Write #20: Pecker Bridge (#flashfiction)

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Writing on the Fly #11: What She Is (Excerpt) — Guard Down

Note:  I’m feeling quite discouraged today, but I sat down and wrote anyway.  For those who are new, WOtF is an exercise I do for myself.   I sit and write … Continue reading

January 21, 2016 · 2 Comments

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

January 19, 2016 · 13 Comments

Writing on the Fly #10: What She Is (Excerpt) — An Honored Guest

Note:  I have been having a real hard time finishing my novella, but I did manage to write something today.  Progress at least!   “Ojama shimasu.” Troy stared at Inez … Continue reading

January 16, 2016 · 2 Comments

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

January 13, 2016 · 2 Comments

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

January 6, 2016 · 20 Comments

Writing on the Fly #9: What She Is (Excerpt) — Strange Bedfellows

Note:  This is part of a much larger story from my novella-in-progress.   Writing on the Fly is an exercise I have been using when I have gotten stuck and feel … Continue reading

January 5, 2016 · 2 Comments

Protected: Yeah Write #12: Unauthorized Entry (What She Is – Excerpt #amwriting )

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Protected: Writing On the Fly #8: A Half Plus Seven ( #amwriting )

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Yeah Write #8: Stains (Microstory #244)

One circular spot, where a pot once lived, on the hospital floor defied the glossy polish.   Jai left rings: coffee prints on paper, a mystery loop on the new … Continue reading

December 16, 2015 · 19 Comments

Yeah Write #: Tune In Turn Off (Microstory #243)

Every morning for a month the rat-a-tat jazzy beat of the resident woodpecker thrumming my house rips me from dreams.  I bolt a feline stairway to heaven to the side … Continue reading

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Writing on the Fly #7: What She Is (The Time After)

This scene I wrote to occur just before the scene found in the exerpt “The Whole Megillah” Inez surfaced from dark memories curled on her side and clutching the edge … Continue reading

December 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

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