by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 27, 2014 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write Every year, in celebration of Halloween, I pick up a scary book to read. Sometimes it’s a reread of a classic (The Exorcist was a book before it was a movie, FYI), or...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 27, 2014 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
Oh, is it Halloween? It’s Halloween week around here. Maybe you’ve noticed? My favorite part of the holiday was always to watch horror movies and eat candy. I could do without the answering of the door every three minutes, but then again, I’m a bit...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 24, 2014 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Is anyone else as excited for Halloween as I am? Probably not. Even though I’m an adult and rarely dress up anymore, all the atmospheric spookiness puts me in a good mood. I pull out my copies of The Exorcist...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 21, 2014 | Fiction|Poetry, Open, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Welcome to the fiction and poetry challenge at yeah write Among the hundreds of books I inherited after my sister died was a well-worn paperback of Lorrie Moore’s first novel, Anagrams, published in 1986. I cracked it open and read...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 20, 2014 | Challenge, Open, YeahWrite
It’s all about the process I just finished folding laundry. My son’s pajama shirt, the green one with the glow-in-the-dark dinosaur bones, was sitting in a ball in the basket. Somehow, upon exiting the shirt one morning this week, my son managed to get the...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 17, 2014 | moonshine, YeahWrite
It’s the weekend, so the moonshine grid is open Take a deep breath. Pull off your shoes. Crack open a beer (or juice box, whatever you prefer). The weekend is supposed to be when you relax. The phone stops ringing, the boss-man stops hassling you, and you answer...