by YeahWrite Editor | Dec 31, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Germ-free One of the (many) weird things about the times we’re living through is balancing our need for social interactions while managing our comfort level of exposure to the Covid variant du jour. Nothing highlighted that need more than deciding to go to...
by YeahWrite Editor | Dec 24, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Omicron, oh omicron I live in a relative utopia. I’m not being facetious, or delusional. For the last two years, as Covid19 and its offspring have ravaged the world, life has been pretty much normal in my state. We’ve barely worn masks, had less than a...
by YeahWrite Editor | Nov 26, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
But My Panic Room Is Nice I don’t know about you but society seems to be picking back up lately. This week before Thanksgiving has been the busiest I’ve been since the pandemic started. My tolerance for being busy has lowered, I’ve noticed. Days when...
by YeahWrite Editor | Nov 19, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Oooh, baby Listen, I spent the day with a baby today. I got to hold her, feed her, burp her, and sniff that gorgeous new baby smell that wafts from the top of her teeny tiny head. And because I’m not the parent, I had none of the associated stresses. I could...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 22, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings I love October. The wool jackets and the falling leaves. Little kids in costumes, freaky movie marathons. It just doesn’t get any better. But about two-thirds of the way through my wheels screech and I veer off...
by YeahWrite Editor | Oct 15, 2021 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Who goes there? This season of life has been especially harrowing, calling me to transform at a moment’s notice. A month ago, I had no work. Now, I have been thrown two compressed writing classes, with a week to prepare for each of them. Two months ago, my...
