by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 19, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
See Spot Run I saw a Dalmation in the woods today and it made me realize it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen this particular breed. One of my classmates in graduate school had one, an extremely well-behaved dog named Jupiter, who would sit in the...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 15, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Quiet as Mice Ambient noise camouflages the ringing in my ears. Honestly, I don’t know how long this has been going on since for over a decade, my husband has snored SO loudly that I can’t hear anything else when my body decides to wake up at 3am. When he...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 12, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Orange You Glad? I know, I know. I AM that kind of person. But orange you glad that Sumos are back in season? And before you get on my case, yes, I know the oranges in the photo are not Sumos, but sometimes a person has to make do. Also, orange you glad it’s...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Feb 5, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Sweet Treat I wasn’t going to write about sweets but this photo is so pretty that I’m just going with it. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth anymore, which is a big change from when I was younger, but small beautiful treats like this are always very...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 22, 2020 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Manatee Me When I saw this photo, I knew I had to choose it. I have always wanted to see manatees but the few times I’ve been to Florida, I wasn’t in the places they frequent. In March, I’m going with my sister to West Palm Beach, which...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jan 18, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
See a Movie, then Write I have been going to a lot of movies over the past few months, after years of rarely seeing any. Writing a screenplay is obviously different from writing a short story, but you can get some interesting ideas from watching movies, like how time...
