Weekly Writing Challenges: Microprose Archive
YeahWrite #495 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Broken Webs My (adult) son's girlfriend, who lives with us, wanted to go all out on the Halloween decorations this year, which is particularly fun since who knows if kids will even trick-or-treat. If not, at least they can marvel at our spooky house. If so, I plan to...
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Microfiction. Microprose. Short-short stories. "Drabbles." No matter what your term for the shortest fiction out there is, we love it too. And with only a few tiny weeks remaining in 2020 (seriously? the longest year in ever is almost over?), we thought we'd follow...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #495
Same but different The last few weeks have felt especially hectic and exhausting to me. Or perhaps it's just the accumulated weight of watching the world literally and figuratively burn, combined with the weird survivor's guilt of living in a place where it doesn't...
YeahWrite #491 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Apocalypse when? I'm not writing this post from inside an evacuation zone. But it's close. Close enough that my go bag is packed and I'm sleeping in my clothes tonight. This week, writing is more of an escape than a succor. Also I stress-painted the ceiling? I don't...
YeahWrite #491 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
Small Pleasures I'm watching the news about the fires in my home state of California, and in Oregon, where so many people I love live. I'm seeing friends and family post on Facebook and Instagram. It's terrifying. [Ed's note: The sky is very red and it looks like the...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #491
Spring is springing September's here and it's the beginning of Spring in my part of the world! I love this time of year; the days are warmer, the nights are still cool, there's enough rain to keep everything watered, but not so much that it feels bleak, and the sun is...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners
Dona Nobis Pacem It took a long time to write this post. Not because 2020 is still out there 2020'ing, although you're forgiven if you thought that because it is a totally reasonable thing to think, but because I started picking out a header image and got absolutely...
YeahWrite #486 Weekly Writing Challenge is Open for Popular Voting
[Ed's note- The YeahWrite editors extend our sympathies to those affected by the catastrophe in Beirut. It is our urgent hope that the injured heal and that the missing are returned alive to their loved ones. You are in our hearts this week and we grieve with you for...
Welcome to YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge #486
Stop Bee-ing A Jerk, 2020 Earlier this week, I landed in the emergency room with anaphylaxis. I've had fairly severe local reactions to bee and wasp venom my entire life, so I knew this was a possibility at some point, but 2020 is really trying to go down in history...
YeahWrite #482 Weekly Writing Challenge: Popular Vote Winners and Editors’ Picks
Lost thyme That's not even a pun. A couple weeks ago, in a fit of gardening, I planted thyme in my front yard. And promptly forgot about it, because all the food plants and the herb garden are out back. So I've been diligently watering the crookneck squash, the...
