by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
All together now I went to my second grader’s school play today. It wasn’t much in terms of length—only five minutes—but it told the story of an old man who grew an enormous turnip, a turnip so big that he couldn’t pull it out on his own. So the old...
by Christine Hanolsy | Jun 5, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Welcome to the jungle I may live in the city now, but I grew up steps away from the woods. Our backyard was full of all sorts of charismatic critters—and a bunch of less charismatic ones, too. (Don’t ask about the night I mistook a skunk for our black...
by Nathan James | Jun 1, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Microprose, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
The Answer is Iowa For at least a decade now, I’ve been trying to figure out who one of my 2nd great-grandfather’s parents are. Long story short: No one in my family could ever find a paper trail on where he came from. So I’ve been digging and...
by Rowan | May 3, 2019 | Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Sumer is icumen in And I’m not ready for it. The quince is flowering, the dogwoods are getting ready to do their thing, and that darn currant is already setting fruit. It’s going to be a good year for blueberries, too. But it’s been a rough spring,...
by Stacie Dalrymple | May 1, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
O I spy a cuckoo, a cuckoo, a cuckoo It’s the merry month of May, although quite a few folks in the USA and Canada can be forgiven for wondering if they woke up in the wrong hemisphere this week! But where I am (and, I hear, where Rowan and Christine are)...
by Christine Hanolsy | May 1, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
I’ve got sunshine I’ve been accused of being an optimist. A unicorns-and-glitter kind of girl. It’s not untrue, especially when the sun is shining and the birds are singing and the sky is blue. Autumn might be my favorite season, with its crisp...
