by Rowan | Aug 28, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]It’s been a long, amazing, distracting week. One of my best friends has been in town, after a surprise move from Chicago (where I’d been planning to visit her this fall) to the East Coast....
by Nathan James | Aug 25, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Simmering summer I was flabbergasted by the parade of Back to School pictures marching through my social media feeds last week. We’re not even close to Labor Day, I thought. Why are kids headed back so early? Did their parents...
by Natalie DeYoung | Aug 18, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] First day of school! I hope you’re thinking of a tiny clownfish chanting this phrase, because every year since I first time heard Nemo trumpet this refrain in unabashed glee, I try to channel the same...
by Nathan James | Aug 11, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Unfiltered I just came back from a sun-baked week on the beach. Every year a few of my college friends and I rent out cottages in a little clapboard “resort.” During our stay, two tribes form: the kids’ caravan...
by Natalie DeYoung | Aug 4, 2015 | Fiction|Poetry, the speakeasy, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] August blues So, August. This is the month when I’m so hot and sticky all the time that I really don’t expect very much from myself, especially when it comes to writing. My style stretches and...
by Rowan | Jul 31, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Scarcity, even artifically created scarcity, drives price, as anyone who has ever played Magic: The Gathering can tell you. Fortunately, there are things that are both priceless and free, like tonight’s...