by Stacie Dalrymple | Jul 10, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Empty Nester My older son just left for a business trip to Israel and my younger son is in California with his cousin so I’m an empty nester, at least for the next few days. It’s strange after having such a bustling household over the last year. Not to...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Jul 3, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
She’s Baaaack Did you guys miss me? I took a few weeks off, in case you didn’t notice, and spent the last ten days in Northern California wine country! Ahhh, it’s so nice there, I already want to go back. Of course, it’s exciting to be back at...
by Asha Rajan | Jul 3, 2019 | Challenge, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
Surprise! Hi everyone, it’s Asha. I’m excited to be back at the micro desk this month while Christine takes a well earned break. It’s been a den of disease at my place recently, with one person after another floored by the ‘flu. Aside from the...
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 Christine Hanolsy | May 29, 2019 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Stormy weather All over the US we’ve been having some pretty wild weather: tornadoes, thunderstorms, excessive heat—and it’s only June. I know it’s a sign of the times (climate change, anyone?) and I should anticipate it by now, but I just...
