by Rowan | Mar 25, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here Coffee. Sweet elixir of life. I don’t care if you drink black coffee, lattes, chicory or butter coffee. Even the ritual of coffee is a comforting presence in our...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 25, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! Sometimes what we don’t say is as important as what we do. This is true in all writing but especially in microstories, where you’ve got an extremely limited space in which to...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 18, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! What do you do to escape? Do you run? Swim? Read? Bake? Do you travel, visit new towns and mountains, galaxies and universes? Maybe you write. Or maybe writing is not an escape, but...
by Rowan | Mar 13, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Winners, YeahWrite
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort. Those aren’t the first words in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, but they’re the first ones I read, and they caught me immediately. This, I thought, is how you tell...
by Rowan | Mar 11, 2015 | Challenge, Fiction|Poetry, gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Nonfiction, the speakeasy, Voting, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vote for your favorite nonfiction, fiction and microstories here. Also, Rowan swears in this post. [editor’s note: this rant has been sitting in my drafts folder for several months. I reached critical mass this week but that...
by Christine Hanolsy | Mar 11, 2015 | gargleblaster, micro challenge, microfiction, Microprose, Open, YeahWrite
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Greetings Earthlings! This one time, at band camp*, I found myself stuck in the middle of a fight. There were nine of us in a drafty A-frame – it would have been ten, but Melissa couldn’t handle...
