by Asha Rajan | Oct 31, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Are you all sugared up on Halloween candy? Are houses in your street all decked out in spider webs and spooky finery? It’s not a big celebration in Australia, and I really miss it. I miss the tiny children who’d come to the door, dressed as a superhero or...
by Rowan | Oct 30, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Hurtling toward… 500. That’s right, it’s been almost 500 consecutive weeks of YeahWrite. OK, it’s been like 38 weeks of lovelinks and a couple hundred of yeah write and then the rest as YeahWrite but our point is, Captain Nitpickersons, that...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Oct 28, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Gimme All The Blanklets It’s been rainy and cold all day here, with more of that tomorrow and maybe even some SNOW on Friday and I just cannot with early snow. In particular, my beef is that I have to go outside anyway because dogs. But what I really want to do...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Oct 24, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Kickoff, Nonfiction, YeahWrite
Mycelium I used to think mushrooms were whole plants. Now when I see them on my walks in the woods I know what they are: fruiting bodies of a much bigger system. See, the mushroom is more like an apple than a tree. That’s how they can pop up so quickly:...
by Rowan | Oct 23, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Winners, YeahWrite
Can’t can Or, rather, I can can, and I’m so tired of canning that the five back to back 12-hour days I just worked felt like a respite. I have apple butter, plum butter, sauerkraut (that’s not canned, if you’re keeping score; it’s...
by Stacie Dalrymple | Oct 21, 2020 | Fiction|Poetry, Nonfiction, Voting, YeahWrite
Geese Gone Most of the New England geese have already migrated south for the winter, and I’m so jealous that I can’t just fly south too, although not now, definitely not now. I wouldn’t miss the most spectacularly beautiful time of year; I...
