Twenty tomatoes fresh from the garden wanting to become something, like purée. She had to go do something for her elderly Mom, And left them, sitting there, alone, with me. I first lined them up like soldiers and gave them a bath. Then, in this big pan I found, I boiled some water. I submersed […]
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Haiku is a specific form of poetry. It is a lot harder to write than it first appears. Here are my first two attempts.
This is to document what I learned about Flash Fiction in the past few days. Depending on who you read, it is defined anywhere from Ernest Hemingway’s six word story: “For Sale, baby shores, never worn.” to stories containing 1000 to 1500 words. According to Wikipedia, there are 280-character stories (also known as “twitterature“); the “dribble” (also known […]
This month’s writing assignment is based on an idea that came to Jane Murphy from the book: “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I read about half the book. It did stimulate thought, but I felt disconnected reading just random writings placed under different letters in the alphabet. Jane’s idea was for us […]
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Hiking with my Daughter
This post is a story. It is fairly long one for a post – about 5,800 words. It is about a hike my daughter and I took in early July, 2018. But it also contains back stories about events leading up to that hike. All the stories in this post have a common theme. I’ll let the reader figure out what they are. Comments are welcome.