I tried for humor with this one. The prompt is: Pixabay.com/photos/house-green-grass-iceland-village-4811590. The Trouble With Turf Susan...

Hello, again! If you've been following along, you know I took a break from the Fiction Writers Group, but also from Facebook in general...

I've missed a couple of weeks--my apologies. The work in my MA in Publishing program is much more than I anticipated. I love it though....

I missed last week since Carly and I were on a cruise and the WiFi sucked. But here's this week's entry--a tiny portal fantasy that...

I love London, just sayin'. Here's a tale set in an indeterminate past, future, or perhaps a parallel world. Taking inspiration from...

I got confused by time zones again last week. I had mine written, but being in the Mountain time zone, I missed the deadline. I did post...

I missed a week or two. I've been traveling and just started my MA program at Western Colorado University, so I've been super busy. In...

I wrote this one on the flight to Vegas--in First Class! Inspired by: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/bridge-forest-fantasy-trees-light...

I missed last week again. I was writing several pieces for competitions--Writers of the Future, NYC Midnight's 100 Word Microfiction...

Can a villain be sympathetic? Even a destroyer of worlds? I've never written a sympathetic villain. Every character should have flaws,...

I missed last week, recovering from COVID. This week's entry started out as a literary piece full of angst, but quickly turned to the...

I've taken a few weeks off for a variety of reasons, but I'm resuming this week. This one is inspired by a couple things: a recent...

This entry could be the prologue to a novel I want to write someday. I've written it in my head many times. Maybe I'll get it down in...

I was traveling the last couple of Fridays, so I missed two weeks in a row. This week, though, I got a strange inspiration from the...

This one is a bit of a genre mashup. I think I even invented a new word for it, "Mistpunk." I admit Steampunk is not a favorite genre of...

Somehow, my mind keeps going back to haunted B&Bs. Go figure. pixabay.com/photos/living-room-victorian-historic-581073 Flowers Under...

I was in Colorado Springs at the Superstars Writing Seminar 2022 last week, and the timezones screwed me up. Well, the bourbon had...

There isn't much of story to this one, I'm afraid. photo courtesy of Becky Strike, Oak Alley Plantation, LA. The Color Doesn't Matter...

I've been negligent the last few weeks, but I'm back. At least this week. This one is inspired by: Pixabay.com/photos/ufos-space-stars-sp...

This one came pretty easy, maybe fifteen minutes for the draft. It's called "What Lives They Contain," and could be the prologue of a...