I Don’t Care that I’m silhouetted by fire or gold is the color of my back- drop. When a man…
Month: February 2016
Face Card: Queen of Shadows Retrat de la meve germana, 1923/1926 Dalí I think you tried a classic portrait first…
Matthew Sharpe I recently spent about two years writing a lot of very short stories. I started by…
Review by Barbara Harroun – Susan Rukeyser’s debut novel Not On Fire Only Dying turns its perceptive gaze on those…
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” This sentence, often attributed to Ernest Hemingway (although the link to him is said…
Freeing your Strangers We have trapped strangers in the backgrounds of our photographs. Perhaps we are the elderly couple taking…
“A prompt I was given once that spawned one of the most intense stories I’ve ever written is one where…
Jennifer Jean Choose a card from the Tarot deck and write a story inspired by the card–feel free to look…
“Mash Stories www.mashstories.com, has a good system, where they take three words, and then require the participants of each contest…
Many writers are visually inspired. An evocative photo can be a great starting…