I just wrote a story for #amwriting (to be up in July). The only thing I had to start with was a word count of 1000. I also wanted to write an exercise we gave ourselves at Corydon Quills and Quibbles, in which we had…

This story originally appeared in Flash Me online magazine. Sadly, Flash Me is currently on indefinite hiatus. But here is a story. Follow Your Bliss by Marian Allen Bliss backed the pick-up out of the drive, bucking across a decade of dried‑mud corrugations. For ten…

As I sat at the kitchen table this morning, eating frosted bite-sized shredded wheat (aka sugar-coated pot scrubbers) and fresh-picked blueberries (yeah!!), I looked out of the window and saw a cocoon on a twig of the river birch, wiggling from the effort of something…