May 10, 2021 | Jennifer Anne Burke, Writers
Today, it is a rainy Sunday. Not quite noon, and I’m sitting at my laptop listening to the rain crash hard on the flat roof above me. It is dark out, the skies are rumbling, and I’m wondering what to do next… Why not write? It is May 2021, and here on the shores of...
Mar 23, 2021 | Carolyn Helfenstein, Writers
This is not an ordinary obituary. Farm dogs guard the farmer’s home, their loud dependable bark announces incoming cars and trucks. They make doorbells unnecessary. And within a five second sniff of a truck wheel an average farm dog can determine where a truck has...
Feb 27, 2021 | Shane Joseph, Writers
Everyone is writing a pandemic journal, it seems. We all want to capture this lost time that will soon disappear (we hope) when the vaccine makes its way into our arms, when we forget face masks, and how to socially distance, and the acronyms PPE, PCR and RNA. We want...
Sep 26, 2020 | Linda Hutsell-Manning, Writers
Photo by Brendan O’Donnell from Unsplash we were to say the least amotley crew of womenmiddle-aged recruitmentsfrom the local temp employmentmeeting every morning outbehind the plant down in theparking lot where Joe whohad seen better days waitedin his rusted eighties...
Aug 25, 2020 | Felicity Sidnell Reid, Writers
Chris the Story Reading Ape’s blog announces the release of Felicity Sidnell Reid’s new e-book: Felicity is excited to announce that almost five years after the publication of Alone: A Winter in the Woods as a print edition(Hidden Brook Press 2015), the book is now...
Jul 31, 2020 | Shane Joseph, Writers
Photo by Jair Lazaro from Unsplash “So, if you quit writing fiction, why are you releasing another novel?” my rational self asks me. “For God’s Sake, man!” this know-it-all-self erupts in more self-righteousness, “the world is in lockdown, people have no money for...
