Here is another excerpt from one of my meatspace (real life) journals. Enjoy! — ENTRIES I: “Physical exercise is a foreign event with me. I played basketball with my wife at the courts outside and across the street. We took the baby with us but she was too short to play and anyway, she much preferred to throw/drop the ball to the ground and clap instead.” — Okay, so...
A fear of darkness is a fear of change. But in a dark room your eyes will adjust, with time.
Hello you. I wanted to post up this first draft so my fellow writers could get an idea of my process and compare it to their own, and to give everyone else something to read. WARNING: This short story draft may be disturbing because it deals with murder. Not suitable for young readers. NOTE: This story is not set in a specific place and time, it is just one man’s experience through a...
August 21 God bless us all that sit here in this shelter tonight. The weather has cleared up and Agetha and Darleen have been keeping us fed and functioning. Ten days ago, I didn’t think I would live to see my thirtieth birthday, but now that it is here, and it is the first day of quiet in days, I feel a little better about all of it. I’m drinking now. I drink a lot now. Dammed if I...
Prompt: write a scene where a soldier prepares for battle. — The writing is ugly, but it has to be mine. The jagged letters make out my name on the small white patch I sew onto the back of my tunic. JAMES C. MERVIN I pray that Mama and Sis find me, if I am to die in the morning. General Grant wants to keep on the reds the next day, but a lot of the boys think we shouldn’t. Tomorrow...
Word: chase – The crashing of tin and stiff paper sounds closer each time I hear him behind me. The noise chases the blood from my back and I don’t feel anything now. I don’t feel anything except fear and fear. How long is he going to chase me? It’s been an hour, it’s been two, it’s had to have been an hour by now. I can’t breathe and my shins wont pick up the...
Here is a new type of prompt where I take the summary of a news story and write a scene that is somehow related. Let me know if you have any prompt ideas for me, because I’d love to write them. — Prompt: “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are turning the GOP’s greatest political liability — a proposal to drastically restructure Medicare for seniors — into a sharp attack against...
A mind is like candlelight, it needs to be still to shine brightest.