This poem is my entry in @rensoul17's Writing Impact Challenge ( This is such a cool contest, amazing submissions so far, and still time to enter if you'd like to participate (the deadline is Feb 28).

So, today's winner is @simms50 So, let's support our winners, go visit @simms50 and leave a comment or two, find something to upvote if you can! Let's build community! Welcome to # 10, of my U Pick the

Message in a Bottle #25 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @jrhughes Recipients: Steemit Creatives Anthology Updates It’s been four weeks since we first announced that we would be collecting Steemit Fiction

(image source: I don't think I can write just one piece for this contest! So I've sorted my supernatural experiences into categories, and for this piece I've chosen to write about interesting experiences

Welcome To The Writing Impact Challenge The purpose of this challenge is two-fold (1) To create a literary piece of beautiful art (2) to write something that evokes a certain feeling, so that your readers

They say real girls wear pearls and polka dot skirts. They speak in whispers and seldom make noise. They walk softly, on tippy toes Softly, too, in just the right heels appropriately lady-like and not

I know it's been a few months since I posted the last of these, but such is the life of a writer, one as disorganized and at times, lazy as this one. But be that as it may, here is the next chapter of

Message in a Bottle #24 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @jrhughes Recipients: Steemit Creatives Islander Highlights - Week Four! Each week we aim to give back to our lovely community by highlighting some

Message in a Bottle #21 Origin: The Isle of Write Sender: @jrhughes Recipients: Steemit Creatives Fiction Anthologies Curation Update! It’s well past time for us to share with the Steemit Seas our latest

My poem was inspired by watching a dog sleeping, with their eyelids twitching. What began as a curiosity about animals and dreaming soon gave way to a meditation on the human condition. This piece is

Welcome to the first part of The Masters Plan, an action noir novel exclusive to Steemit. I am going to try to post a new section each Sunday until the story is complete. Logline: A straight-laced cop

Message in a bottle #20 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @authorofthings Recipients: Steemit Creatives Apologies for this post being a day late. We might have imbibed a bit too much of that ever-free-flowing

In spirit of Curie's mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes

Message in a Bottle #19 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @authorofthings Recipients: Steemit Creatives Islander Highlights - Valentine Edition! It’s Valentine’s Day, so naturally, we’re going to bring you

#Unafraid It is only melting away And into Deep, deep, deep Your wings Folded into mine, A perfect fit We will fly High but slow As if in deep sleep We will drip Into each other's pores Drop by drop We

(me skiing in the tundra at about 40 below) Unraveling My grandmother died of a broken arm. Not technically, but that’s how I remember it. She’d been in a bad motorcycle accident; suffered a severe concussion

The Making of a Reb, Part 3 “When was your last test, Carter?” He stills, stares at me, uncomprehending. “Your balance test, Carter, the last one, when?” My voice is loud now, demanding. Carter doesn’t

First - a caveat. While I use ‘Borsht’ in the title, no self-respecting Russian would either spell or pronounce it this way. It really should be “Borsh” and so that’s what I’m going to call it. A few things

image credit Pixabay A Gift “I have a gift for you.” She turns, looks at him, the face she knows so well. He’s smiling at her one of his secret, soft smiles, not the stilted kind he usually has on. She

The ancient sage was wrong. Hell is not other people. It’s the absence of the right ones. Or the one. She sat on the edge of a colossal tortoise-shaped rock, staring at the reflections of vivid pinks and