I wrote this story about a month for round one of the Yeah Write fiction superchallenge. I made it through the first round, so apparently the judges liked it! Let me know what you think! Launch Angie sat

Well hello there! I know, I know... it’s been THREE MONTHS since I last posted on here! It’s been awhile, but darnit, life just gets in the way sometimes. So I’m here to introduce myself again, and this

Josephine sat in the front of the airship peering out the window, her pashmina pulled tightly around her shoulders, barely staving off the cold threatening to creep in. The front of the gondola always

Marooned I realized there’s something wrong with this island as soon as I crawled up the beach. Well, maybe that’s a lie. I was too out of breath and thankful that I made it to solid ground. I spent several

Ferry to Paradise A whistle jolted Amanda awake. Sweat soaked her body, but she didn’t feel the water pressing around her. A warm breeze was blowing through the curtains. It must have been a dream. She

Here is my final gazania (see @caleblailmusik?!) Sadly, there aren’t anymore pictures until the snow melts and it warms up around here! Enjoy this last one, I think it’s my favorite!

Here is my third day of the color challenge and my third color of gazanias! These flowers were absolutely beautiful all summer and just kept blooming!!!

Here are more gazanias for your viewing splendor!

This is the first time I’m doing one of the color challenges. This is a gazania that I grew on my front porch this past summer. These gazanias were some of the prettiest flowers I’ve ever seen and I hope

This is a different kind of story than the ones I have posted so far. It’s experimental and more of a “tour” than a story as such. Enjoy! The Funhouse Welcome to our home! We are glad you could join us

i wrote this about two years ago. It was the first story I had written in about a decade. I hope you enjoy it! Off-Piste Deirdre knew it was going to happen before Becky even landed. As Becky started her

Here’s a little piece of flash fiction I wrote. It’s probably one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it. Tessa “One hundred.” Tessa dragged the brush through her hair. Her mother rubbed Tessa’s hair between

In a few weeks, I’ll be participating in the New York City Midnight Short Story Competition. I will have a week to write a story based on three prompts that I’m given in under 2500 words. This is just

This post is at the request of @sykochica and @matytan, who I was lucky enough to meet in the general chat last night. (If you haven’t checked it out, you seriously should!) I wandered in there last night

Over the past two years, I have participated in a number of writing competitions. This is one of the stories that I had the most success with. It was “runner-up” in the Winter Writing Contest in 2016 through

This evening I had a LONG drive home from work. There was a HUGE accident on the thruway, I had to pick up my kids from their father’s, and all the ways Home were completely jammed. Ended up spending almost

DO NOT READ THIS UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE WATCHED THE LAST JEDI!! There are spoilers!* YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED… Love it or hate it, The Last Jedi presented an interesting situation that made me rethink everything

As an educator, I often get told how “lucky” I am to have holidays and summers “off”. Most educators bristle at this statement. My response is generally the same - you can barely handle your kids for the

So... I am doing some last minute Christmas shopping at my least favorite place in the world. My boyfriend’s family is doing a Christmas Eve KINKY secret Santa gift exchange, so I have to pick up something

Most people have certain things they do every year to celebrate Christmas. I bake sugar and gingerbread cookies, take the kids to see the lights, and watch Die Hard while wrapping presents. You heard me