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Creative Community Convergence 2022!

If an angel asked me where heaven is, I'd point to Victor's rancho. [...]

And the winner is?

Our most recent kontest, the Kafka Konundrum, kouldn't kaptivate our readers. My apologies--usually I put [...]

1 Comment

Jose Monroy is Circling Back* with the Leader!

*If you don't know what that means, then you've been spared the horror of Zoom [...]

Diana Diehl’s Supernova of Inspiration!

"If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science." [...]

Defrosting the Past: A.L. Paradiso’s Christmas Memories

"Save the neck for me, Clark!" [...]

Goddess of Nothing! Judge Chase Katz Shall Not Bow!

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” ― William Shakespeare, A [...]

The Kafka Konundrum: Our newest contest

What happens when nothing happens? [...]

4 Comments

And the winner is….$1,000 richer today

Getting your teeth into a story requires a little bridgework [...]

3 Comments

Lucien Zell Can Keep a Secret…Can you? Entry #37

"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."--Elie Wiesel [...]

1 Comment

Judge Chase Katz Knows That Love Hurts! Entry #36

In wine, there is truth. But in sobriety, there is change. [...]

Roderick D. Mitchell Jr. Serves His Revenge Ice Cold! Entry #35

"Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell."--Walter Scott, "The [...]

Amy Stokes Will Be Home for Christmas! Entry #34

"Well, I don't know what to say except it's Christmas and...we're all in misery."--Ellen Griswold [...]

H. Robert Rubin Scores a Hole in One! Entry #33

"Just taaaaaaap it in."--from "Happy Gilmore" [...]

The deadline approaches

Care for a little green with your turkey? [...]

Dakota Brown Coming in with a Big Bang! Entry #32

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very [...]

Pamela Jameson Tells Us a Winter’s Tale! Entry #31

Rage! Rage against the dying of the light!--from "Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight" [...]

Derek Thompson’s Got a Different Kinda Tablet! Entry #30

How magical! [...]

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Woya Machae Spoons Us Up a Story! Entry #29

Born (to) a silver spoon! [...]

Lew Decker is Leaving on a Jet Plane! Entry #28

You WERE the wind beneath my wings... [...]

The Thousand Dollar Turkey

1000 greens to go with Thanksgiving dinner [...]

1 Comment

Brian J Callaghan Erupts! Entry #27

"That was when it started getting dark...Then I knew, even before the people at the [...]

Promising You This Land…Tom Averna Entry #26

"...but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not [...]

The Sky Is Falling for Tim Dwyer! Entry #25

What type of star is a criminal? A shooting star! [...]

Aurora Suzanne Has Put a Spell On Us…Entry #24

She HAS put a spell on us. And now? We're hers. [...]

Kristine Rose Ain’t Clownin’ Around! Entry #23

"That was quite a show--very entertaining...but it's over now...go on and take a bow..."--"Take a [...]

Stefanie Allison is definitely ticked-off! Entry # 22

Where the hell am I? [...]

Christmas Has Come Early! Jacek Skyrzypczynski Entry #21

Even in the darkness of winter and war, the light of human faith and tenacity [...]

Orange You Glad Julie Dunaway Is Here? Entry #20

"Orange is the happiest color"--Frank Sinatra [...]

Mark Cohen Objects! Entry #19

"Study the past if you would divine the future." Confucius [...]

Jon Tobias is Knock-Knock-Knocking on Heaven’s Door! #18

"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief, but gratitude." Thornton Wilder [...]

Important notice! That Game of Thorn’s!

We're extending the deadline to enter the competitionfor the most compelling first 1,000 words [...]

1 Comment

A Bridge (Not) Too Far for Mischka Blank! Entry #17

Stone tape theory: the theory that emotional moments can be "recorded" by rocks, stones, and [...]

Down the Barrel of a Gun…Derek Hatcher Entry #16

"Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago." -- Eliot Ness, "The Untouchables" [...]

1 Comment

Kristy Webster-Gonzalez Is Seeing Red–Entry #15

"Oh, that red hair of hers is no lie." Michaleen Flynn, from "The Quiet Man" [...]

2 Comments

R.H. Hugo Has Us in Orbit! Entry #14

How many times has a person pulled us in...never knowing if it is a planet, [...]

1 Comment

Your invitation to a webinar

"It's none of their business you had to learn how to write. Let them [...]

2 Comments

Parched for Freedom…Mike Casper #13

"In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland..." Isaiah 43:19 [...]

1 Comment

Jose Monroy Is High as a Cloud! Entry #12

The future looks a little cloudy... [...]

1 Comment

Cat Got Your Tongue, Miryam Howard? Entry #11

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... [...]

5 Comments

Melinda Reidinger mounts up: Entry #10

She tells him their strategy: they will feign an amorous mood and walk down to [...]

2 Comments

Inheriting Trouble: Author Nancy Milby takes us to France with Entry #9

A French cafe' under siege! Is nothing sacred? [...]

1 Comment

Puppy love. Sarah Z Sleeper is contestant #8

Certainly, this couldn’t be one of the dogs she was promising to kill. [...]

1 Comment

David Brin–and I thought 7 was a lucky number! A leap of faith.

He was a Da--aa--aay trader! One way ticket yeah... [...]

Holly Butler plucks a few strings: Entry #6

“I’m the most successful failure in Nashville,” [...]

1 Comment

The Diary of Bobbie Mcbride: entry #5

Nobody writes like Jane Austin anymore [...]

1 Comment

Hextrader: the Cinnamon Prince–entry # 4 in our contest

She was cursed. I could always tell. It was a malicious one, a hex that [...]

4 Comments

Comancheria-1836…Our second entry in our $1,000 competition

Can just 1,000 words earn $1,000? [...]

4 Comments

Legend Blues…our first entry in A Thou$and Reasons to Write

How does a dollar a word sound to you? [...]

4 Comments

A thou$and reasons to write

Our most ambitious contest [...]

3 Comments

The Third Whale

What sacrifice could you make in the name of love? [...]

Get back to where you once belonged

Once there was a way to get back home [...]

The time to hesitate is through!

Our first post-covid writerly thing! [...]

Apprentice sorcerer/sorceress wanted

Help me save the world! [...]

Fire in the Belly

"The most powerful weapon on Earth is a spirit on fire." Ferdinand Foch, prevailing French [...]

Solidarity, a poem of protest for our Essential Americans anthology

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain." Bob Dylan [...]

When does history refuse to repeat itself?
What really matters? Ask Kristine Grant

Imagine all the people... [...]

A Olympic gold-medalist entry to Essential Americans Anthology

"But where are you FROM?" [...]

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Tinted Windows

"I see thugs deserving punishment." [...]

Help me Mama, I can’t breathe

Perhaps this is the anthem of despair [...]

The Genesis of Fear: Wendy Joseph comments

"Not all bombs are nuclear." [...]

Popping the bubble: Stephanie McCoy hands us a pin.

“Not being racist” is not enough to suppress white supremacy. [...]

On the Practice of Breathing…we begin to tell your stories

Sometimes, all I need is.... [...]

1 Comment

Essential Americans Anthology

"...There are sorrows to be healed, and mercy, mercy in this world..." (Leonard Cohen) [...]

Apathy is brutal–here is your personal invitation to action

“The reason there is evil in the world is that people are not able to [...]

Black lives, tattered

"The reason there is evil in the world is because people don't get to tell [...]

3 Comments

The Envelope Is Mightier Than the E-Mail

"Sometimes, the old ways are best." --Eve Moneypenny, "Skyfall" (2012) [...]

3 Comments

Online writers’ clubbing on Internations

We connected the world. Mission accomplished. [...]

Coronan the Barbarian

"I am the distance you put between all of the moments that we will be." [...]

8 Comments

Whatever comes up! Prof. Ron McFarland guides readers through 17th century England

It’s the verbs, man, the verbs! [...]

1 Comment

Happy World Poetry Day!

Is this going to be a federally recognized holiday yet? [...]

Whatever comes up! Prof. Ron McFarland goes forward to the past

My father was a man who would pull over and read nearly any historical marker [...]

Whatever comes up! Prof. Ron McFarland shares his writing secrets

All writers are 'opportunists,' maybe even 'shameless opportunists.' [...]

The un-bear-able lightness of Elderberry wine

Miryam Howard-Meier's walk in the woods [...]

3 Comments

Out, damned spot! Georgia Hubley wines about her butler, entry#5

The butler gets called on the carpet [...]

2 Comments

Not Your Normal Author (Part 2): David Boop’s influences, both reality and fantasy

Sell me on your reality first before you sell me on your fantasy. [...]

Tobias? or Not Tobias? An Entry into Something to Wine About

The wine bottle stutters [...]

1 Comment

Not Your Normal Author (Part 1): David Boop transforms 50 years of sensory input into art

Cross genre seems to be where my brain wants to go. [...]

Disorder in the Court! Michael Dilts enters a plea and our contest!

The old changing water into wine offense--oops! DEfense! [...]

1 Comment

Broody New Englander (Part 3): Kenneth Weene explores creative choice

I cannot tell you what personal scab lies underneath each of my works, at least [...]

Prooof Reeding!

That Game of Thorn's [...]

Broody New Englander (Part 2): Kenneth Weene on humanity and salvation’s broken promise

I am a teller of tales. Perhaps that is not salvation, but for me it [...]

Broody New Englander: Actually, Kenneth Weene has a wicked sense of humor

Humor not only improves perspective, defuses tension, reduces anxiety, and displaces anger, but it also [...]

Editor, Writer, Mother: Tiffany Vakilian shares her influences and experiences

I love being a freelancer, but no one who does it would ever say it [...]

God Bless us, One and All

Peace on earth, goodwill towards humankind [...]

2 Comments

The Courtesans of God, Chapter Seven

And neither of them could realize that they were falling, not only in love, but [...]

Excalibur: Robert Marazas takes a stab at our contest

There's a point to this story [...]

2 Comments

Editor, Writer, Mother: Tiffany Vakilian aspires to transform the word ‘perfect’

I am a humble practitioner of opened eyes and artistic hands. [...]

1 Comment

Imaginative: Elizabeth Price details her most popular work

For the most part, I let the story take me where it wants to go. [...]

Martin David uncorks our contest

I think it's a great story. What's urinalysis? [...]

6 Comments

Imaginative: Elizabeth Price’s mind bridges Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres

I do seek individuality and resent being compared to another writer, regardless if it’s meant [...]

Merry Christmas

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” [...]

6 Comments

Something to wine about: A new contest!

What's your story? [...]

2 Comments

Alpinist of Life (Part 3): Jacek ‘Skyski’ Skrzypczinski shares his writing dreams

Actually, my dream is to speak to Oprah. [...]

The Courtesans of God, Chapter Six

Two Malayan Regulars! This had the makings of a very good story. [...]

Alpinist of Life (Part 2): Jacek ‘Skyski’ Skrzypczinski shares the roadsigns of his path

If you have everything easy, you don’t enjoy it as much as if you had [...]

The Courtesans of God: Chapter Five

Time, the muscle that ripples from the shoulder of God, was flexing once more, pulling [...]

Alpinist of Life (Part 1): Jacek ‘Skyski’ Skrzypczinski guides dreamers to their summit

Everyone’s life is so rich... you should pay attention to it, and then go and [...]

2 Comments

The Courtesans of God, Chapter Four

The tall one is so handsome, she thought. My father will be so proud. I [...]

1 Comment

Working for his muse (Part 2): R. T. Sedgwick engineers his poetic vision

My first measure of a 'good' poem is that its attraction is lasting - I [...]

Reyna Grande

I am sure this was an honest mistake, but according to Reyna, it was (is?) [...]

1 Comment

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