A Dream of Flight

My friend Soph at Sophia Ismaa Writes knows how much I love to spin a good yarn and knows I'm almost always a sucker for a good tag.  The other day, Soph tagged me with this awesome new (to me, anyway) storytelling challenge.  Thank you, Soph!  After reading her wonderful story, which I hope y'all …

The County Fair, parts 1 & 2

Via The Haunted Wordsmith's 'Finish the Story #9' The other day, my friend The Haunted Wordsmith wrote part 1 of a story titled "The County Fair" then tagged me with her "Finish the Story" challenge.  I finally had some time today to respond.  Below are Wordsmith's rules for the challenge followed by her part 1 …

The Parrot Flew West Parts 1 & 2

My friend Viola Bleu at Ideas Become Words started a story, "The Parrot Flew West", and challenged me and several other Bloggers to take it and run with it.  I did.  I am including Viola's part 1 here for convenience's sake, but please mosey over and take a look at her lovely, inspiring, creative blog …

Steve’s Story, Part 4

I'm availing myself of the penultimate opportunity to participate in WordPress's heretofore unbroken chain of connection and collaboration that is the Daily Post before they yank it out from under us forever.  I already aired my grievances in yesterday's two  posts and have joined Judy Dykstra-Brown's urgent forum seeking to persuade WordPress to change their …

We Created a Beautiful Monster

Thank y'all very much for your love of yesterday's post, "10 Bloggers, 300 Words Each".  That project was way too much fun.  I didn't realize it at the time, but the awesome Bloggers with whom I collaborated and I have apparently created a monster with the fictional Darla Nyte world we developed in that story. …

10 Bloggers, 300 Words Each

Y'all have been waiting patiently, and now this genie's out of the bottle! In March, Em and I had fun collaborating on a short story titled "Sick Day".  We had so much fun, in fact, that we promptly decided to do it again but in a much bigger way.  On March 28th, Em and I …

Call for Collaborators: An Update

Unbeknownst to many but to the eventual delight of all, a powerful creative undercurrent has been churning through a collective consciousness... On March 28th, my friend Em and I simultaneously posted a call for volunteers to help us write a short story.  We decided on a max 3,000-word story to be written by the two …

Call for Collaborators

via Daily Prompt: Quartet At long last, here's the big announcement I've told some of you I'll be making soon! My friend Em and I recently had so much fun with a short story collaboration that we’ve decided to embark upon a similar project, and we want others to join in our fun. Here’s the …

Sick Day pt. 2

via Daily Prompt: Invisible On February 28th, I posted my first piece of flash fiction, titled "Sick Day."  It turned into a collaborative series of sequels written by fellow Bloggers.  I had a great deal of fun with the project but have decided the time has come to bring it to a close, so I'm …

Scarlet Snake Lake

via Daily Prompt: Conjure Word count = 1,037 / Reading time = 5 minutes or less I’ve been meaning for months now to write a new story in my Copperhead County series of short stories but have been lacking inspiration.  As I scrolled through my feed today, I was instantly inspired by a post from …