Category: short story
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The Sum of All Years
I got this fantastic idea from Bonnie Gillespie whom if you don’t know and you’re an actor trying to work, you need to just go down the rabbit hole of her website and all she offers. The Sum of All Years is a writing exercise in which each year of your life is described in…
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Butter on Saltines
“Don’t judge me” I said as I mucked my way through the kitchen. “Don’t tell me what you’re doing because I’m dying to know” replied my uber curious and impatient husband. Taking out the box of gluten free table crackers and smearing butter across them I returned back to write this. My grandmother, Ruth, used…
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Short Story "Purple Cloud" Prompts for Writers
So I subscribe to Creative Writing Prompts blog. Considering the fact that I spent the first day of 2013 watching Serenity and the Walking Dead, sci-fi was a great prompt for me today. Hope you enjoy: She noticed a purple cloud floating toward her. Unable to move, her heart pounding, eyes wide she knew what…
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The Bench
http://promptsforwriters.blogspot.com/ They had tried to spruce up this part of the park, planting trees to replace the one that had been burned but it continued to be a sad space. A space that no one really visited except those with spray paint and bad intentions. Winter had covered the area with a blanket of snow…
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A Winter’s Night – a short story
<!–[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]–> The solar security light was triggered as he crossed the yard. He paused for a moment and then regained his sense of purpose as he approached the cabin. Out here things like cellular service, electricity and phones didn’t exist. Out here, a certain level of respect was garnered for those…
Jennie Olson Six 
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