I recently had the opportunity to attend an Indie Authors Night at a local bookstore and I have to say, it was fantastic. There was a panel of 20 authors ranging in age from 10 to well, I don’t know exactly, but that doesn’t matter. The books they published spanned everything from kid-lit, science fiction, …
This was my entry for the Spring Contest at Short Fiction Break. The theme for the contest was to write a story about someone in a hole. I took on this challenge as a way to try writing in a genre that I’ve never written in before, as well as attempting another short story. * …
“What do you mean, you can’t get here?” she bellowed. Wow, I wouldn’t want to be the person on the other end of that phone call, I thought to myself. Even over the noise of blaring taxi horns, trash trucks, and commuters carrying on work-related conversations, this woman’s voice rose above them all. “I don’t …
There is a crack in my soul left by you You came in like a powerful wave sweeping me off my feet Pulling me under letting me come back up to gasp for air Then you went away back out to the sea never to return the same again I don’t love you I love the …