For Your Enjoyment: The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon

For Your Enjoyment: The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon (in Apex Magazine). It is 14 thousand words, but worth it. The fantasy aspect of the story doesn't come into play until you've learned to enjoy your narrator's...

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8/26/16: Ekphrastic Exercise: Up on Melancholy Hill

Daily Exercise Genre: Ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is from Greek meaning the description of a work of art as a rhetorical device. That's actually pretty straight forward, but another way to look at it, is it's highfalutin fan...

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8/25/16 Narrative prompt: Not Cinnamon

Narrative Thread: For today's writing exercise begin a story or poem with the following and see where it takes you. "Not Cinnamon," I exclaimed, well knowing it might be my last word...

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For your enjoyment: Campbell McGrath's "Capitalist Poem #5"

For your enjoyment: Campbell McGrath's "Capitalist Poem #5" in its original line configuration. I noticed while trying to link to Campbell McGrath's "Capitalist Poem #5" that the most popular, and potentially the only text...

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Three things exercise: Donald Trump in WWI

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things (ideally, not in throwaway dialog, but as vital pieces of the story): Steel Blue, Normandy, FR, Donald Trump So,...

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Three things exercise: Wheat in New York

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things (ideally, not in throwaway dialog, but as vital pieces of the story): Wheat (color), New York, NY, a flashl...

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Three things exercise: A Yo-Yo in Duluth

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things (ideally, not in throwaway dialog, but as vital pieces of the story): Plum (color), A Yo-Yo, Duluth,...

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Three things exercise: A Raccoon at McDonalds

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things (ideally, not in throwaway dialog, but as vital pieces of the story): A Raccoon, McDonald's, Gold (color)&nb...

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Three things exercise: Coral in Nome Alaska

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things (ideally, not in throwaway dialog, but as vital pieces of the story): Coral (pink), Nome, AK, a Pogo Ball...

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Three things exercise: A First-Baseman's Mitt

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things: A First Baseman's Mitt, Durham, NC, Raw Sie...

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Three things exercise: A Carnation in Poughkeepsee

For today's exercise write a piece of poetry or prose that somehow utilizes the following three things: A Carnation, Poughkeepsee, Sea-B...

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