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Petaluma June
By Karen Handyside Ely Petaluma summer morning. Cool, brisk, velvet fog blankets Sonoma Mountain shoulders, Leaving only the soft domed tops revealed, Rising in the mist. Motivating chill in the air. Bare feet pad across icy bathroom tile Happy to be encased in wooly Ugg boots Sweatshirts pile on easily, welcome companions Urging action. Nothing lazy about summer mornings in P-town. Weeds beg to be pulled from…
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Buster Brown
Buster Brown By Robin Mills We pile into our white station wagon with the faux wooden siding, and head down the winding roads of The Canyon to…
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Something About Everything
Something About Everything By Doug Newcomb When I was a boy, everything around me was a mystery. I assumed that as I grew, I would understand more.…
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Travel . . . Prompt #871
Write about a memorable travel experience. Or: The farthest you have traveled. Why did you go? What did you do there? Would you go back? Or: Where…
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Someday I’m going to . . . Prompt #870
Make that recipe Fix that thing Learn how-to or learn about Read that novel, self-help book, poem, tome Write that letter, email, article, essay, book review, book…
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No greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
“The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects—nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs—ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make…
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Waiting . . . Prompt #869
Waiting in line . . . Waiting in traffic . . . Waiting for something to happen . . . Waiting for [someone in your life] to…
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Write toward obsessions, toward fun, toward compression
“I want to write to test forms and to break them. I want to write toward my obsessions. I want to write toward fun, and toward compression.…
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What you create lives on.
“What you create lives on. If you are a writer, your words live on. You have a unique creative voice, and writing and publishing is a powerful…
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Hailing Sleep
Hailing Sleep By Ken Delpit Something I don’t do,But I used to, readily,Is sleep through the night. These days, not the case. Now, it’s hour by hour,Two,…