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Face the Sun
Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer’s voice on the page.
Face the Sun
By Flynn
I see that you are broken badly
For you this can’t be fun
I know I cannot fix you
Still, I’ll help you face the sun
Flynn is a musician, writer, and artist, originally from New York City, now living in Seattle, WA. He is the creator of SinkCoffiti art.
As a lifelong artist, Flynn is always looking for the next opportunity to translate his everyday experiences into artistic expressions of art and music.
SinkCoffiti is an original art design concept using coffee, light, and photography to create unique art.
Originally posted on Suleika Jaouad’s The Isolation Journals Facebook Page.
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After school . . . Prompt #644
Photo by madmaven Remember when . . .
What did you do after school?
Start writing, see where this prompt takes you.
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EGGS-istentialism
EGGS-istentialism
By Su Shafer
Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer’s voice on the page.
Fragile egg is not so fragile.
Blank slate not so blank.
Like a bud inwardly smiling
About the blossom to come.
Potential quietly waiting,
Imagining possibilities.
A whole universe before creation.
How can it contain so much excitement
And remain so calm
And confident?
It doesn’t fear the breaking
Or the new world waiting
Outside its shell.
Su Shafer is a creative crafter, fabricating bits of writing in poetry and short stories, and generating characters that appear in paintings and sit on various bookshelves and coffee tables.
She lives in a cottage on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, and always has an extra cup of tea ready should a Sasquatch stop by on its the way to Island Lake nearby. Adventure is always afoot in the untamed forests of the Pacific North West!
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Write to exorcize . . .
“Write to exorcize what’s haunting you. Write about whatever it is you can’t get out of your head—a person, a place, a fear, a fictional scene, a memory from your past, a fantasy for your future. Allow yourself to think obsessively and shamelessly about only that one thing for as long as it takes to get it down on paper.” —Puloma Ghosh, on The Isolation Journal, created by Suleika Joauad.
The Isolation Journals is Suleika’s newsletter for “people seeking to transform life’s interruptions into creative grist. Both free and paid subscriptions are available.”
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A Pantoum for Constance Demby
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A Pantoum for Constance Demby
By Leigh Anne Caryl
They said she died almost without notice
Thank God her music lingers
Beautiful transcendent videos
Visuals of stained glass gothic cathedrals
Thank God her music lingers
An unapologetic exploration of meditative melodies
Lifting me above the Ethos Grand
Visuals of stained glass gothic cathedrals
An unapologetic exploration of meditative melodies
Beautiful transcendent videos
Visuals of stained glass gothic cathedrals
They said she died almost without notice______________________________________
Tribute to a Marin County Friend I will never forgetLeigh Anne Caryl is a pen name. This is her poetic inner child and muse that has been a lifelong writer and constant internal friend, who feels safe to reveal the emotions, and deepest secrets within her soul.
Her first published poem was in 1989. She was printed nationally by Prentice Hall Press, as the forward to a 21-step book on recovery titled, “Soul Survivors” by J. Patrick Gannon, PhD.
Her audience reaches survivors suffering from trauma and abuse. Leigh Anne writes about what her alter ego cannot. Along the way, she intertwined original healing music, and her lyrical message of hope, with musical friendships of different genres that sparked her ambition and personal growth.
This pantoum is dedicated to the memory of a woman with a special personality, who wasn’t afraid to be a pioneer, a New Age innovator, and a mentor.
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The Disappointed Housewife
Notes from The Disappointed Housewife editor Kevin Brennan:
“The Disappointed Housewife is a literary journal for writers, and readers, who are seeking something different. We like the idiosyncratic, the iconoclastic, the offbeat, the hard-to-categorize. Out of the universe of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, we want to attract work that plays with form and presentation. Work that’s not just outside the box but turns the box inside out.”
Excerpt from Mission Statement
I took a long time debating whether to launch this literary journal. I wondered whether there’s really a need for another online gazette of literature and image, when readers hardly have time to read their friends’ Facebook pages much less an actual book now and then.
But I got to thinking, there are an awful lot of writers out there, looking for places to share their work. And while blogs offer a kind of outlet for works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, they are generally personal, a lot like online diaries in many ways, and most of all they aren’t curated.
I’ve also found, as a consumer of writing on the web, that I have a hard time finding much of the kind of material I’m really interested in. After a lifetime of reading, I have a taste now for something different. Stories that are made differently, that play with form and presentation.
Publishing, as a business, tends to incentivize writers to produce what they think will sell.
Yet there is a place for “high risk” writing, fresh, creative, experimental, idiosyncratic, idiomatic, iconoclastic writing. Writers should be allowed to have their quirks.
So I decided to forge ahead with this project, to see what comes in over the transom when writers are given the flexibility to “think different,” as Apple used to say.
I’m afraid that many writers will be disappointed that The Disappointed Housewife declines their work. But it will only be because the editors envision another way the piece could be a better fit, a way that better conforms with the journal’s proclivities. It’s not you, it’s us. Don’t be discouraged. We might suggest some possibilities to you, or you can try again with something that you write with us in mind.
Just remember, this is the place to find writing (in all its manifestations) that you can’t find anyplace else.
Thank you, Guy Biederman, for posting about The Disappointed Housewife on Facebook.
Guy’s “Language of Lies” posted in The Disappointed Housewife.
Meet Guy in [Zoom] person:
May 5 and May 19, 2022: Guy will teach flash fiction writing. Free on Zoom through Recovery Writing of Idaho.
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Don’t Tell Anyone . . . Prompt #643
Writing Prompt:
Don’t tell anyone . . .
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Divine Candy
Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer’s voice on the page.
Divine Candy
By Sandra de Helen
On Route 66, Dead Man’s Curve
our house with an outhouse on seven acres
with no running water,
no candy store in sight.
We ate the eggs our chickens lay,
beans, potatoes, and greens
Mom picked in the woods.
No sweets except on holidays.
Grandma baked pies,
Aunt Mame made candy:
Chocolate fudge, peanut butter bars,
and her heavenly divinity.
Billowy clouds of white sugar,
studded with walnuts Mame herself
picked out with her prized nutcracker set.
Black walnuts the family gathered together
to gather from alongside gravel roads
of the nearby countryside.
Once each year every small family
within our larger family
were gifted a decorated box
of Aunt Mame’s treasured sweets.
We rationed them, made them last
by savoring each bite with the mindfulness
we’ve long since forgotten.
Only my sister and I are left to recall
our Aunt Mame and her gifts.
No one thought to ask for her recipe,
and no family member makes divinity.
Sandra de Helen lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. She is author of the Shirley Combs/Dr. Mary Watson mystery series, set in Portland; Till Darkness Comes, a thriller set in Kansas City, Missouri; and four collections of lesbian poetry published by Launch Point Press.
Sandra is a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll! and International Centre for Women Playwrights.
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