by Elizabeth | Aug 31, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
What will teach us to write? “The page, the page,” says Annie Dillard in The Writing Life. I concur, but there are two pages that teach us to write, the blank page which we (I paraphrase Annie Dillard) cover with our scribble knowing that we ruin whatever we touch but...
by Devi S. Laskar | Aug 30, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’ve always loved history: this is what happened and this is why you are here. And I’ve always loved the 19th century because it was like a great-grandmother, animating the lives of the oldest people I’ve known, the ones who taught my parents. When listening to my...
by Devi S. Laskar | Aug 29, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
What I learned from reading the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate and Columbian author of such perfect books such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera: to leave every last drop of inspiration on the page. My favorite book by...
by Elizabeth | Aug 28, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Next week, my kids start kindergarten. Do you remember your first day of kindergarten? What I remember about mine in that the teachers were on strike—that day and for six more weeks. There is a photograph of me, in a leotard, sitting with my father on the cement...
by Angie Powers | Aug 24, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I was going to write something up about researching places to submit your short pieces this week, but I’ve been on vacation and in addition to not having done much in the way of my own research, I had a very strange experience that I thought I’d toss out there and see...
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