Words of Redemption

It’s time to share some stories for July’s Write What You See, the monthly micro-fiction challenge.
Here’s the teaser.
So did you compose a 200 word masterwork?
Did you write a six-word story to describe what you saw in this picture?

Well, my mom did, and she rocked it! In fact, leave her a comment there or here.
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She actually did it this time.
Robin made up a new poetic form, for real.
This isn’t an obscure form that I’ve decided to blame Robin for inventing, as I have done in the past.
This one is a Pensieve Original Creation, or POC.
The form: A Pensieve.
And it’s really, really [...]

Wow, I didn’t realize that it’s been a month since the last Write What You See challenge.
But here we are, nearly into August, and it’s time for another round of image-triggered storytelling.
Last month, I was pleased to get a few takers. The submitted stories were all unique, creative and funny.
This month, I hope you’ll consider [...]

I’ve been re-reading Orthodoxy, bit by bit, over the last few weeks and I came across a passage that continues to be just about the greatest thing I’ve ever read on paper1. If I feel so strongly about it, why wouldn’t I share it here.
“But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely [...]

“The world’s greatest lie: At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what’s happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
On November 1st, 2007, I began two journeys.
One to write a novel, another to become a writer.
Today, one of those journeys is being laid to [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned that my regular pre-Kindle reading list posts were going to evolve into a monthly dump of what I’m reading on and off the Kindle.
Here’s the update for July. A wide variety of books…
One thing I’ve realized this year as I’ve been tracking my reading closely is that there is almost no rhyme [...]

So, after three months of patient waiting and reading through a pile of books I vowed to complete, I finally ordered myself a Kindle.
The bad news is that I didn’t exactly read all 16 books on my pre-Kindle reading list. I finished 12 and had 4 remaining when I decided to stop waiting [...]