Throwback Thursday #16

Photo by Tom Swinnen from Pexels Today I'm posting something I wrote back in November of 2012. Here it is. *** The child hadn’t made a sound in hours, because of the small dose of sedative in his milk. The man was glad of it. Besides the rough snorting of the horse’s breath and the …

Stream of Consciousness and Throwback Thursday #16

Photo by SHTTEFAN on Unsplash Gah, I really need to get back into a regular writing schedule. As I write this post, I am sitting at the counter in a coffee shop, sipping an iced coffee and watching the world go by. This morning I woke up with a spark of inspiration to write today, but as often …

Throwback Thursday #15

Photo by Linn Creutzer from Pexels Today's snippet of story is a fragment I wrote during the holiday break leading into 2013. I had set myself the goal of writing at least 500 words every day, which had some interesting results. In reading back through my work at that time, I can see the improvement …

Throwback Thursday #14

Ugh. I want to get back to posting regularly, but there's this thing called motivation that I just don't have at the moment. Anyway. Here's a short piece for today's Throwback Thursday post, written in the fall of 2014. *** It began with a journey and an unfortunately-misplaced cat and a monstrous puddle of muck. …

Throwback Thursday #13

I'm a little late with this post because yesterday turned out to be a full day, but here I am now. The following story is one I wrote over five years ago, while taking a class in which I got very bored and fidgety. This story just sort of happened without a lot of thought, …

The Dishboy’s Quest

Today's Throwback Thursday story is one that I started writing for my college writing group, way back in March of 2012. The prompt was "love," I think, and though this story doesn't fit the theme, once I started writing it I could hardly stop. It's not finished, but glancing over it again I remember how …