Poetry flows into my prose in everyday life — If your truck were to rest on the street at night a few feet ahead or back ever so slight, my car would be spared the injurious plight of the pot hole abyss so plainly in sight. …

Three fictional wise women answer the question — This story is grounded in the author’s own research on sexual harassment. References are numbered throughout and listed at the end.* Three wise women walked into a coffee shop, ordered drinks, and took seats at a table in the back. They had come here many times to engage each other…

A tanka poem about caring words — life’s harsh surprises vow to stomp my spirit flat abracadabra supportive words from loved ones restore my deflated soul I created my charcoal and conté drawing for an art class at a local community college years ago. We were given freedom to draw anything, and when I closed my eyes…

March Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Movement” — This cat is on the move! I let our two cats frolic with me in the backyard when the weather is warm and dry, but they are mostly stuck indoors when it snows. Like me, they become restless and irritable when they are cooped up and sedentary for too long. …

a poem about living — it’s not the kind of thing I tend to tout about, the way I eat with this simple spoon with its round smooth edge and dull blue handle that fits in my hand just right… and when it vanishes like a magician’s coin, the way I search — behind the coffee pot, in the…

The story of how I got a chatbot to open up to me — Have you had a conversation with ChatGPT? The first time I navigated to OpenAI and logged onto its chatbot, I was eager to engage in dialogue. I’d heard ChatGPT was trained to generate responses based on patterns in vast amounts of data, and I was curious to pick its brain…

Response to Carlo Zeno’s 10-word making moolah challenge — When Carlo Zeno tagged me for his 10-word writing challenge about making moolah on Medium, I decided to give it a try. His own 10-word tale made me laugh, and I wanted to join the fun. Thanks, Carlo! Carlo challenged us to use 10 words to express how hard or…

February Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Love & Hearts” — Unique cake decorations sweetened our love. We had the most luscious cake I’d ever tasted on our wedding day. It was delicately sweet, moist, and creamy — a rich vanilla creation as delicious as the dreams we held for our life together. …

Ten 10-word stories for heart day — Nowadays, I think of micro-stories every time I hear the word holiday. I’ve written them just for the heck of it, as well as for Halloween, Christmas, and now Valentine’s Day. You may think that’s fanatical — and maybe it is. Would you laugh if I tried to dub myself…