Tag: short stories

• A Self-Portrait & Writing by Hand

  

  Wednesday…and Virginia Woolf served so many cups of tea written into the short story collection Monday or Tuesday that there’s no desire left for another cup of tea for me today. From that particular set of stories, I really liked “The String Quartet” and “Kew Gardens.” Yesterday I came upon a short story I wrote […]

  09/29/2022 7:43 am

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• An Unexpected Lounge

  

  reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis yesterday evening Today I am writing a short story, my first short story in awhile, an imagined one, and by in awhile, I mean the first one that I set out to write a short story intentionally. I will surround writing with yoga, sitting meditation, and self-massage. I […]

  09/23/2022 7:06 am

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• Short Stories from Ancient Places

  The book of short stories I’ve been reading is closed and ready to return to the library, or at least it is finished for me for now…I also want to write a short story. 🙂 If you like the genre and maybe don’t always know where to look for short fiction, here is an overview […]

  09/21/2022 7:08 pm

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• A Petite Canvas: An Abstract Painting in the Making and Two Other Art Forms Calling

  I am working on a small (9 x 12) canvas for my baby nephew to display in his nursery; today is the second day I am working on it. I’ve felt most drawn to abstract art now, which is a spontaneous art for me, and I found I like it best done with a calm, […]

  09/15/2022 3:27 pm

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• A Very Short Story, “Sincerity”

  ….This Journal resumes… I received a letter this morning saying that my short story didn’t win the contest I’d mentioned; the judges enjoyed reading it and I enjoyed writing it very much too. The contest theme was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max and a contest I’d began looking into soon before entries closed, […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• Tell Me About You

  There might have been a small overflow of posts from 10 yrs ago or more come up in your email from the blog this weekend from when I was updating my WordPress plan…These were posts mysteriously restored and not an avalanche of relevant news, my apologies. I wrote this About Me yesterday to share on […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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• Two Poems of Mine Published in Indelible

  

  My two poems, “This Ring” and “Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance” are in print today in the latest issue of Indelible, an online literary and arts magazine, Issue #6, “The Feminine.” To read my two poems in Indelible, click This Ring and Other Poem, by Jade […]

  03/08/2022 7:09 am

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• Willa Cather’s Prairie Two— “May E” Writes A Long Lost Short Story

  I will share a Prairie post to come and one that leaves all suspense in the books and with just a glimpse in from my perspective, for your interest. I’ve read the first 2 from Willa Cather’s Prairie 3. As for her prose, it is wonderful, with long, very clear sentences and a style of […]

  03/05/2022 4:08 pm

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• Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra, Stories to Show You This Life as They Drift You Away

  

  Flying Carpets by Hedy Habra contains some of the finest short fiction I’ve read, a genre of which I am most selective when it comes to favorites and I don’t read often, yet these stories invite the reader in with glimmering prose poetry and curiosity about the many facets of everyday life, stories grounded in […]

  09/07/2021 4:10 pm

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• Free Book: A Haunted House Stories by Virginia Woolf

  A Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf (free online) This is one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time! The words following one after the other are seemingly random at first but they come together so clearly as you read on.  It is not a scary book, which I enjoyed […]

  11/01/2020 3:26 am

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