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Into the Woods – 100% proceeds benefit The Children’s Heart Foundation
Into the Woods is the title and theme for this assortment of short stories, poems, essays, music, and one walking meditation. Each piece is unique in tone and genre and the result is that the collection captures the fascinating, frightening, fun, healing, and fantastical wonder of time spent in the woods. The twenty-six contributors who attend Mindful Writers Retreats in the mountains of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, are donating one hundred percent of the proceeds to support the research and work of The Children’s Heart Foundation. Available at…. Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Barnes and Noble Kobo iBooks Paperback Book Excerpts Short Story TRAIN WRECK by Kathleen Shoop Ellie Trumbull squinted…
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Waiting for …
She sits alone in her house waiting for children who never come. Alone by the window peeking through the curtains at the world outside. The world that changed and left her behind. She has no friends, only memories. At night they curl round her as ghosts keep vigil. She waits. Not knowing what she is waiting for. Death maybe but it does not come only regret a life wasted waiting for life to begin.
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Ghosts
A poem
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Almost Famous
Today is April 1 which means its the first day of the A to Z Challenge. Last year I did poetry and poets, but this year I wanted to do something a little easier (less research) and also more creatively challenging. This year I am using random old photos that I found on Flickr Commons as writing prompts. This will let me get my creative juices flowing without having to be bound by a certain style. So expect anything from poetry to vignettes. Find out more about the challenge by clicking this button. Almost famous is not good enough. what price have I paid my dreams lie in dust. Almost…
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Food for the Starving
The city I live in is considered ground zero for the opioid epidemic. In a city that has less than 50,000 people, 1 in 4 adults is addicted to an opiate and 1 in every 10 babies born in 2016 were born addicted.
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Participation Trophies Are for Losers
You entitled insolent child You have been mollycoddled And catered to your entire Short life. Not even 18 and think you are an adult. How dare you think that you can tell me what to do How dare you assume anything about me About life in general You have not lived long enough to assume. Your sheltered existence One of helicopter moms always hovering Never having truly lived at all. Assuming you can tell an adult what to do Assuming you know what to do Assuming that anyone will even listen to your orders You are a child still clinging to mommy’s skirt Surprised when the world calls you out…
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W is for Walls: If Walls Could Talk
Shadows of yesteryear fall long upon the empty walls Reminding me of all the lives lived. If walls could talk would they give up their secrets as easily as a butterfly shedding it’s cacoon. Suitcases forbidden rendezvous loves lost passions found Desperation loneliness death What tales would they tell Would they hold our secrets close Like a friend never divulging our sins.
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Q is for Quatrain
A quatrain poem consists of verses consisting of four lines or an entire poem consisting of four lines. It is not as simple as just any four lines. The lines must have a rhythm and rhyme to them. This rhyme and rhythm and different for different types of quatrains. The most common kinds of quatrain are: BalladStanza – Its rhyme scheme is abab with iambic tetrameter. Envelope Stanza – Its rhyme scheme is abba with iambic tetrameter. Goethe Stanza – Its rhyme scheme is abab but no meter. Italian Quatrain – Its rhyme scheme is abba with iambic pentameter. Hymnal Quatrain – This multi stanza contains three alternating rhymes with iambic trimester and…
