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Creative #Writing #Contests Table Updated

The time has come, again! Here’s your monthly reminder about the creative writing contest table, to tell you it’s been updated. It lives on the ‘Resources’…

The #Write #Words? Post 8

Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series.…

Traveller Inceptio, by Rob Shackleford: #BookReview.

432 pages Science Fiction and Fantasy/Time Travel I read the sample offered by Amazon, as I often do before deciding whether to read a book. In…

The #Write #Words? Post 7

Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series.…

We Are the Filthy: a #Poem

In despair at humanity’s disgusting insistence at soiling our shared nest, I penned this short piece of free verse. “When plastic comes of age it shall…

Echoes of Olympus Mons, by Eric Malikyte: #BookReview.

270 Pages Horror/Science Fiction It takes imagination and sound scientific knowledge to invent an entirely new form of monstrous antagonist in a science fiction novel, and…

The #Write #Words? Post 6

Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series.…

Judge Me Not; a #Poem

I was recently involved in an online discussion that highlighted the tendency of some correspondents to make judgments about others from the biased point of view…

The #Write #Words? Post 5

Looking at Onomatopoeia, Simile, and Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This…

A Walk in the Spring Forest: #Poem

The world has gone mad, so I thought I’d celebrate something natural. Enjoy. A Walk in the Spring Forest Life begins as those sleepers wake and…