Throughout the month of September, I will be providing a daily writing prompt based on the title of a well-regarded book where the main character
Tag: creative nonfiction
Featured Post: My mother’s secret garden – Judy Swann
How round your name is, Miriam, mira your tulip, calla, daisy, comfrey crown, your knobby peach pulsing light like Hera, its surfeit a challenge to
The Body Is Not An Apology – Peter Martuneac
“Get back on my pull-up bar!” the Drill Instructor yelled, his spit mixing with the sweat on my brow. “This recruit can’t, sir!” I shouted
When God Was a Woman II – Judy Swann
A word about kind. The OED says only, and misleadingly, “cunt- ; see cont-, count- But in her Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983,
A Room of One’s Own – Peter Martuneac
When you join the Marines, you lose all sense of personal space and privacy. You shower with other Marines, eat with other Marines, share a
