Johanna Parry
Bio
Former director of Redwood Coast Writers Center. Judges included Jack Hanrahan, writer of the old Laugh In TV Comedy. Founder of several environmental protection organizations. Word wanderer. Hummingbird whisperer. Earth Builder. Nana.
Stories (10)
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Evolution
Have you ever noticed that right there, embedded in the word evolution, are our human operating instructions? Those first four letters are the clue. Flip them around and you have the word love. Follow the word further, and from love, you also have volution.
By Johanna Parryabout a month ago in Families
Rebuilding
Brown goo oozed through her toes. Drawing a fresh-smelling breeze in through her nose, she lifted her right foot while sprinkling straw with her left hand. Stomping down into the mud, Teyana smashed, squished and pummeled the straw, clay and earth mix onto the tarp with her feet. Without a word, Lucas stepped to the edge of her tarp. Teyana moved to the opposite side and together they folded the tarp in half and both of them jumped on top of it to further smash the mix down into a burrito-like mass.
By Johanna Parry7 months ago in Fiction
Explaining Myself to my Ghost
Hello me. I know we haven't always been a ghost. COVID did that to us. One day we had a career and focus, optimism even. Then the world changed and dragged us along. I admit, we have been a bit of a frog in our focus on how to effect genuine social and environmental change.
By Johanna Parry7 months ago in History
Messing with the Time/Light Continuum
Kaden calmly plucked his ukelele. Each reverberating note started sounding all around them - suddenly - ZAP! An electric snap hit the air and another fly dropped out of the room. The sound of giant bowling balls rolling across the sky shook the windows. “Jack loves thunder.” He thought to himself.
By Johanna Parry7 months ago in Fiction
Breach of Contract
Google administrators need a much better cover up. After placing a software engineer on leave for breach of contract, it was revealed that Google had also recently fired several other software engineers for questioning the abilities of the chatbots they were required to program and study.
By Johanna Parry7 months ago in Critique
