Rachel Deeming

Joined July 2021

924 stories

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Storyteller. Poet. Reviewer. Traveller.

I love to write. Check me out in the many places where I pop up:

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Kamchatka
Aura of gushing steam shrouds you; Boiling world rumbles and forces Crust cracks and explosions to make Danger. Danger! Emissions echo and rise in plumes,
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Poets
Animal. Top Story - January 2024.
I am an animal. Sophisticated? Maybe. But what does that mean? Sophisticated how? How is that measured? I don't feel it right now,
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Poets
A Day at the Beach
L.C. Schäfer proposed the idea that she would write a story every day for 2024 and invited other Vocalists/Vocalites along for the ride. And so, here I still am. Day 2 of Week Three.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Perdita Nummum
I don't like where I am now. I'm in good company but I would prefer to be away from the glass and the lights. I don't like being pinned. I want to be free.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Strange Wistfulness of Used Bookstores
This could be my best title yet but it is not my own work unfortunately. L.C. Schäfer proposed the idea that she would write a story every day for 2024 and invited other Vocalists/Vocalites along for the ride. And so, here I still am. This is now the beginning of Week Three. I never thought I would get this far.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Week Two of Write a Story Every Day in 2024
Week Two. 14 stories. Each of them microfiction of less than 366 words. All of them different. And so tomorrow heralds the start of Week Three and I am still in the marathon. Maybe with a blister or two and a dry throat but I'm there and I'm fighting.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Writers
Resolution
Two weeks since I started this challenge. L.C. Schäfer proposed to spend 2024 choosing to write a microfiction story every day, making 366 stories for every day of this lovely leap year and here we are at 14! That deserves a toast!. You can check her original story out here:
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
Bird's Eye View
Mackenzie Davis set us some mean challenge! Yes, she did! To get those grey cells a-buzzing and a-spitting and producing some of that storytelling magic here in the grand old year of 2024. Yes, sirree! And here's my little effort, for the high-flying birdie in the photo. He looks like he's a-having a fine time of it, don't he?
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Lost Little Duck
This story has been written in response to L.C. Schäfer's proposal to spend 2024 losing my mind...sorry, I mean, choosing to write a microfiction story every day, making 366 stories for every day of this lovely leap year. You can check her original story out here:
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Struggle of Letters
Any word will tell you that they matter: But they would be nothing without us letters. Chains of us link to make ideas that count;
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Poets
The Frozen Lake. Content Warning.
This story has been written in response to L.C. Schäfer's proposal to spend 2024 losing my mind...sorry, I mean, choosing to write a microfiction story every day, making 366 stories for every day of this lovely leap year. You can check her original story out here:
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Fiction
The Ingredients for Alphabet Soup. Content Warning.
A is for annoying, the place where tempers flare, B is for bonanza, getting something from thin air. C is for cadwallader, a great name for a dame,
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Poets