Stream of Consciousness
The Honest Truth: Out of the five online side gigs I tried, only one was successful.
The Honest Truth: Out of the five online side gigs I tried, only one was successful. I sought independence, adaptability, and additional revenue. Instead, I discovered disappointment, broken promises, and one unanticipated victory.
By Farida Kabir16 days ago in Writers
My Own Big Toe, Object Study
Object Study 1 I shudder to think of the fetishists watching in the bushes who see this and find themselves spellbound: a toe is a toe, and a big toe is simply the biggest of the toes on a given foot. At the topside, a thick toenail flattened after years of stubbing and dropping books and tools on it. It’s mangled, just a little bit, by a lifetime of ill-timed and ill-fated clippings. The right end of it juts out a little farther than the left, which is thicker, a little ingrown, bleeds whenever the nail-clippers come down on it without mercy and without finesse. Beyond that, a tuft of hair—Hobbit-hair, as mother called it growing up. It’s lighter than I imagined it to be, lighter, the shade of my beard after a summer in the brunt of sunlight, the shade of half-dried sand on the precipice between dry land and less dry sea, the shade of the hair on my grandmother’s head before it turned white with age and then to ash.
By Steven Christopher McKnight17 days ago in Writers
Love U First. Content Warning.
Before anyone tells you I love you. I love you that you are reading this and understanding that you have to love yourself first before anyone and I mean anyone that makes you love them and uses all your energy just to make them feel better. If only you love you and get what you get , then you will see what I mean,
By Erica Williams25 days ago in Writers
Harper Lewis. Content Warning.
I get a feeling that some of y’all are wondering, “Who is this Harper Lewis, and where did she come from?” I’m new here, so new that I have no idea who the “same old names” are. I know that I’m new and some of my pieces have been noticed. I’m very appreciative of that, and sometimes I post with genuine hope and confidence that I nailed it, that what I tried to convey resonated, that my weirdness doesn’t alienate me.
By Harper Lewis30 days ago in Writers
Untitled . Top Story - December 2025.
I pat my brows with a handkerchief I fancy, and I think about the plight we are in today; it makes me squirm. In all my words you seek to find a formula, but your ledgers are filled with trending tabs (ephemeral tallies). You make me feel like I should be held in a box. It is impossible for someone to grow or be better than they were yesterday; simply by choice, they wish to step back and publish a little slower, less frequently.
By Caitlin Charlton30 days ago in Writers
Georgia And The Black Sea
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter - What If? Writing Exercise for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise - Choose a country where you have always longed to go but haven't yet been and set a story there. Read old and new Fodor's guides as well as other recent travel guides and National Geographic; buy a map; study the country's politics, religion, government, and social issues; read cookbooks - always, always looking for the persuasive detail, something you would almost have to be there to know. The Objective - To write with authority and conviction about a place you have never been to.
By Denise E Lindquistabout a month ago in Writers
A Thought About Thinking.
I have been lingering on a single word lately. Vacillating. It describes a mind in motion without arrival. Thought rocking back and forth, clever, cautious, busy, yet oddly stalled. Not foolishness. Not weakness. Just the strange human habit of circling clarity instead of stepping into it.
By Cathy (Christine Acheini) Ben-Ameh.about a month ago in Writers
My Pet Hilda
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter - What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise - Write a composition on the subject "My Pet." The only requirement is that this must be a pet you have never owned. It can be anything from a kitten to a dinosaur, from a fly to a dragon. Describe what your pet looks like, how you acquired it, what it eats and where it sleeps, what tricks it can do and how it gets on with your family, friends, neighbors,or the people at the work. The Objective - To expand your conception of characters and relationships.
By Denise E Lindquistabout a month ago in Writers
