Northern Wisconsin, May 1980 Dee checked her watch and hurried into the house. The meeting of the support group was scheduled to start in fifteen

People who know me well know that I love being in water. Yet I have never been asked if I sometimes feel afraid in water.

(a true story) He was magnificent. The biggest, most beautiful butterfly I had ever seen. A male monarch, fluttering his wings, bright orange with black

I remember being afraid as I walked along the gravel road with my dad. We were going to see a dead person. I was ten years old. I had never seen a dead person before.

It turns out that writing a six-word story is challenging. Here are four that I wrote.
Clearly I haven’t mastered the concept yet, as none of the four made the cut for publication in a literary magazine. Writing a six-word sentence or a six-word slogan is pretty easy. But to invoke motion and emotion in six words is not easy. I’ll keep trying 🙂

These three short essays are based on real events from my life. I discovered it is not easy (for me, anyway) to write in the first person. After this, I think I will stick to writing fiction.