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"More To Live For" by Robin Russell Gaiser
October 07, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 11 MBRobin Russell Gaiser, MA, CMP, holds degrees in English literature and psychology and a certificate in therapeutic music. She has published two books, Musical Morphine: Transforming Pain One Note at a Time (Pisgah Press: 2016) and Open for Lunch (Pisgah Press: 2018) and numerous short stories, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. She is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist as well as creator of Appalachian folk art. Her three children and their spouses, plus five grandchildren live coast to co...
"Ten Places I Have Lived with Violence" by Wanda Freeman
October 04, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.12 MBWanda Freeman lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is an award-winning writer, editor, and journalist whose literary work has appeared in The MacGuffin (Schoolcraft College, Livonia, Michigan) and Cellar Roots (Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti). She grew up in New Orleans, where she learned to cook and second-line. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of New Orleans and a master’s degree in creative writing from EMU. She is a member of the North C...
"Awakened in Rome" by Akira Odani
September 30, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.82 MBAkira Odani lives in the ancient city of St. Augustine, Florida. He belongs to Taste Life Twice Writers and the Florida Writers Association. Born in Tokyo, he had written extensively for the Japanese media. Still, more recently, his interest has turned to writing in English and subjects related to his experiences interacting with the two cultures. Some of his work has appeared in the pages of FWA anthologies, The Weekly Avocet, PSPP, Twists and Turns, and Lost & Found. He stays active, medit...
"Five Minutes More" by Diana Neunkirchner
September 27, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10 MBDiana Neunkirchner is a retired teacher living in Rougemont, North Carolina. An avid reader and writer, she is a member of the Durham Writers Group, the Writers’ Inspirational Network, and the Writers’ Critique Group. When she’s not writing short stories, personal essays, or memoir, she is hiking along the Eno River or playing the flute at Your Saving Grace, the family farm.
"Andante con Amore" by Rhoda Cerny
September 23, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.02 MBRhoda Cerny lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her two cats. When she is not writing or dreaming of travel, you will find her singing, dancing, practicing Italian, and gardening. A member of the Orange County chapter of the NC Writer’s Network and writing groups in the Triangle, she has published poetry and is currently working on a novel and a memoir. She wrote “Andante Con Amore” while a Writer-in-Residence at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.
"Bonds" by Annette L. Brown
September 20, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 10.5 MBAnnette L. Brown is a mother, wife, and retired teacher, who lives on an almond farm in Central California where she enjoys spending time with family and friends. She is grateful for the support of The Taste Life Twice Writers and The Light Makers’ Society and for simply having time to write. Annette has pieces reflecting her love of nature, family, beauty, and humor in several publications including Cathexis Northwest Press, Last Stanza Poetry, Flash Fiction Magazine, Every Day Fiction, and...
"Never Too Late To Say I Love You" by Mary Clements Fisher
September 16, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBMary Clements Fisher celebrates her current mother/grandmother, sweetheart, student, and writer status in Northern California. Her poetry and prose explore her mad, muddled, and magical moments. She’s published in Quail Belle Magazine, Adanna Journal, Passager Journal, The Weekly Avocet, Personal Story Publishing Project, Prometheus Dreaming Journal, The Closed Eye Open, Capsule Stories, and They Call Us Magazine. Join her @maryfisherwrites and https://maryfisherwrites.squarespace.com/
"The Origin of Lust" by Becky Gould Gibson
September 13, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9 MBBecky Gibson has published three chapbooks and five full-length books of poetry: notably, Aphrodite’s Daughter (Texas Review Press, 2007); Need-Fire (Bright Hill Press, 2007); Heading Home (Main Street Rag, 2014); and Indelible (The Broadkill River Press, 2018). Her current focus is creative nonfiction. Three pieces appear in print, in Snowy Egret, Canary, and Twists and Turns (PSPP, Fall, 2022). A fourth comes out soon in Cold Mountain Review. Becky taught English at Guilford College unti...
"Stir-fried Bee Chrysalis and the Soul Stories of Bright Beaded Hats" by Mary Alice Dixon
September 09, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes - 10 MBMary Alice Dixon is a Pushcart nominee who taught architectural history in the U.S. and China. She is an award-winning poet and finalist for the NC Poetry Society’s 2023 Poet Laureate Award. Her writing appears in the PSPP anthologies Twists and Turns, Curious Stuff, Trouble, and That Southern Thing. She has recent work in County Lines, Kakalak, Mythic Circle, Pinesong, Petigru Review, and elsewhere. Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she volunteers with hospice, participat...
"Introduction" to "Sooner or Later" -
September 06, 2023 09:00 - 6 minutes - 8.57 MBFifty writers share insightful, heartfelt, thought-provoking, and humorous stories about how the matters of time and timing have affected their lives or been essential elements of one episode or another. Being too early or too late, having all the time in the world, or not nearly enough make all the difference in our life experiences. Among these stories are tales that challenge the matter of inevitability which inevitably comes up when we bring these two words close enough to interact—soone...
"Taking Flight" by Akira Odani (reprise)
September 02, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.83 MBAkira Odani lives in the ancient city of St. Augustine, Florida. He is a member of the Taste Life Twice Writers’ group and the Florida Writers Association. Born in Tokyo, he wrote extensively in the past for the Japanese media. Still, more recently, his interest has turned to writing in English and on subjects related to his memories of interacting with the two cultures. Some of his work has appeared in the pages of FWA anthologies and PSPP’s fall 2022 collection. He stays active, meditating...
"It's Not the Pearls" by Emily Rosen (reprise)
August 30, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10 MBEmily Rosen lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where for over 20 years and until her 95th birthday last year, she instructed classes in memoir writing, publishing two anthologies of stories from her classes, and the book, Who Am I? For two decades and until the local weekly newspaper folded in 2021, she wrote the column “Everything's Coming Up Rosen.” Her travel and feature articles have appeared nationwide while her poetry languishes in the pages of a fat notebook. She has worked as a copy write...
"Signature, Please" by Annette L. Brown (reprise)
August 26, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 10.8 MBAnnette L. Brown is a mother, wife, mediocre cook but competent baker. She lives on an almond farm in central California where she enjoys time with family and friends. She has recently become serious about refining her craft and feels privileged to enjoy the support of two writing groups: the Taste Life Twice Writers and the Light Makers’ Society. Annette is inspired by nature, family, beauty, and humor and has had pieces reflecting those inspirations published in Cathexis Northwest Press, P...
"Instincts" by Marci Spencer (reprise)
August 19, 2023 16:53 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBA native of Asheville, North Carolina, now living in Old Fort, Marci Spencer grew up on land that her great-grandfather refused to sell to George Vanderbilt for the Biltmore Estate. She worked as a nurse practitioner in the fields of cardiology, family medicine, and overseas medical missionary service. After hiking hundreds of miles, volunteering for the park service, and earning certification as a naturalist/environmental educator, Marci wrote Clingmans Dome, Highest Mountain in the Great S...
"Uplifting Good Fortune" by Judie Holcomb-Pack
August 12, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.14 MBAfter a career in public relations, marketing and special events, Judie Holcomb-Pack retired from a local nonprofit and immediately switched gears and became the assistant editor of a weekly newspaper for the African American community in Winston-Salem. She is a member of Winston-Salem Writers and writes poetry, short stories, essays, and ten-minute plays. She especially enjoys interviewing and writing about interesting older adults for The Chronicle's monthly section, “For Seniors Only.”
"Tough Times" by Paula Teem Levi
August 09, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.25 MBPaula Teem Levi is a retired Registered Nurse living in Clover, South Carolina. She is a member of several genealogical societies. Her stories have appeared in six previous anthologies of the Personal Story Publishing Project. "Who's That Lady" that appeared in Curious Stuff was recently published in the Journal of the Burke County Genealogical Society. Her goal is to preserve as many family stories as possible for future generations so that they will not be at risk of being forgotten or los...
"A Terrible Way To Live" by Phyliss Grady Adcock
August 05, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.04 MBAfter teaching for 34 years, Phyliss Grady Adcock, retired in Morehead City, North Carolina. Her writing has appeared in Mailbox Magazine, Teacher’s Helper, That Southern Thing, Luck and Opportunity, Trouble, and Curious Stuff. Her grant writing netted over $5,000 for classroom projects. For one grant proposal, she was recognized as the first Raychem Educator of the Year. She is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for 1996 and 2000. She is currently writing humorous stories about th...
"Finding Home" by J.P. McGillicuddy
August 02, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.06 MBJ.P. McGillicuddy lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. A former magazine editor, he has authored numerous published articles spanning sports, health care and government. He also created and wrote “The Mecklenburgers,” an award-winning local television program. His poetry received a 2019 award from Charlotte Writers Club and was exhibited in Mooresville Arts “Beyond Poems and Paintings” in 2020. His essays, “The White Section,” “Opportunity Named Harry,” “The Terror Inside” and “Eleven Eleven”...
Reprise from Sept 7, 2022: “Confessions of an Ex-Poetry Editor” by Ruth Moose
July 29, 2023 09:00 - 11 minutes - 15.9 MBRuth Moose was on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for 15 years. She has published three collections of short stories, The Wreath Ribbon Quilt, Dreaming in Color, and Neighbors and Other Strangers with individual stories in numerous publications including in Holland, South Africa, England, and Denmark. Moose has published six collections of poetry, most recently, The Librarian and Other Poems and Tea. She received a MacDowell Fellowship, a North Ca...
"Blue Light Blues" by Patricia E. Watts
July 22, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.74 MBPatricia E. Watts lives in Mountville, South Carolina where the love of local and family history has given her a passion to write stories to pass down to her children. She has found through stories of tragedies, tears, and triumphs and even mysteries that she has a rich heritage worth telling. Six stories have appeared in previous PSPP anthologies: “A Real Small Town,” the paired stories “Sometimes the Prize Goes to the Wrong Person” and “The Orphan Train,” “Chancing the Buddy System,” “The ...
“The Essentials” by Catherine Parisio
July 19, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.66 MBCatherine Parisio spent nearly two decades living overseas and teaching at international schools. From South America to Africa to the Middle East, the insights and challenges of expat life, as well as the wealth of travel opportunities available, give her a lot to write about. Living in Oregon at present, she and her husband are adjusting to life as empty-nesters and are eager for their next adventure. When she is not out on the trail with her hiking buddies, Catherine works as a freelance b...
"Up the Creek" by Howard Pearre
July 15, 2023 14:38 - 7 minutes - 8.87 MBHoward Pearre’s fiction and memoir stories have appeared in Personal Story Publishing Project anthologies, Flying South, GreenPrints, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. His short story “September, 1957” received an honorable mention at the 2020 International Human Rights Arts Festival. He also writes articles promoting voting for the Winston-Salem Chronicle and is a board member of Winston-Salem Writers. He retired after a career as a counselor and manager with NC Vocational Re...
"Love Never Dies" by Phyllis Castelli
July 12, 2023 13:05 - 8 minutes - 10.2 MBPhyllis Castelli returned home to Henderson, North Carolina, after retiring from her music career. She spends time with her lifetime special interests: writing, music, photography, a pollinator garden, and Black Labrador Retrievers. Phyllis loves to create projects that knit together the beauty of those favorites. Phyllis’s poems and essays have appeared in Quillkeepers Press, The Avocet, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Tar River Poets, among others. As a child poet, she published Gentle, I Think,...
"A Fine Work" by Joe Brown
July 08, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.39 MBJoseph Brown is a native of North Carolina, born in Yadkin County and reared in Davie County. He now resides in the Bethania area of Forsyth County and has lived all his life within 40 miles of his birthplace. In February 2020 he retired from 50 years in the construction industry. Most of his previous writing has been daily journals on his mission trips to Kentucky, Canada, and Ecuador. His earliest published stories appeared in 2019, 2020, and 2021 Personal Story Publishing Projects.
"Tea with the Queen" by Kay Harper Windsor
July 05, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.85 MBKay Harper Windsor leads reflective writing sessions for Trellis Supportive Care in Winston-Salem and for community groups. She served as a national mentor for journalism teachers after four decades of teaching. For 20 years, she has been part of the Farther Along writing group, and her writing is included in Farther Along: The Writing Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers and at fartheralongbook.com. Kay is a mother of three children and a grandmother of seven grandchildren, all storytel...
"Holding Hands" by Karen Sleeth
July 01, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.08 MBKaren Sleeth lives in Durham, North Carolina. She is a member of the North Carolina Writers Network and the Renegade Writers Group. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Main Street Rag, Potato Soup Journal, 2022 Best of Potato Soup Journal, Café Lit Magazine, and others. Currently she is attending Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. She will complete an MFA in Creative Writing in May of 2023.
"Finding Joy in Borrowed Time" by Patricia Joslin
June 28, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.85 MBPatricia Joslin lives in Charlotte NC. Her essays have appeared in the Personal Story Publishing Project—That Southern Thing, 2020, Luck and Opportunity, 2021. Her poems are included in the Kakalak 2021 and 2022 anthologies. Patricia’s poem, “Today at Low Tide,” was selected by the NC Poetry Society for its 2023 “Poetry in Plain Sight" poster program. Her chapbook, I’ll Buy Flowers Again Tomorrow, a collection of poems about loss and healing, will be published in 2023 by Charlotte Lit Press....
"Six Minutes to You" by David Inserra
June 24, 2023 14:48 - 7 minutes - 8.67 MBDavid Inserra and his wife, Ellen Titus, recently celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary. They enjoy life on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina with their dog, Mindy. David’s most recent work appears in the PSPP release, ‘Twists and Turns.’ He is a member of the Island Writers Network and works at the local Unitarian Church. David’s first novel, a speculative thriller titled ‘In Your Own Backyard,’ is currently being queried to agents. He is also a musician who has written over 400 song...
"Finding the Perfect Pumpkin" by Rebecca S. Holder
June 21, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.21 MBRebecca S. Holder lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is a member of Winston-Salem Writers. With the advice and guidance of the Westenders critique group, she is working on a short story collection centered on the fictional town of Braidy Creek. When not immersed in fiction, Rebecca indulges in personal essays and poetry. Her story “A Tap at My Door” appeared in the PSPP anthology, Twists and Turns. Most recently, she was a finalist for the 2022 James Hurst Prize for Fiction with her ...
"My Father's Photograph" by Bob Amason
June 17, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.61 MBBob Amason is a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was a college professor for 25 years. A member of the Florida Writer’s Association, Bob writes under his pen name, Frank A. Mason. Bob’s works include historical novels, most recently Four Women of the Revolution, and Blue-Green for the Grave, a modern suspense novel. His writing has been published in two anthologies as well as academic journals and books. Bob lives in Florida with his overachieving wife, a professor who is author o...
"The Mezuzah" by Ginny Foard
June 14, 2023 13:15 - 7 minutes - 9.29 MBGrowing up in the South means learning life lessons from family stories. Ginny Foard learned a few things that way. She also found out that later you get to tell stories, too. Depending on who’s in the room with you, you might need a few hours to get to the bottom of what all happened. Ginny likes exploring, sharing, and listening to the stories around her. She lives in a little post office box on Sullivans Island, South Carolina.
"Alone in the Woods" by Suzanne Cottrell
June 10, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.48 MBSuzanne Cottrell, a member of Taste Life Twice Writers and NC Writers’ Network, lives with her husband in Granville County, NC. An outdoor enthusiast and retired teacher, she enjoys reading, writing, knitting, hiking, and Pilates. Her prose has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the Personal Story Publishing Project, Inwood Indiana Press, Quillkeepers Press, and Parks and Points. She’s the author of three poetry chapbooks: Gifts of the Seasons, Autumn and Winter; Gifts ...
"The Sound of Music" by Alexandra Goodwin
June 07, 2023 13:46 - 7 minutes - 9.33 MBAlexandra Goodwin is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lives under her mango tree where her desk is except when there is a hurricane. She’s the author of Exchange at the Border, Whispers of the Soul, What Color is Your Haiku?, and Caleidoscopio. Her essays and poems have appeared or are upcoming in Ariel Chart, The Centifictionist, Loch Raven Review, Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly, The Miami Herald and Twists and Turns. This is her second story for the Personal Story Publishing Project.
"My Neighbor Is a D-Day Hero" by Randell Jones - reprise 2023
June 06, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.79 MBThis story is offered for the 79th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. It is the experience that day of my next-door neighbor as he wrote it years later. He is now 99-1/2 and he turns 100 on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day. He two years ago that he had been awarded a fourth Purple Heart to accompany his Bronze Star. This story is offered in honor and memory of all World War II veterans with special appreciation for your service, Horace. Thank you, and thank you, veterans, all.
"The Application" by Landis Wade
June 03, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.42 MBLandis Wade writes light-hearted legal thrillers and mysteries with a historical or holiday touch (cozies with a bit of a thrill). He is a recovering trial lawyer and host of Charlotte Readers Podcast where he has conducted more than 500 author interviews. His recent novel–Deadly Declarations–has won six awards, and counting, including Winner in the 2022 American Fiction Awards in the Cozy Mystery category. His essays have appeared in five earlier anthologies by the Personal Story Publishing...
"In Transition" by Jane Satchell McAllister
May 31, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.16 MBJane Satchell McAllister's writings draw inspiration from the wide variety of people and places she encounters, from her home base in Davie County, North Carolina, to rich adventures across our country and abroad. She has co-authored two Images of America books through Arcadia Publishing and served for nine years as director of the county public library. Her current writing project is compiling stories based on decades of travel, both fiction and nonfiction, almost as much fun as the trips t...
Memorial Day 2023
May 27, 2023 16:36 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MBAt any point in all our lives, we can recall someone we have lost. Those good souls we also remember on Memorial Day, not the circumstances of their passing, their difficult demise or their being stolen from this good earth and our deepest regard for them much too soon by any manner of fate or harm or misfortune. We remember them, who they were to us, who we hope the rest of the world had the good blessing to also experience. And our remembering is enough. For now. For this year, once again.
"Pop the Kettle On" by Rose-Mary Harrington
May 24, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 8.85 MBRose-Mary is originally from England. She now resides in Wilmington. North Carolina. Rose-Mary is on the board of Port City Playwrights. Her background is in theatre. Currently her play Six Seconds is in pre-production and will be staged in November,2023. Rose-Mary recently received an Arts Council Grant to produce an audio recording of Six Seconds which will be available on You Tube. Rose-Mary is inspired by her five muses and nine grand muses. They all enjoy a cup of British tea in the...
"The Gift" by Cherie Cox
May 20, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.28 MBA published news journalist and a practiced lawyer, Cherie Cox calls North Carolina home. Awards include the Charlotte Writers’ Club first place in poetry. Published short stories, essays, professional legal articles and poetry vary her credentials. These include Daniel Boone Footsteps anthologies, Kakalak and The Christmas Wreath. She enjoys people who give their best effort. The Hickory Daily Record and the Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office enriched her life. Many individuals ins...
"Taking Flight" by Akira Odani
May 17, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.83 MBAkira Odani lives in the ancient city of St. Augustine, Florida. He is a member of the Taste Life Twice Writers’ group and the Florida Writers Association. Born in Tokyo, he wrote extensively in the past for the Japanese media. Still, more recently, his interest has turned to writing in English and on subjects related to his memories of interacting with the two cultures. Some of his work has appeared in the pages of FWA anthologies and PSPP’s fall 2022 collection. He stays active, meditating...
"One Soul Alone" by Janet K. Baxter
May 13, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.17 MBJanet K. Baxter lives in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and is a member of the Charlotte Writer’s Club and Scribblers, a memoir critique group. Her stories, “Horse Whispering for the Average Woman,” “Southern Blues,” “A Frank Lesson,” “Cappie, The Boomerang Horse,” “An Angel’s Smile” and “Morgan: Our Escape Artist” have appeared in previous anthologies published by the Personal Story Publishing Project. Retired, Janet enjoys her new passion, thread painting, as well as dabbling in writing, ...
"Deathbed Promise" by Linda Vigen Phillips
May 10, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 8.95 MBLinda Vigen Phillips’ poems, essays, and flash fiction have appeared in such places as The Texas Review, The California Quarterly, NC Poetry Society Award-Winning Poems, Wellspring, Windhover, The Friends Journal, Moonshine Review and more. She has two published YA novels in verse, Crazy and Behind These Hands. She recently studied with poets Dannye Romine Powell and Jessica Jacobs to complete her first chapbook, For Survivors to Consider. She lives in Charlotte, NC where she is a member of ...
"To the Tall and Caring Man" by Lisa Williams Kline
May 06, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.3 MBLisa Williams Kline is the author of two novels for adults forthcoming in 2023, Between the Sky and the Sea, and Ladies’ Day, as well as an essay collection titled The Ruby Mirror and a short story collection titled Take Me. Her stories and essays have appeared in Literary Mama, Skirt, Sasee, Carolina Woman, moonShine review, The Press 53 Awards Anthology, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, and Idol Talk, among others. She lives in Davidson with her veterinarian husband, a cat who can open doors,...
"Black Dome Reprise" by Kenneth Chamlee
May 03, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBKenneth Chamlee’s stories have appeared in four previous Personal Story Publishing Project collections, and his poems have been in The North Carolina Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, Pinesong, Kakalak, and many other places. His latest poetry collections are If Not These Things (Kelsay Books) and The Best Material for the Artist in the World, a poetic biography of 19th-century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt (Stephen F. Austin University Press). Ken is Eme...
"In the Heart of Trauma" by Arlene Mandell
April 29, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.37 MBArlene Mandell lives in Linville, North Carolina, and is proud to celebrate her tenth year as an artist at the distinguished Carlton Gallery in Banner Elk. A native New Yorker and Head Start teacher, relocating with Captain Dan to the Blue Ridge Mountains, ignited a love of writing. Her “6-minute Stories” podcasts include: “Eye of the Dolphin,” “Artist Borne,” “Gobsmacked in the Gulfstream,” “Renegade Daughter,” “It Started with a Typo,” “Shopping for the Homeless,” “Thirteen Candles in the ...
"In Search of Solace" by Claudia Chowaniec
April 26, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 10.8 MBClaudia Chowaniec is the best-selling author of Memoir of Mourning. In 2021, Claudia received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to write Moving Toward Joy: how to survive the death of the love of your life and learn to live again. Published in journals and online, she writes literary non-fiction and poetry; she is currently querying agents. Claudia lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her recent adventures include travelling to the interior of British Columbia to kayak and to photograph grizz...
"The Worst Day of My Life" by John S. Viccellio
April 22, 2023 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.68 MBJohn S. Viccellio published Guess What’s in My Garden! in 2014 and Bacon Grease & Baseball in 2018. He wrote a monthly garden column for ten years, was a contributing writer for Carolina Gardener Magazine. He is a Master Gardener. His blog, A Walk in the Garden, has reached readers in over 140 countries and can be seen at johnsviccellio.com. He served 24 years in the U. S. Navy and worked as a computer systems project manager in industry. He lives in Matthews, North Carolina and is a member ...
"It's Not the Pearls" by Emily Rosen
April 19, 2023 09:00 - 7 hours - 10 MBEmily Rosen lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where for over 20 years and until her 95th birthday last year, she instructed classes in memoir writing, publishing two anthologies of stories from her classes, and the book, Who Am I? For two decades and until the local weekly newspaper folded in 2021, she wrote the column “Everything's Coming Up Rosen.” Her travel and feature articles have appeared nationwide while her poetry languishes in the pages of a fat notebook. She has worked as a copy write...
"Oh, Brother" by Stephanie Dean
April 15, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 9.45 MBStephanie Dean has been sharing her passion for cooking with readers of local newspapers for several years. She has written more than 60 spirited food articles for her food column, Bless Your Spoon. Happily settled on a horse farm in Mocksville, North Carolina, Stephanie enjoys simple country living. On any given day, one might find her brushing oil across a canvas or hear her plucking the strings of a fiddle. Stephanie believes that whether creating music or good food or dabbling in vibrant...
"The Drive" by Lucinda Trew
April 12, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 10.5 MBLucinda Trew is a poet and essayist whose work has been featured in Timberline Review, Broad River Review, storySouth, Eastern Iowa Review, Mockingheart Review, Flying South and other journals and anthologies. She was named a North Carolina Poetry Society poet laureate award finalist in 2021 and 2022, is a Best of the Net nominee, a 2021 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition finalist, and a Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices chapbook finalist. She teaches at Wingate University and lives an...