Nature gives us gifts every day. Today I’ve already had my share. It’s summer, which means great bursts of laziness followed by great bursts of creativity, culminating in me keeping vampire hours. I’ve been staying up way too late the past week doing everything and nothing. It’s been great, but I’m determined to get backContinue reading “If I Get Eaten By a Chupacabra, Give the Cat His Medicine”
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Ode to Oak Season
Today at school, my sinus headache made me grumpy with my students, even though they hadn’t done anything to make me grumpy. But I don’t think they noticed; they were grumpy too. One boy bravely volunteered answers and completed his work while holding a tissue to his nose the entire class period. One girl hadContinue reading “Ode to Oak Season”
Phoenix
WOW. That’s how I felt when I found out my story “Phoenix” had been selected as a runner-up in the WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest. I’ve been a WOW! reader for years. I first discovered their quarterly flash fiction contest back in 2013. I submitted a couple of times, without success. My writingContinue reading “Phoenix”
Carie Juettner 