There’s a skunk In my bunk, And I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to sleep with him. Would you?

Like to write gibberish, about real (or made up) obsessions of yours, or practice creating micro-stories? Check out these three contests. One or all of them might be right for you!

Silvia, the boa constrictor, is nervously slipping up and down the trees around my home. "Chipper, are you ssure that it'ss ssafe to sstay?"

If a feller can speak freely, which I guess I kinda do darn well all o’ the time, one o’ the best things a boy like you could do is get hitched with a Cove girl. I canna erase ink. Maybe I shouldnta said that.

If, like me, you want to share joy with children through your writing and think that magazines might be the way to do it, you'll like today's post. I've compiled 9 magazines that you may want to submit to. Check out the information that I've gathered for you!

Short stories? Micro stories? Short poems? Like to write any of those? If so, be sure to check out my three writing contest suggestions for July 2025!

"Spring treats us fine," the haughty daffies say, tossing their magnificent heads, convinced that not even the sun is a handsomer yellow than they...

“But what will I do?” the man wailed, “What will become of my children?" I don't know what came over me as I watched him leave, but for...

It's been a while since I have put out a BtB (Beauty and the Beast) update on my blog. Let me share what has been happening behind the sc...

I have a passion for stories like hers. Perhaps that is because I am an orphan myself, which you know, although we did not talk about my...

I'm so glad I've gotten to share some of my successes with all of you and thankful for how much I have grown as a writer over the past year.

Christmas is coming! Quick! Put up the tree! Ornaments galore. Most of them make it to the tree. Little Brother drops one, and it...

Seventeen year old Corinne, playing the part of Beauty, is now her family’s sole provider. There’s no money saved up in the bank, no...

National Novel Writing Month always seems to sneak up on me. November arrives, and others around me begin their mad dash to get 30,000...

Happiness seems to be slipping through Naomi’s outstretched hand like so many grains of elusive, shining sand...

One thing led to another, and before I knew it, the less than 500 word story had ballooned into a 16,000 word story filled with lots of...

Everyone is frightened. Even the squabbling chickens above us have ceased to fight. Everyone is whispering about who will be next...

Cuddles dropped the goblin ear and launched himself at Rumplestiltskin, bowling the little fiend to the ground...

Hair. Lots of it. Dark, thick, shaggy, nasty hair. How come she’d never noticed that before? And that thing on his finger, glinting...

Isabelle, certain that the ancient looking goblin would be dead by the time she had her first child, hastily agreed. Anything to keep her...