Category Archives: Clips

NOTE: If you didn’t get to this particular part of my site through the post “Personal Writing Challenge”, you will want to go there first to understand what you are reading here. If you’d rather not, please understand that what you are reading on this page is a completely rough, first draft clip of a story, posted as a part of the Personal Writing Challenge article. That said, whichever you choose, thanks for spending time with me and enjoy! That awful smell again. Not quite rotten eggs… worse. More like rotten eggs fried in tar. Jo Lynn couldn’t get that smell out of her head, even after she was awake and on her second cup of coffee. She lit scented candles in an effort to give her brain something else to work on in the odor department. Not that she thought it would do any good, it never worked any of the times before. She sat back down and tried to think of something else. She had lots to do today which wasn’t unusual lately. She had … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you didn’t get to this particular part of my site through the post “Personal Writing Challenge”, you will want to go there first to understand what you are reading here. If you’d rather not, please understand that what you are reading on this page is a completely rough, first draft clip of a story, posted as a part of the Personal Writing Challenge article. That said, whichever you choose, thanks for spending time with me and enjoy! “There is a God” he thought as he opened his eyes. He couldn’t yet smell it, but he heard the coffee pot kick on and start to sputter, and that was one of the first two things he was thankful for every day. The other was, of course, that he woke up to see another day. He wasn’t an extremely religious man, but he grew up going to church and knew that the Big Guy was looking out for him. He had to be. He rolled onto his back, rubbed his eyes and the pressed his skull between … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you didn’t get to this particular part of my site through the post “Personal Writing Challenge”, you will want to go there first to understand what you are reading here. If you’d rather not, please understand that what you are reading on this page is a completely rough, first draft clip of a story, posted as a part of the Personal Writing Challenge article. That said, whichever you choose, thanks for spending time with me and enjoy! As hard as he’d worked all of his life, Wade had never seen that hue on socks before. That’s not surprising though, since he never really looked at his socks. Even if he did, he probably wouldn’t have noticed anyway. It’s kind of hard to see that much color in a dark room and, God knows, he never left the room without his boots on. His curiosity was gone almost as soon as it had arrived. Yes, he had worked harder days than today, but he was ready for it to be over. He looked at the old … Continue reading →