“Berryman Place”! What an odd name! As an impressionable nine year old, I was relieved that it wasn’t “Bury man Place”. I don’t recall having seen any “berry” men, but I do remember the “Ice Man”, the “Milk Man”, the “Soda Man”, the “Coal Man”, the “Knife-sharpening Man” and (my favorite) the “Ice Cream Man”.…
Day: July 28, 2015
Two Up
By David Hayes See his work in WTP Vol. III #3 Easy. That’s what I thought when I read the prompt: “utilize two sides of a square…allow for room to breathe….shoot top down…” Easy…not! Maybe I was overthinking this hold concept but I could not put anything together that made me happy. Pearls is one…
Thanks, Kurt Vonnegut: Why We Do Art
By Susan B. Apel Kurt Vonnegut’s words suddenly intruded into my half-formed thoughts about why I write. I have been creating and submitting some flash nonfiction to literary journals, reading the formulaic and occasionally flattering, or so I choose to think, rejection letters. Blogging, here. Blogging elsewhere, about death cafes and aging in place, local…