Image by Susan Foster. I sometimes participate in a monthly six-word photo story challenge on Medium . When I saw that "play" was ...

 Is There a Reading Season? Image by author, Susan Foster Some people think of summer as the time for reading novels. Their favorite time to...

Winter is Coming We've had an unusually long season of warm autumn days and beautiful fall colors this year. Today is October 22, 2022, ...

Daughter, Find Your Purpose: A short story. I haven't written much this past month or so, but I've always found a writing challenge ...

Wow - it's been over a month since I've published here. I've been beating myself up about neglecting this blog again, but some s...

 I'm trying again. I posted this story here last week and two hours after I published it, it disappeared! I have no idea if the cause wa...

When my insecurities woke me up one night, I wrote them down. Image by Susan Foster. A Writer's Doubts. Are the hours I sit in my chair ...

Shelling pistachios taught me a lesson about life's challenges. Forrest Gump’s insight on life was a little incomplete. Tom Hanks, while...

Do you ever write or type a word a couple of times, and then it begins to look really strange to you? This happens to me a lot. I start to w...

Word Prompt Flash Fiction. Image by author, Susan Foster. This piece of flash fiction was written using word prompts. See below for more det...

Anyone who's been reading this blog for a while knows that we have a cat. A very old cat. On March 24th, I wrote about it being his 18th...

 A wife takes a cue from a dog and initiates a big change. (Image by author, Susan Foster). This piece of flash fiction was written using wo...