I’ve tried Story-A-Day May before but I think this time is the charm.
My first story is flash fiction, less than 100 words.
May 1
She had listened to their complaints quietly for about thirty minutes, smiling and nodding as if she cared.
Now that they had finished talking, she stood, decisively. Across from her, they also rose to their feet.
She leaned forward, placing both hands on her desk, and spoke clearly and calmly. ‘Go to hell.’
She held their gaze for a moment.
Then she turned, navigated the sharp corner of her desk one last time, picked up her purse, and walked out.
Feminism is not over, our work is not done. The fact that people still wince when Feminism comes up means there is still a lot of work to do. People wince because some parts of the media, of the ‘old boys’ club have convinced them that Feminists are mean, scary, unshaven bitches. People wince because…
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I was doing some yoga with my sister’s Girl Guides on Friday and when we got to Warrior Pose (my favourite!) I said something about sinking into the pose and a bunch of thoughts clicked together for me. When I do yoga properly – and by that I mean a focused practice instead of using…
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Right now, all over the world people in Guiding and Scouting are celebrating the joint birthdays of their founders Robert and Olave Baden-Powell. Guides call it Thinking Day, Scouts call it Founder’s Day, but it’s all the same celebration, thankfulness for the things that Guiding and Scouting have brought to the world. All day, I’ve…
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Every year I think that this is going to be the summer that we do all the fun things. I think that I am going to make the most of each day and really make sure that the boys have the kind of summers I remember from when I was a kid. I always want…
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I mean to get more things done. But I don’t. And I accept full responsibility for that. It’s not that I don’t have enough time, nor that I have too much to do, nor that I don’t know what my priorities are. I have lots of time, and while I have lots of things I…
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Yesterday, my day got chopped up into little pieces and because I hadn’t scheduled a time to write, I ended up late at night with next to nothing written. Today, the same thing happened (although to be fair to myself, I did have to help take everything out of the basement, go to a four…
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I’ve spent a good chunk of this weekend at a storytelling workshop, learning how to hone my stories and give them a bigger life than my current version gives them. It was tough, standing up in front of a group of other tellers, telling this story that wasn’t quite ready to be told* because I…
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I was holding the practice pads for my line and a black belt kicked me in the ribs by accident. It hurt, but it was also really weird because I just wanted to take it as part of the process and carry on.* When you’re practicing a martial art (or any sport, I guess), there…
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This was going to be a super-productive day. Heading to the book fair at school first thing* , swinging by my husband’s store to do a few hours of accounting before heading home to do some writing, and some planning for some AAMP** events we have coming up in the next few weeks. It didn’t…
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