My Five Sentence Fiction: Hunger

Thank you Lillie, for providing this "Your Choice" week in Five Sentence Fiction. At first I was thinking, "Huh, what am I going to choose?" But then I saw "Hunger" next to week one and I thought, "Duh!" Here it is:



     “What’d you like, Sugar?” she asks,
leaning over the bar to emphasize her generous attributes.

     Something you don’t want to give me, he thinks
as his eyes savor her

Ants are People Too! Oh, never mind...

Admittedly, this post has nothing to do with writing. Apologies.

Rather, I'd like to document (boast) about the lovely (back-breaking) time I had in my garden this afternoon. And the war I will soon be fighting (little mother effers!).

I LOVE my garden.


my garden

I love to watch things grow in my garden. And then eat them. Sounds kind of evil. Excellent. *presses fingers together dubiously*

My Five Sentence Fiction: Armor

"What the hell?" she grumbled, opening the screechy screen door to the muggy summer evening, immediately halting the wild growling and fleshy thumps.
In the week since her husband's death, she'd grown so furious with the the world, so cold, that she eagerly anticipated this chance to unleash her aggression on whatever was fighting in her backyard.
The widow raised her wooden bat and stepped into

Inspiration: Robin LaFever's Author Experience

Robin LaFever, author of the amazing Grave Mercy, is my current HERO.

Her author story is amazing. She makes me feel like I can do it, you can do it, he can do it (the guy sitting in the corner over there), and she can do it (the lady hiding behind the bookshelf). Sure, I'm just starting out, but she keeps me believing (like a Journey song) that if we're just true to ourselves (cue emotional,

Outline? We don't need no stinkin' outlines! Oh, wait...

I stumbled upon an interesting and exceptionally helpful post on Amanda Hocking's blog. The topic: outlines.

Outlines suck (I thought). Outlines are boring (I thought). Outlines...(you get the picture).

Reading about outlines would, therefore, be torture. And yet, after the first few sentences, I was HOOKED. Instant conversion. Outline bandwagon, here I come!

Suddenly, outlining has an obvious