Monthly Archives: December 2023
TODAY’S SHORT STORIES:
TODAY’S HAIKU POEMS:
QUOTE BY DINAH SHORE
FOR TUESDAY DECEMBER 6, 2022:
Name Days For Saturday December 30, 2023
Name Days For Saturday December 30, 2023:
Brigita February 1 (Latvia)
Brigita October 8 (Lithuania, Slovakia)
BRIONA April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
Name Days For Friday December 29, 2023
Name Days For Friday December 29, 2023:
BRIANNE April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
BRIELLE April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
BRIEN April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
Name Days For Thursday December 28, 2023
Name Days For Thursday December 28, 2023:
BRIAN April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
BRIANA April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
BRIANNA April 23 (Canada & U.S.)
Name Days For Wednesday December 27, 2023
Name Days For Wednesday December 27, 2023:
BRET May 22 (Canada & U.S.)
Bretislav January 10 (Czech Republic)
BRETT May 22 (Canada & U.S.)
Creative Non Fiction Prompt For Friday July 13, 2018
Friday July 13, 2018
CREATIVE NONFICTION PROMPT
In an interview published earlier this year by Electric Literature, Sofia Samatar discusses the concept of speculative memoir with authors Matthew Cheney, Carmen Maria Machado, and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson, all who have written work that blends memoir with elements of the highly imaginative that is typically reserved for science fiction, fantasy, and fabulist literature. Machado talks about alternating between real events and genre fiction that act as extended metaphor. Stevenson says, “In some ways introducing the imagined is perhaps a way of daring to approach the material.” Think of a specific memory whose particulars seem blurry or difficult to approach. Write a speculative essay or short memoiristic piece in which you approach this memory by inserting a blatantly fictional aspect or character. How does this element of fiction open up new or alternative possibilities for the way you’ve long recalled this event, situation, or relationship?