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August 15, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

KANSAS-UZBEK: Duaneaka / Hasanuka by Duane L. Herrmann

Improbably and unlikely, yet it happened. How many people in Kansas know anyone from Uzbekistan? How many in Kansas even know Uzbekistan exists? How many know it’s a country? Very, … Continue reading KANSAS-UZBEK: Duaneaka / Hasanuka by Duane L. Herrmann

August 9, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Dear Little Duane by Duane L. Herrmann

Dear little Duane, This letter will be hard to read. I want you to know that whatever happens to you, however much you will want things to be different, you … Continue reading Dear Little Duane by Duane L. Herrmann

August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing adkwrites

ADK Writes: Judi Merriam

Judi Merriam published Empty Shoes by the Door: Living After My Son’s Suicide on May 16, 2022. On the afternoon of December 23, 2011, Judi Merriam’s eighteen-year-old son, Jenson, took … Continue reading ADK Writes: Judi Merriam

August 1, 2022August 8, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing adkwrites

ADK Writes: Roger Kessel

Roger Kessel published The Hedges: The Story of 12 Precious Acres on Blue Mountain Lake. Like the smooth entry of an Adirondack guideboat, The Hedges transports the reader to the … Continue reading ADK Writes: Roger Kessel

August 1, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Turn it Around by Duane L. Herrmann

The house I grew up in (age two to seventeen) was an old farm house dating to the end of the 19th century. In the barn was a beam with … Continue reading Turn it Around by Duane L. Herrmann

August 1, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN: TOPSY TURVY by Edward Pontacoloni

I live on an Adirondack Mountain. When I look out of my front window, I see down the mountain. When I look out of my back window, I see up … Continue reading ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN: TOPSY TURVY by Edward Pontacoloni

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Earth’s Next Triple Threat by Kyle A. Massa

“If you don’t return me to Earth,” I said, “who will clean my cats’ litter boxes?” The three aliens before me remained silent, electing to lounge on their floating metal … Continue reading Earth’s Next Triple Threat by Kyle A. Massa

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Fa-la-la-la by June Kosier

We need both…the joy of the sense of sound; and the equally great joy of its absence.- Madeleine L’Engle Three reasons Aliens would send me back to earth are my … Continue reading Fa-la-la-la by June Kosier

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Adirondack Center for Writing Featured Writing

Back to Earth by Duane L. Herrmann

You want to send me back to Earth? No! No!! NO!!! At least not to that place or time where I came from. If you can take me through space, … Continue reading Back to Earth by Duane L. Herrmann

THIS WEEK’S WRITING PROMPT

In Second Place, the recent novel by Rachel Cusk, a woman opens her guest house (“The Second Place”) to an artist for three months, hoping he’ll find a connection between her home and his work. What actually happens is much more confusing and unsettling.

Try writing about a memorable house-guest you’ve had at some point in your life, whether it’s your ex-pat uncle who visited once when you were nine or a visit from an old friend that sparked a new adventure. Remember, fiction is your friend (especially if you’ve got a house-guest story that caused, as the guest in Cusk’s novel did, substantial turmoil).

S ubmit your response by Sunday, August 15, 2022. All creative writing responses will be shared on @adkctr4writing and adirondackcenterforwriting.org. Note: You are expected to edit your own submission before sending it.