Author: Adirondack Center for Writing

Two Definitions of Noise by Allen Guy Wilcox We awake in a four-poster to the gradient sheen of atomic light,  a static conclave of still blinking stars  in the lace … Continue reading Two Definitions of Noise by Allen Guy Wilcox

Without conversation there is a nod between us at the restaurant. The table is a sea rocking us in different directions. You are unsteady. I balance like an acrobat. Into … Continue reading The Dinner by Katerina Canyon

This happened over fifty years ago. I was in my late teens. I was living for a few months with friends. One time, when I was there alone, the phone … Continue reading Wrong Phone Call by Duane L Herrmann

Relics from a childhood found in a time capsule buried in 1969 when I left home for college and life on my own at age 17. I never looked back, … Continue reading Childhood Remains by Duane L Herrmann

On my window sill are dirty broken pieces, obviously “trash” to anyone but me. I, the father, see bright and shining eyes of my daughter, 10, when she gave me … Continue reading WHAT I SEE (poem of a parent’s love) by Duane L. Herrmann

“If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.”- Neve Campbell. It was the summer of 1971.  I recently started my first … Continue reading A Negative Becomes a Positive by June Kosier

I was in a foreign country, in a bookstore. There were books in several languages, not grouped by language, but by content. Some of the content I had written about, … Continue reading A DIFFERENT ME by Duane L. Herrmann