Category: Featured Writing

After several years of silence that started long before covid, I received an email from my only friend from our grade school years: “I tried to get hold of you … Continue reading To a Long Lost Friend by Duane L. Herrmann

I remember that winter night, as the snow fell and the wind blew, I read my first book. I was six, sitting on the couch next to my mother, who … Continue reading Words – Reading and Writing Changes a Life by Michelle Beagle

Yesterday I asked myself, “why do I write? Is it for fame? to make a whole lot of money? For inner peace? To share stories and perhaps inspire other generations? … Continue reading Why Do I Write? by Lourdes Santiago

I remember not being able to read – it was agonizing. I could not learn to read in school. No one knew, in the mid 1950s that there were such … Continue reading Being Able to Read by Duane L. Herrmann

Tim O’Brien is a combat soldier, teacher, author, and survivor of the Vietnam war. His writing resonates with my feelings and experiences of that time in History. I served in … Continue reading My Take on “The Things They Carried” by Lourdes Santiago

My father was in the US Navy in 1946.  The war was over before he was old enough to enlist, but he wanted to get off the farm, so took … Continue reading Letters from a Veteran to Be by Duane L. Herrmann

Warm blood, seeping throat, The wicked are out to play. None know it was us! Dark little shadow…. Swooshing knife takes its pleasure, Frozen in death’s grip. Warm blood slowly … Continue reading Three Dark Haiku by Gina Santiago