• Struggles this week

    Struggles this week

    The struggles this week are ones created by Mother Nature herself. we recently had some pretty bad weather on Monday that desolated a portion of a city not too far away from us and parts of the northern part where we live. This caused a power outage for two days, with power being restored at…

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  • Song Lyric

    Song Lyric

    What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever? I have a lot of song lyrics in my head after many years of music but only one printed on my skin. I was going through some rough times and got a tattoo on my forearm. If you can’t read it the lyric is ‘The…

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  • Story Ending

    If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose? If there is one story I wish I could change the ending to it would be Old Yeller. The one story that will make a grown man cry. I would want it to be one of a boy and his dog walking off…

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  • Poetry Sunday-Whispers

    Poetry Sunday-Whispers

    Lips pursed in quite hush, telling rumors or truths, a light breath against my ear, as you come so near, words light as you your lips do brush, words hard to hear, as your lips are pursed to whisper in my ear.

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  • Biggest Dream

    Biggest Dream

    What’s your biggest dream? My biggest dream is to have a published book. I just want to say I’m a published writer in the classical sense. I consider this my published work and appreciate everyone who reads my stories.

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  • Short Story-Unknown Caller

    Ding! Marty pulled the tv dinner out and looked at it, dropped his head and made the ten foot walk to his couch to eat meat loaf and mashed potatoes again. He had been out of his parents house for six months a missed his mother’s cooking, but he had to get out on his…

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  • Promise

    It took me a long time to realize that I had a drinking problem and an even longer time to do something about it, but I finally did. I have been completely sober since the 28th of November 2025. I was proud of myself before that because I wasn’t drinking as much but I knew…

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  • Podcast Episode: Writing, Time, And Inner Worlds

    Pip: Born To Write — where the same person who writes a knife-fight origin story also has opinions about Instagram and Staffordshire terriers. Mara: That range is exactly what this episode is about. chris chonos covers everything from creative struggles and flash fiction to screen habits and poetry. Let’s start with the writing life itself…

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  • Let’s have Dinner

    If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be? I would want to have dinner with…I have a fascination with the bad guys. I kind of find their psychology. So I guess I would want to have dinner with Darth Vader. I’m a huge Star Wars nerd and being able to…

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  • Best Purchase

    What is the best purchase you have ever made? My first iPhone . I know there is the big divide between Apple and Android or PC and Mac users but I’m glad I did that because they last forever and are durable. It put me on the path to having some really great electronics and…

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