by SM CADMAN
In a dying world, a mother carves out a brief moment to bathe her child and reflect on both her heartbreak and her salvation.
Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, books, boxed set, Dallas, Dystopian, Fiction, Historical Romance, Houston, Kindle, reading, Rebecca Lovell, Romance, Sci-Fi, short story, Texas
by SM CADMAN
“Time collapsed into incompatible moments, vanished in the anesthetic and in the shot that numbed my leg for 24 ambushed hours.”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, accident, amwriting, author, car accident, Charlotte F. Otten, health, poem, Poet, Poetry, Professor, recovery, resilience, walking again, writer, Yale
by SM CADMAN
19. “Yeah, but you can put anything into Irish stew,” he said with a wink then poured in a generous shot of Kilbeggan whiskey.
Categories: Creative Writing Prompts, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Creative Writing, Creative Writing Prompts, Ireland, Irish, Irish Literature, King Niall, King Niall of the Nine Hostages, Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Day, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Writing, Writing Prompt, Writing Prompts
by SM CADMAN
Have a great story to tell? A book or music plug? A WIP the world must hear about? Are you an author-writer? Or an artist, photographer, designer, or musician that wants to be seen and heard? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Categories: Articles, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Art, Articles, book plugs, call for submissions, Design, March, Music, photography, poem, poems, Poetry, Prose, short story, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's Day, submissions, Tech
by SM CADMAN
“Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.” Pablo Neruda “The Aztecs used to sacrifice people to the gods, cutting out their hearts. I wondered what happened when they cut someone open and found a broken heart, or no heart at all.”
Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Fiction, Mexico, Salvatore Difalco, short story, Valentine's Day, Yucatan
by SM CADMAN
“I turned 30 today. I am overeducated, underemployed and single, living day to day, hand to mouth, head in ass, with no long range plans, few prospects, and zero motivation. My mother worries about me. A good mother always will, particularly when her beloved child turns out to be a total fuck up.”
Categories: Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Birthday, Fiction, gnocchi, Italy, Mothers, Salvatore Difalco, short story, Sicily, Toronto
by SM CADMAN
Have a great story to tell? A book or music plug? A WIP the world must hear about? Are you an author-writer? Or an artist, photographer, designer, or musician that wants to be seen and heard? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Categories: Articles, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Art, Articles, book plugs, call for submissions, February, Music, photography, short story, submissions, Valentine's Day
by SM CADMAN
“At the last hour of a wine crazy night in my drumbeat heart the love of God awoke.”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
“I am consumed by desire. I intend to do what is right but action gives off smoke like fire. I would be harmless like the monk who will not handle a water gourd,…”
Categories: Poetry & Prose, Writing • Tags: amwriting, author, Creative Writing, CUNY, India, New York, New York City, Poet, Sri Lal, writer
by SM CADMAN
Can I Involve You? By Finn Janning I took the elevator up to the third floor. Normally, I would have taken the stairs in order to get a bit of exercise. But normal doesn’t exist anymore. Did it ever? I just turned thirty-seven and I am feeling slightly lazy after having written books for the last decade or so. Not that writing books is a cushy job. Quite the contrary. It’s freaking hard work. It’s just that I do it […]
Categories: Art, Photography, & Design, Fiction, Writing • Tags: amwriting, Art, artists, Barcelona, Castellano, Castilian, Catalan, children, Danish, Denmark, Finn Janning, Geordanna Cordero-Fields, Life, love, Love and relationships, Markus Spiske, marriage, PhD, Philosophy, short story, Spain, Spanish, Unsplash
