Elena Hartwell and Writing

One of the best aspects of working from home is flexibility of schedule. I love having freedom to plan my day based on mood, inspiration, and my to-do list. And the weather. It may seem weird that a writer considers weather, but I’ll explain that further down....

Eddie Cayce by Lynn Cahoon

Hi, I’m Eddie Cayce. I’m a junior interior designer with a top Seattle design company. Or at least I was last week. Now, I’m home in New Orleans. A place I left as soon as I chose my college. I never have looked back. It’s not that I...

A Day In My Life ~ Vinny Delgado by Leslie Budewitz

I’m not big on change. I’m big on a full-bodied Oregon Cabernet Franc, and on the rich syrahs and grenaches grown in the Horse Heaven Hills in southeast Washington. I’m big on a spicy French Viognier, with notes of apricot, peach and a hint of honeysuckle that will...

Chen Su Lin by Ovidia Yu

Hello from Syonan (Japan Occupied Singapore). It’s August 1945. My name is Chen Su Lin and I’m twenty-four years old, born in the year of the metal monkey. Some say the war is over in the West, Germany has surrendered. Here we are isolated without radios and Japan...

Augusta Hawke by G.M. Malliet

Things have been different since my husband died, returning (as I thought) from saving lives at one of our local hospitals. Of course I was in mourning, but it was a mourning cut short when I learned he’d been unfaithful to me. Even learning the circumstances...

Madeline Franklin Wilcox by Anne Louise Bannon

May 28, 1872M. WilcoxRancho de Las FloresLos Angeles, California My Dearest Sister Carrie; I would normally wait until Sunday to send you my usual missive, however, your gift of that lovely, flowered lawn arrived last Saturday morning, and I have just now realized...