Wendy Parker/ Freelance Writer/Blogger

06/09/2021

If you're looking for a writing prompt, this is a good one. It also represents an epidemic of missing indigenous women. Share it.

Artist Jaime Black says the REDress Project is an expression of her grief for thousands of Native victims

05/31/2021

05/19/2021

Hi kids - gonna plant this here for the thirteen people who actually follow. Heh. Thanks for following, BTW. And be advised, I'm not an organizer - I rolled in well after organization took place and volunteered to write anything that might need to be written and subbed to local news outlets.

Y'all know I don't organize - but I will help out. I also have a Weird Aunt Wendy quilt in the auction. Yes. It's weird. And it will need a home.

The “There’s Something About Mary Fundraiser,” happening on June 4 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Front St. Warehouse, was organized by friends and local artists to help offset Burnside’s growing medical bills.

04/18/2021

Jaques Pepin is my spirit animal. I could watch Jaques and Jean-Claude (his bestie and co-hort/sometimes-host) make magic in a pan for days at a time. I’m not sure why, my husband only eats from the brown and white food groups, but I am continually mesmerized by glazes, sauces and edible sustenance that isn’t brown or white. Especially when it’s made by two distinguished French men with sexy accents who have been in kitchens since they were 13 years old....

http://mrsahpahkah.com/2021/04/18/pbs-rocks-i-would-fight-you-but-grover-taught-me-better/

Jaques Pepin is my spirit animal.  I could watch Jaques and Jean-Claude (his bestie and co-hort/sometimes-host) make magic in a pan for days at a time. I’m not sure why, my husband only eats f…

03/08/2021

Building

"This is going to be so neat. We can do it any way we want."

"I know! Let's put the kitchen up front so we can block off living space."

"I want it in the back."

"That doesn't make any sense. The bedroom goes in the back."

"It goes wherever we want it, remember?"

"We don't want it there, though."

"Yes. We do. I like it that way,"

"OK. If we put the kitchen in the back I say we put the f**k you beside the hell no."

"Oh really? Well I think we should put the eat s**t and die behind the you suck and add a tiny claw foot tub."

"This isn't going to be fun is it?"

"Your mom isn't fun."

"Duly noted."

03/04/2021

Shakes got the slights fer sure.

I think we need some Wednesday fun this week.

Deb tells us that names are important-so what is your Shakespearean Insult Name?
Mine is Knavish Onion-eyed ruffian.

Have a fun day.
Cat

02/28/2021

(Final prompt is to write a story using only dialogue.) "Toby, you gotta come up outta that sun, it's almost noon. We can't stay out here forever, you know they already lookin' for us." "I ain't never comin' up outta this sun. I ain't never gonna see the dark again. Fourteen months in that hole, I ain't never comin' up outta this sun "again....

http://mrsahpahkah.com/2021/02/28/almost-noon/

(Final prompt is to write a story using only dialogue.) “Toby, you gotta come up outta that sun, it’s almost noon. We can’t stay out here forever, you know they a…

02/28/2021

Today's prompt is to write a story using only dialogue.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write a story using only dialogue.

02/27/2021

Today's prompt is to write something that makes you laugh.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write something that makes you laugh.

02/26/2021

Today's prompt is to write about an article of clothing.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about an article of clothing.

02/25/2021

Today's prompt is to write about a cryptid.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about a cryptid.

02/24/2021

Day 24 Today's prompt is to create a new myth. What does a giant do in the dark all day? And why does the dark always light his way? You’d rather not know so the truth gets delayed. Does he stumble around? Bump his head? Scrape his toes? You’d rather not know; you make up how it goes. Does his lair smell of cheesy rags and decay?...

http://mrsahpahkah.com/2021/02/24/origin/

Day 24 Today’s prompt is to create a new myth. What does a giant do in the dark all day? And why does the dark always light his way? You’d rather not know so the truth gets…

02/24/2021

Today's prompt is to create a new myth.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to create a new myth.

02/23/2021

Day 23 Build a flash around a random word. (Semiotic) 570 words This was it. This was Monty’s ticket out and he’d be damned before he lost it. He’d been watching the hole for three hoursto make sure he was seeing what he thought he saw. Granted, his vision wasn’t what it used to be. Age was a bitch, especially with a physical job like cleaning showers at a truck stop....

http://mrsahpahkah.com/2021/02/23/the-talking-snake/

Day 23 Build a flash around a random word. (Semiotic) 570 words This was it. This was Monty’s ticket out and he’d be damned before he lost it. He’d been watching the hole for three…

02/23/2021

Today's prompt is to write something based off a random word.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write something based off a random word.

02/22/2021

Day 22 (296 words) I stood in the Mad River today, and let the cold, lugubrious water fill my boots. Fall is beautiful and sad on swift Ohio waters, when waterways are distended by sweet, late season rain. Verdant smells of wet soil, decaying trees and ecological destruction poignantly mark the end of growing season, but heighten the anticipation of frigid, swift rivers harboring bountiful rainbow and brown trout....

http://mrsahpahkah.com/2021/02/22/its-ok-to-go-mad/

Day 22 (296 words) I stood in the Mad River today, and let the cold, lugubrious water fill my boots. Fall is beautiful and sad on swift Ohio waters, when waterways are distended by…

02/22/2021

Today's prompt is to play with form.

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to play with form.