Category Archives: poetry

Flash poetry: A midwinter night’s dream by Chiara De Giorgi

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Val

Welcome to The Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to write a story including the words, “Will winter never end.” This week’s story comes from Chiara De Giorgi. Chiara dreams, reads, edits texts, translates, and occasionally writes in two languages. … Continue reading →

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Flash Poetry: Across the Fence by Cathy MacKenzie

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Val

Welcome to The Spot Writers. September’s prompt, a hard one: Write about a character whose one ability is to amplify the best traits in others. Who would they hang around? Who would they choose to avoid? This week’s post is … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Friday: (poetry) Ice Cream Night

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Val

This week, I was honored to have one of my poems, “Mother and Toddler on Ice Cream Night,” featured in the Purcellville Gazette. It’s a poem I wrote for one of my writing groups in answer to a prompt: write … Continue reading →

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Flash poetry: Ombrophobous by Dorothy Colinco

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Val

Welcome to the Spot Writers, bringing you your weekly dose of flash fiction. The prompt for this month: Check out these 10 fancy nature words. Choose one of the words, and make it either the title or theme of your … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Waves of Madness by Cathy MacKenzie

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Val

Welcome to the Spot Writers’ weekly flash fiction post. This month’s prompt is “into the void.” Today’s post comes from Cathy MacKenzie. Check out the teen anthology she recently published (under her imprint, MacKenzie Publishing), 21 stories by 21 writers, … Continue reading →

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Flash Poetry: Reflection by Cathy MacKenzie

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Val

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt was to look out the window and write about what was out there. Today’s post comes to us from Cathy MacKenzie. Through her nanoscopic publishing company MacKenzie Publishing (nanoscopic is a thousand times … Continue reading →

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Flash Poetry: The Sunflower by Cathy MacKenzie

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Val

Welcome to the Spot Writers. The prompt for this month is “spring flowers.” This poem comes from Cathy MacKenzie (an old poem from her “archives” since she forgot about writing something new for today). Check out her website at the … Continue reading →

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Spot Writers: Kamikaze Bambi

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Val

The prompt this week was to write about a car. I was going to write about my beloved 1989 Camry… until this happened. This story comes to us from Val Muller, author of The Scarred Letter, Faulkner’s Apprentice, and the … Continue reading →

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Poetry: Out of Season

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Val

Today’s post comes from Cathy MacKenzie. The theme for this month is “Out of Season.” When Cathy can’t come up with a story, she writes a poem; this is her offering. She has two new short story compilations coming out … Continue reading →

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Spot Writers: The Leak

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Val

The following poem, modeled after Poe’s “The Raven,” is based on an event that happened to me one cold, rainy night in January, when my (third-floor) washing machine decided to break and leak during the most rainy storm of the … Continue reading →

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