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This month's prompt is about using the imagery and symbolism of tarot to develop a scene about the “black sheep” of a family.
Try an exercise to develop both scene and summary and connect past with present and future.
Who or what could make you risk it all?
Capture the sensory experience of a favorite back-to-school or classroom memory.
August's prompt is about using the imagery of tarot and the remembered elements of dreams to create story scenes.
The air was enchanted, electrified with what I can only call the love that moved between the four of us, who had experienced something so other than the war, of such a different order than a world of folly...
Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American writer and author of Vampires of El Norte, a historical fantasy with a speculative take on vampires.
What future would you make? What future do you fear? If you could know the future, would you want to?
I was fascinated by the Amish and the picture I took, with my eyes, and all my senses, the clop clopping of the horses, their smell...
Making art matters, and writing is an act of survival.