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'The damn swing had squeaked for as long as she could remember. A good gust of wind and the thing squeaked around, so loud you could hear it in the… Continue reading Word Prompt: Try | Story Prompt: from the book “The Strangers” by Katherena Vermette

https://youtu.be/FXdyc1cYgx8 'When Writing To Heal was published in 2004, it was the first journaling book that was rooted firmly in scientific research. What drew me to it was my own… Continue reading Word Prompt: Vision | Story Prompt: from the book “Expressive Writing: Words That Heal” by James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D. and John F. Evans, Ed.D.

https://youtu.be/zKEIpfuUrhI 'Holly's hands were blistered and her shoulders had never been this sore. Water polo had nothing on canoeing. The closest they'd come to being this sore was when she… Continue reading Word Prompt: Energy | Story Prompt: from the book “The Theory of Crows” by David A. Robertson

https://youtu.be/PyAsywcsFDo 'Jane's smell - that is, her lilac perfume - hits me when I open the door to her boudoir. I can't smell lilacs without Jane coming to mind. Inside,… Continue reading Word Prompt: Bloom | Story Prompt: from the book “Hang The Moon” by Jeannette Walls

https://youtu.be/-HmsuDCl5Ls 'Goss, now in his mid-fifties, became fascinated with river pollutants in a unique manner. He grew up in Kenora, where his father was warden of the area prison in… Continue reading Word Prompt: Promise | Story Prompt: from the book “Original Highways” by Roy MacGregor

https://youtu.be/tfvqYPV813U 'Imagine you're walking through a field. The sun is out, but it's not too hot. The ground is soft underfoot, a mix of meadow grasses, wildflowers, ferns and other… Continue reading Word Prompt: Whispers | Story Prompt: from the book “To Speak for the Trees” by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

'At the time, I believed that I'd wasted my twenties by not having come out of them with a finished book, and I bitterly lambasted myself for that. I thought… Continue reading Word Prompt: Depend | Story Prompt: from the book “Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed

'The child started reading and everything went along just fine until she got to that word. It was only five letters, but there might as well have been twenty there.… Continue reading Word Prompt: Frozen | Story Prompt: from the book “How To Pronounce Knife: Stories” by Souvankham Thammavongsa