Dangerous Writing, by Chuck Palahniuk open.substack.com/pub/chuckpalah…

Check out my short story, ‘Driving Lessons,’ by Christl Perkins on Medium.com link.medium.com/jY8AB9rmxOb and check out my process at christlrikkaperkins.com #shortfiction #bipocfictionmatters #medium

Welcome to the Writers Grotto first Reading and Meeting of 2025: 5 - 7 pm, Friday, January 17, 2025. Leslie Kirk Campbell, Paul S. Flores, Margaret Jumae Lee, and Brad Balukjian read poetry and prose. Emceed by Michelle Marie Robles Wallace.

How do you choose your character names?

Featuring Poet and writer Shikha Malaviya, comedy writer Jessica Martinez and fiction author Christl Rikka Perkins. "Gente, Folks" author Norman Zelaya will moderate @amazine_jess @christlrikka135 @zelayan2022

The Laugh Effect: Humor and Satire to Change, Cope, and Criticize - Poet and Writer Norm Zelaya, Poet and writer Shikha Malaviya, comedy writer Jessica Martinez and fiction author Christl Rikka Perkins. See this Instagram post by @thewritersgrotto instagram.com/p/DGXHum3xdVD/…

Happy Birthday Mom, I don't know how old you would be today: you could be 89 years old if we go by your death certificate or you could be 84 if we go by your residency document. I intend to find out. How old you were. What happened. Who you were. #americanrashomon

Hi All, In my recent Substack post, I explain how I use absurdity, hyperbole, and irony in my short story, "The Fifteenth," published in God's Cruel Joke Literary Magazine 1, January 2023. christlrikkaperkins.substack.com/p/what-we-talk…

Reading + Meeting: April 18th, 2025 April's Reading & Meeting featured Grotto writers with new books out. Sezin Devi-Koehler, Khan Wong, Swetha Amit and Janine Kovac read from their recently released or forthcoming books and will have books for sale. Terry Tierney was the Emcee.

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Dad! You would be 89 years old today. I, like you, don't talk a lot. I am reserved. My short story, "You Soar," is about how you taught me to have courage and resilience. Now I am using my courage to find out what happened.

Pray for my nextdoor neighbor Darlene Crowson She slipped and broke her hip, fractured her elbow and bumped her head really bad. She is in her 9O's and still takes out her own garbage. She is very tough but she asked me to pray for he so I told her I would turn on the JUICE.🙏

Should Whiteness be taught in high school a high school Ethnic Studies class? whitenessproject.org #ethnicstudiesteacher #multiculturalism #criticalracetheory

Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens. And at this moment in

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G.B. Holley (Pen Name) GeorgeMJHRing George Miller EM Templin - Novelist Susan Sage Nicci Wright Swapan CS godot perdue Charlotte Bennardo - Just another writer E.B. Sullivan STEPHEN DOUGLASS Dharam Nahal Shyamal Kumar Das Mellie Miller Karl D Austin JudyKeith Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press Melissa Henderson Lamont A. Turner Jayson Gallaway

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Dad said nobody will waste their time to wish me happy birthday.

Yall wanna hear some crazy shit? Our home owners insurance premium went up because , drum roll pls… We DONT have a mortgage. That’s right, our house is paid off & we are being penalized for NOT having a mortgage. You can’t make this up…

Come join us at the Writers Grotto's Meet and Read. Featuring: Samina Ali, Christina Hyung-Oak Lee, Michelle Wallace, and Maw Shein Win. Audrey Ferber, author of "April In Paris" and other essays, will be the emcee.