seanessay.com Falling down the rabbit hole, writing as I go, with my Free Fall Friday peers. prompt- What have you got on your shoulder honey? My wife and I parted ways in Chinatown. No, I don’t meant that tensions in our marriage had finally reached a boiling point, I mean we each wanted to buy […]
Revenge and Surprise
seanessay.com Our Free Fall Friday writing was founded by Mary, a dear retired lady. As we met on Fridays to freely scribble away, she would sometimes speak of having “writer’s revenge.” Her mother had often been rude to her, so writing was Mary’s chance to tell her side of the story. Like I do. Can […]
People Happy, Tropospheric and Boring
seanessay.com Falling freely down the rabbit hole—imagine the sights!—writing as I go, with my peers on Free Fall Fridays. Writing prompt- every second Monday Every second Monday I get off the trolley, hold my breath past the bakery, and stroll leisurely along the row of boutiques on tenth, making my way to Harrison Galleries. I […]
Meetings Foul and Meetings Competent
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words—until David Bowie footnotes) If tomorrow I was at a “gathering,” be it a community centre meeting, workshop, wedding reception, poetry recital, dinner party, two day business retreat, three day conference— OK, I’ll stop brainstorming now. Then I might be a timid wallflower; I would keep silent even as I saw things […]
Hoverboards in New London
seanessay.com Leaping from a prompt, falling down, down a rabbit hole, while writing to see what happens… at Free Fall Fridays. prompt- Thinking box “You are thinking,” he said ponderously “inside the box.” We were in the boardroom and BJ Edison, the CEO, was addressing all his senior and middle executives. I traced a box […]
The Nature of Despots, and an Innocent Prime Minister
seanessay.com (1,139 words) I wish my current prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, born out east with a silver spoon in his mouth, could somehow know as much about other leaders, and be as humble and grounded, as President Harry Truman was. My favourite 20th century U.S. president, Truman was a humble vice president until […]