seanessay.com Falling down the rabbit hole, we write as we fall, not knowing where our words or ourselves will end up… Today’s Free Fall Friday pieces are four: two lighter, then two heavier. prompt- I love you to death, …and/or a photo of a dog in a box “How much is that doggie in the […]
Sympathetic to Travellers, Hating Warriors
seanessay.com (under 900 words) “Hey, sailor!” A United Nations naval contingent steaming near Indonesia, in the future, has my sympathy. Especially as thousands of sailors and marines of several nations find themselves zapped through time, arriving in the mid-pacific, in darkness, there to tangle with the U.S. fleet steaming to fight the Battle of Midway. […]
Cultural Appropriation Is Such Fun
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. 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 learned […]
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 […]