Creative Busyness

Writing

I used to make a joke that my parents gave so much creativity to my older sister, who turned out to become a writer, that I got just a enough to allow me to be a translator and write well, but without actually creating the stories.
In this blog I’m trying to change this and make my creativity grow.

  • BFF

    Her best friend has moved to a different country, on another continent, at the other end of the ocean. She passes by the beach and stops to look at that immense mass of water. She squints her eyes trying to see her friend. But it’s no use, her friend is too far… This post was Read more

  • Angels

    She saved my life. She found me laying naked at the woods behind her neighborhood. I was cold and feverish. My back was hurt. 2 big cuts near my shoulder blades. I had no idea of who, where, when and why I was. My mind was completely blank. They said it was amnesia and she Read more

  • The Fire Whisperer

    No one knows how the fire started, and even how it stopped. Everything happened too fast. The village was quiet that night. Not many people on the streets at that late hour. Except by Brandy Brady, the town’s official drunk. The bar had been closed for almost 2 hours, but Brady was still wandering around, Read more

  • Phones

    When I was a teenager, there were no cell phones. We had a landline at home. Just one. Our phone had wires. But not those long ones that you could bring to other rooms. So when in the phone we had to be either in the living room or at my parents bedroom. At that Read more

  • Feathers

    As a kid, his favorite dish was fried chicken. The crunchiness of the outside followed by the tender juicy meat on the inside. Then he set up his mind that when he grew up he’d raise chicken just to be able to eat them everyday. On his 15th birthday, he got his first chicken. It Read more

  • A lost key

    I was running late for a meeting and in the rush I dropped my key. She saw me dropping it, grabbed it and came after me. “Sir, sir, you lost your key.” I couldn’t go on without my key, so in spite of the hurry I had to stop. And when I turned to grab Read more

  • To Do

    My To Do list is incredibly strong and grows much faster than I’m able to get to it. It almost looks like it feeds on Miracle-Gro or something! And you know what’s the problem with it? The bigger it grows, the lazier I get. I guess I feel overwhelmed just to look at it. I’ve Read more

  • Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Rodeo Contest

    Today, Carrot Ranch website is starting a Flash Fiction Rodeo Contest. For more details you can check their website at: The Ranch They’ll be having 8 contest, every Tuesday and Thursday, starting today and going until the end of the month. I heard about it a couple weeks back and was planning to post my Read more

  • Beware of the Chicken

    They were playing hide and seek. There was one spooky house no one ever dared to go. He wasn’t afraid. The only thing was a sign about attacking chicken. Pfff… Chicken? Seriously? He got in and a gigantic shadow formed around him. Shaped like chicken. He was the size of a worm… This post was Read more

  • Fiction: On display

    They were visiting the Wild Western museum. During their visit, the guests could dress up. He decided to prank her. All dressed up, he hid in one of the displays. Stubbornly, he would only show himself after being found. A few hours later, the lights went off and the museum’s doors closed…   This post Read more

  • Fiction: Poetry struggle

    I was fighting with the rules I need to follow to write a verse. Does it need to rhyme? Does it not? How many syllables? Oh, so hard! Then I came up with this… I was tired, so I crossed the river to the west, and finally sat down to get some rest. This post Read more

  • Fiction: Busy Bee

    Thursday morning. Wake up. Migraine. Get up. Wake up the kids. Have breakfast. Get kids ready to school. Walk them to school. Work from home. Automation won’t work, do it manually. Stop to go to the doctor. Come back to a meeting. Work non-stop until 3:25. Bring suitcase down for hubby. Pick up kids at Read more

  • Fiction: If I came with a warning label

    If I came with a warning label, people may not like me much. My secrets and sins would be disclosed. And that’s not good. If a warning label would be attached to every person, then everyone would know about their secrets and sins. And get mad, and get hurt, and get away. No, I don’t Read more

  • Fiction: Project Management

    They were working on a new project. Her job was to create the schedule and plan for it. She was struggling with the project management tools, and that was impacting the start date. The team got anxious, afraid her struggles would delay the project so much that the deadline wouldn’t be met. When she finally Read more

  • Fiction: Honeymoon

    They met very young and were best friends forever. Then each went on with their separate lives. But all the time, they still had each other at the depths of their minds. One day, they meet again. They look at each other and see time flying backwards all the way to their childhood together. “Hey, It’s Read more

  • Fiction: The Big Birthday

    When he was little, he decided he would live 100 years. He had a happy, healthy, fulfilling life. The day before his 100th birthday he lay in bed peacefully thinking: “One more day and I’ll be able to rest.” The next day, after blowing up the candles, he closed his eyes and died.     Read more

  • Fiction: The distance between

    They are newly wed and snuggle every night to sleep. Time goes by and they realize it’s more comfortable not to snuggle. The distance between them in bed grows in the same proportion as the problems of the daily life increase. Soon, the bed will become too small for both of them.   This post Read more

  • Fiction: Stilettos

    We were doing a paint project outside when daddy came to pick the kids up for the weekend. He looked uptight, she was all dressy. I was covered in paint, tangled hair. She had a frown and seemed uncomfortable on her stilettos early in the morning. I had a big smiling face.   This post Read more

  • Six Word Story Challenge: Worship

    Ooohhhmmm. Ooooohhhhhmmmm. Oooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm. Inner Peace attained! This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller Six Word Story Challenge, with the theme Worship. Read more

  • Brother’s love?

    They were brothers, and as brothers they kind of love each other. But they also had their differences, and sometimes those differences would be so big that the love seemed more like hatred for those who would see them arguing. One day they had a disagreement. One of the big ones. It was so, so, Read more