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.

  • Six Word Story: Accomplishment

    Thirteen miles, and no foot pain. This post was written in response to the Sometimes Stellar Storyteller’s Six Word Story Challenge. It is a true story, actually. In 2013 I tried that same race and at halfway I was struggling to decide if I’d call my husband to pick me up because I could barely step… Read more

  • Weekly Writing Prompt – double take

    I’m in the waiting room of the funeral home. Soon, I’ll meet the person who will be responsible for the burial of my beloved. Tears roll down from my eyes. I need to accept that the love of my life ceased to exist.   This post was written in response to the Weekly Writing Prompt… Read more

  • Berkeley to Bahia

    It was the year of his 70th birthday and he had a dream. To take the bike and some friends and ride from the place where he was living, Berkeley, CA USA, to the place where he was born and raised, Salvador, BA Brasil. He was a capoeira mestre and had several pupils or peer… Read more

  • Siblings

    Wandering and thinking of a gentle form of teasing his sister on their next game.   This post was written in response to the Weekly Writing Prompt # 14, with the provided words | GENTLE | WANDER | TEASE | GAME | FORM   Read more

  • Six Word Story Challenge: Return

    Hurtful words. Leaving to never return. This post was written in response to Six Word Stories: The Return of the Challenge. Image from pixabay.com (Foundry) To see other 6 word stories inspired by the same prompt, click the blue frog below: Read more

  • Firefly

    It was the night before the vernal equinox. The wood fairies were busy in wrapping up winter and getting everything ready for spring. In the bark of the trees, pupae are about to hatch, just in time for the equinox festival. Now, the day has come! Night and day have the same length and life… Read more

  • Flying away

    She lived in the foothills. Life there was good, but sometimes it could be painful. Not because of the place. The pain came from within. Then on a Sunday morning, she wakes up with absolutely no pain at all. She looks around and sees some old friends that were long gone. They’re looking at her… Read more

  • Versing

    This week, I’m trying to participate for the first time on the Weekly Writing Prompt, hosted by The Secret Keeper. In this prompt we are supposed to write in any form (fiction or poetry) using the 5 provided words. This week’s words are: | GIFT | COIN | VERSE | WORK | REASON |   I… Read more

  • My drops of tears I’ll turn to sparks of fire

    He hated Shakespeare! No one ever knew why, but he did, indeed. Maybe it was the fact that he had to study all of those plays and sonnets at such a tender age. With the thou’s and thy’s and all those fancy old words that no one speaks anymore. Then, when he went to drama… Read more

  • Giggles

    They were hiking up the mountain, when a rock slide blocked the trail just behind them. They heard the noise, run back to check. “On no! How are we going to go back now? Do you think we could climb over?” “I guess it would be too dangerous. The rocks may not be settled.” “What… Read more

  • The lion and me

    In this area of the land live a lion and me. I’m slightly smarter than him, he’s MUCH stronger than me. It’s an open land and we get the visit from several other smaller or not very smart animals. We feed on them, sharing the load. They satisfy us so I don’t need to bother the… Read more

  • Restriction

    She was a single mother of 4. Girl#1 and Boy#1 were good, healthy kids. Girl#2 was not healthy. Boy#2 was not good. He wasn’t bad either. But he had the bad habit of always getting in trouble. At 17 he was dating a crazy girl. She was trouble! Of the bad kind. They had a love… Read more

  • Snow Prince

    This post was written in response to the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, with photo prompt by Sonya, from Only 100 Words. It was created to be read with Cookie Swirl C’s (hehehehehe) voice. Although for Cookie Swirl C my Elsa would sound more like Anna, and the other way around, but oh well…. (Yes, that’s… Read more

  • Mrs. Bayle

    It was a small apartment building. 3 floors, 2 apartments on each. Mrs. Bayle has been there since forever, the oldest tenant in the building. She was the one who kept the flowers hanging at the porch. The building was not a masterpiece of architecture, all white, old, non-attractive. She kept the flowers to beautify… Read more

  • Revenge

    The world was colorful and happy. Except for Griswald. Griswald lived in the gray forest and liked it like this. He didn’t care about colors and happiness. For him the entire world could be gray. But that was not really his problem. As long as people didn’t bother him, he would keep quiet on his… Read more

  • Catching fire

    “Mommy, mommy, look! The tree and bushes are catching fire! Look, they’re all yellow and red and orange.” “Oh, sweetie-pie, that’s not fire, it’s the leaves changing color for autumn.” “Changing color?” “Well, every year we have 4 seasons. Remember Winter? We went skiing and built a snowmen?” “Yeah, it was cold!” “In Winter there were… Read more

  • Melting Ice

    She felt cold. Even in summer. She felt cold inside. Like her heart was made of ice. She was lonely and had no one. Life had taken from her what she loved the most. Her husband and kid are not in this world anymore. At work, she feels isolated from her peers and would barely… Read more

  • Sun

    The Summer was hot and dry. The sun was implacable. Not a little distraction would be gone without being noticed by it and light up into a fire. The mountain tops were ablaze. Sometimes closing in to residential areas, forcing people to evacuate from their own houses. As the flames leapt skyward, the quality of the… Read more

  • Goddess

    After he has been summoned by the spirits and left to the forest, she felt lost for a while. She knew that he wasn’t a bad person and that he would never have turned to the dark spirits on free will. Was he trying to save her and their baby from the red mark? He… Read more

  • 10 cents

    She lived a life that some would describe as being on edge. For being adventurous, but also for getting into financial trouble after her adventures… One day, she could not believe her eyes, when she saw a sign announcing a 5 acre lot on sale for 10 cents. 10 cents????? She didn’t think twice and bought… Read more