This month…we’re late. We usually post on the first Friday of the month, but this October, life was just too full for all of us. But what we do get to share are some of your favorite top posts from over the past few years. We’ve dug into the attic, dusted them off, and we’re ready for a Throwback Thursday, (on a Friday). So settle in and enjoy what we’ve dug out of the memory box…
Parker Broaddus
Author of A Hero’s Curse & Nightrage Rising
As I dug back through my top shared posts, (that is, those collaboratively published with the our Quills writer’s group), I found, surprisingly, that the fan favorite, by a healthy margin, was The Prophet & the Assassin, a Jonah-like short story I published exactly one year ago. I really enjoyed this one, so I’ve linked it again here, just in case you missed it the first time, or perhaps you’d like to share with a friend.
Landships are usually a safe way to travel the dunes. Unless it’s a “clanker,” built from parts of the old combustible engines. They can’t go high enough to escape the desert sands that come out of the South like a solid wall of death. But it wasn’t the time of year for storms.
I’ve dreamed of starting over. I’ve dreamed of a fresh slate. It’s a myth. You can’t start over. The memories remain. The command remains.
There is no fresh slate for the living.
Robin Lythgoe
Author of As the Crow Flies
Polishing my All Seeing Eye, I carefully scanned all the Quill posts, searching for that one treasure would light up like a beacon. That one post that everyone loved more than all the others. But wait, what’s this? There’s a tie?
Patricia Reding
Author of Oathtaker
The Bookmobile is Here!
What are your earliest memories of reading? Of finding yourself surrounded by the musty smell of books begging you to open their pages, to peruse their inner glories? I know this post will age me, but for me those memories date back to a time when I was growing up in a small rural community.
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