Category: Writing

• The God Bless America Fondue

  Derek Elkins has hidden a civic’s lesson deep within some of the most amazing hyperbole I’ve ever seen. I think you should read it, if for no other reason to see how he got, ‘a battleship named S.S. mom’ and an, ‘army of pecan farmers and boiled peanut eaters’ all in the same story with…

  Jamie Greening

  July 1, 2022

  Writing

  Bob Dole, Derek Elkins, Free Stories, The Flag

• I’m Not Crying You’re Crying Fondue

  I don’t know what it is about Joe Shaw, but he has the uncanny knack of taking simple moments and exploding them into gut wrenching emotion. Today the Fourth of July Parade turns into a life changing moment of personal liberty. Click on the retro merchandise of a Return of the Jedi speeder bicycle to…

  Jamie Greening

  June 29, 2022

  All, Writing

  Fourth of July Stories, Free Stories, freedom, Joe Shaw

• Library Rendezvous Fondue

  The Fondue Writer’s Club is at it again, this time with Independence Day themed stories. My favorite of these is when the writers take the theme and then zag as everyone else is zigging. That is what our hopeless romantic Paul Bennett does with today’s story, Independence Day, a delicious twist on the theme. Paul’s…

  Jamie Greening

  June 27, 2022

  Writing

• Sunrise Fondue

  There is a theme in our Memorial Day stories, I think, this year. It is the visitation of those who didn’t make it home. Joseph Courtemanche, finishes up our Fondue Writer’s Club free Memorial Day themed fiction with a reflective sunrise, and a picture that looks a lot like Steve McQueen. Know, dear reader, that…

  Jamie Greening

  May 30, 2022

  Writing

  Free Fiction, Joseph Courtemanche, Memorial Day