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NaPoWriMo Day 1

Charlotte Hamrick

Polychrome I want to snuggle into your skin, see through your eyes, tilt your nose up to the sky & take a deep  drought of your breath. Is your brain messaged by  Octopus tentacles, millions of suction cups kissing your cerebellum? Is your understanding prickled by the toes of earth’s creatures? Is your empathy colored with chlorophyll and seed? We are sea and forest sky and flesh,  we see differently, together a world made for all. * Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash Prompt via Napowrimo.net Continue reading NaPoWriMo Day 1

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Creative Nonfiction That Will Drop Your Mouth Open

Charlotte Hamrick

As you may know, Twitter has a thriving writing community. It’s where I found many of the writers that I love to read. Today’s Creative Nonfiction selections have three writers I came to know through Twitter and two that are new to me, although I found their stories via Twitter links. For many years memoir and essay have been right up there as my favorite genres. I like the intimacy of memoir and the discovery of essay. All of the following touched me – in ways alike and different. Pat Foran and Cathy Ulrich share their stories of death and … Continue reading Creative Nonfiction That Will Drop Your Mouth Open