Kenosha Writers’ Group

“The Worst Possible Thing”

Many, many things, skunks, vampires and a toad that gives you warts, are bad. An itch unreachable, that’s really ill fortune. If it’s a love itch, man that yearning is awful.
I once owned a Beagle Hound that lay around the house and farted all day long! That is a grabber and will send you for the oxygen tank even if gramps had to gasp for a while, and besides we always got it back in the nick of time.
Have you ever had a chocolate bar and happen to drop it in some gross looking stuff on the sidewalk? Accidents will happen, but that, well, just an unholy mess. [Read more →]

“The Worst Possible Thing”

I don’t know which is worse, seeing it happen or remembering. I’ve wrestled that problem for years and have yet to find an answer. At least one that makes me feel better.
Doctors have tried everything under the sun. From hypnosis and regression to drugs and counseling, but nothing has ever put it to rest. It lives in my mind as though it has a life of its own.
I don’t usually talk about it. Especially to strangers. It’s too grievous. Too…heart-rending. When I do speak of it, I’m usually stopped before I finish. I can tell by the look in their eyes that what I’ve said has truly moved them, but they don’t want to hear anymore.
I suppose imagining me on that ladder with a child in my arms, the flames shooting out of the window and the fireman handing me another one is just too much to take. I know its a terrible imagine. I’ve seen it a million times. There’s rarely a day I don’t. [Read more →]

Click here to read this month’s Member spotlight, featuring S’zanne M’Chel

This month’s prompt is “The Worst Possible Thing.”

Submit your 500-750 word essay, fiction, creative non-fiction, poem or other work to info@kenoshawritersgroup.com no later than October 25 if you would like to see it posted on the site.

So, get to it!