by anita marie moscoso
a
Soul Food Cafe Project
Peebles Bookstore has cats in their window.
Real cats, the kind of cats that meow and shed fur and sharpen their claws on your furniture.
They’re also the type of cats that spend all day waiting in the window for that one person to come into their store that will have an allergy attack [...]
by Anita Marie Moscoso
From The Soul Food Cafe Project
Travelling with Enchanteur
After my Grandfather passed away my Grandmother started having dreams about my Grandfather coming home.
In her dream ( okay, she called it a nightmare ) my Grandfather would drive up in his old Jeep ( and I don’t mean he owned the gas guzzling SUV [...]
by anita marie moscoso
Inspired by
The Heroine’s Journey Project
Datura Manzanillo walks alone and she started walking alone back in 1964.
That was the year she murdered her husband because she got tired of him.
She was tired of his jokes and the sound of his voice and the way he buttered his toast.
That was the worst; the careful [...]
By Anita Marie Moscoso
I really wanted to write one of my ” Strange Tales ” about how I found the entrance to the Alluvial Mine…but hands down the truth was far better then anything I could have made up.
So here it is…
A Strange Tale From The Heroines Journey Project
When I was about six years old we [...]
Inspired by True Events and the Following Excercise at the Soul Food Cafe:
Stop To Ride The Carousel
When I was a kid my Aunt Sharon and I were down in Seattle by the Water Front when she told me about a fire that destroyed what was left of the Luna Amusement Park.
During it’s day the [...]
You might not write ” Twilght Zone Stories ” but good advice is good advice so check this out. Comments in italics are mine.
Rod Serling Teaches Writing
Jeanne Marshall’s Seminar Notes, 1962-63
ADVICE TO WRITERS
DON’T LET SENTIMENTALITY REAR ITS UGLY HEAD!!!
I’m not sure if this is what was intended butI wrote a story where I killed [...]
From The Following Soul Food Cafe Project:
Murderous Self
http://heroinesjourney.wordpress.com/2006/07/18/murderous-self/
When I first saw that our next stop on the Journey was to visit our Murderous Self…I wept tears of joy, kissed my computer monitor and prepared to spend happy, fulfilled hours doing what I love to do best.
What’s that?
Well, I take reality and give it a little [...]
by a.m. moscoso
Inspired by The Soulfood Alphabet Project
” E” is For the Cosmic Egg
If you can’t sing good, sing loud-
Winston Groom
This piece was inspired by those posts where people have written in and said that they don’t feel like their writing would ‘fit’ with the ‘theme’ of the Café Blogs.
Well, I was the original Square [...]
( Packing Bags, Step 1 in a Writing Journey at the Soul Food Cafe )
Here I am, getting ready to start another writing project and getting ready to once again pray that the target I’m trying to hit is as big as the side of an Ocean Liner because I can promise you that no matter [...]
