In Today’s Journal
* Quote of the Day
* The Bradbury Challenge Report
* A New Short Story
* A Few Photos
* Of Interest
Quote of the Day
“No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.” Billie Holiday
The Bradbury Challenge Report
Participating in any challenge is a great way to have fun and grow as a writer.
The requirement is to write at least one short story per week, then let me know the title, word count, and genre per the format below. During the past week, the following writers wrote these new stories:
- Erin Donoho “Killcross Station” 2700 historical coming-of-age
- Vanessa V. Kilmer “Duck Duck Goose” 3201 Romantic Farce
- Christopher Ridge “Quiet Place to Rot” horror 2295
- KC Riggs “Raining In Cairo” 1576 General fiction
- Dave Taylor “The Mesa” 3,635 Magic Realism
- Dave Taylor “Maria” 2,840 Magic Realism
Congratulations to all of these writers.
A New Short Story
“Tradition” went live on Saturday at 10 a.m. on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. Go check it out. It’s a little ghoulish and a love story. And it’s free.
Only three stories left after this one!
A Few Photos
I recently broke out my old Sony DSLR (SLT-A65V) and shot this pic of our first Mexican Bird of Paradise flowers of the season. Not a great pic. The other photos are a few favorites from years past.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
Really Bad Signs That You Are Lost in Publishing
Dr. Mardy’s Quotes of the Week: Learning to Say No
Twelve D2D Features You May Not Know About
Note: The talented and lovely Billie Holiday was an influential jazz-blues singer who influenced countless artists down through the years.
Strange Fruit A hauntingly beautiful protest song sung by Billie Holiday in 1939 (“Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol, a teacher, under the pseudonym Lewis Allen, after seeing a photograph of a lynching)
Watch Holiday’s rendition of “Fine and Mellow”