Just over a month ago I made it into the second round of NYC Midnight’s Short Story Challenge. The challenge started in January with 4700 writers. After the first round we were reduced to 790. In each round writers are placed in heats of about 30-35 writers and are given a genre, subject and character […]
parenting
Loving Jude
It starts as a jabbering. Slowly rising in level and urgency. He’s awake. Again. Sometimes when it is the fifth time his jabbering has turned to crying in the middle of the night, I think he must hate me. It is only in the light of the morning that I realize, my infant son does […]