Several tips to edit your shorter stories, but which also work for those longer ones — There is a big difference in writing a story of less than fifteen hundred words, as opposed to a story of three or ten thousand words, or even a full novel. With shorter stories, the trick lies in getting your reader engaged in the story quicker. Keeping your stories tight…

The home for all fictional and non-fictional stories of five chapters or more (last update: 19.03.2023) — As many of you might have noticed, once a week I post a chapter of the series, Thirteen Years. I publish that series on ‘Serial Stories’, a publication I created a couple of months ago. Why Serial Stories? I used to post the chapters for Thirteen Years with a different publication, but there…

Finding your way through my ever-growing content — I started publishing stories on Medium in February 2021, and with my ever-growing content, those stories needed some kind of index. Before 15 September 2023, the date of the last update, I had my index in this post, adding links to my different lists. But, I wanted it to look…

When one generation suffers from traumas, it can become a burden for those who follow — I am currently reading a book about family systems and their impact on you as a person. Do you know those fountains with different layers where water runs from the first tier down to the next? The author uses the fountain as a metaphor for the family system, where you…

When I see the book in our collection, it always puts a smile on my face, remembering how my mom decided on my name — My parents were married for about eighteen months when my mom fell pregnant with me at the age of nineteen. My mom was an avid reader. Once she was on maternity leave, she tackled the stack of books she still wanted to read before my birth. The title of one…

The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks — a book review — As happens with algorithms on so many platforms, when you look at one thing, it gives you similar suggestions. Audible is no different, and while I listened to She Lies Close by Sharon Doering, I received the recommendation to listen to The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer…

We didn’t talk every day, not even every week, but always stayed interested in each other — I joined the medical corps at the end of 1989, and was stationed in the personnel office of a military hospital. Back then, every office had a mixture of uniformed and civilian personnel. …

Shadows Of Mayday #43: Saying goodbye #2: One by one their loved ones bury the victims — Start reading here Series: Shadows of Mayday Several personal stories of people boarding the same plane, which crashed in the Namib desert on the coast of Namibia…marierebelle.medium.com On the same day of Kaitlyn’s funeral service, Anthony was buried on the farm of his parents in The Free State, one of the nine South African provinces.

The first time she woke up with this feeling, she didn’t recognize it. The next time, she did. — Lips moved, but no words broke the silence of the night. An arm jerked, but the covers kept it from flying aimlessly. Eyes rolled from side to side, seeing images on the inside of her closed lids. A low moan broke the silence in the room. She awoke with the…