Written for a KTHT prompt set by jules — Breaking the Chain of Fear — I cried at work last week. It started out merely as tears in my eyes mentioning my husband’s condition and that although I’m working all my hours again since May, our difficult personal circumstances haven’t changed. In fact, nothing is better. We still know nothing. The doctors have still not…

The home for all stories of five chapters or more — 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. Except for the lists below, you can also find me here: Twitter Visit the Blogable Club, a site about writing and blogging and which I run together with my…

Entice your readers to read every chapter of your story by using similar formatted titles throughout — On Serial Stories, I host stories of five chapters and longer. The idea for my publication started when I wanted the different parts of one of my longer stories — it once was a self-published book — to appear consistently on the same day every week. A fourth story —…

Thirteen Years #62: The story of a friend, and his fight with AIDS — Continued from… Arts, Crafts And An Aquarium “Annie,” Isaac suddenly called, “bring your camera. This one wants to pose for you.” Annie rushed over to the tank where Isaac stood. In the tank was a small octopus. It watched them as much as they watched it. Two of its tentacles…

He consulted the internet to spice up his love life — Nathan didn’t mean for it to happen. It wasn’t like he wanted to fall in love with another woman. Leaving Jennifer — his Jenny — had never crossed his mind. Still, the moment he got trapped in that rabbit hole, he didn’t know how to stop. …

For the November prompt of The Memoirist: On my journey of healing, I am learning to see the truth and forgive — My mom has been on my mind a lot these days, and I think it’s because of my daughter’s upcoming trip to meet her father. In my last session with my coach, I discussed my mom with her. No, not really discussed. Our conversation was about how I should allow…

Learning etiquette, manners, how to sit, to dance… and to interact with others — One thing that had always fascinated me, especially when I was younger, was finishing schools. I loved reading novels about young women going to those schools to learn etiquette and dance and everything needed to move around in high-class social circles, mostly with the prospect of finding a husband. The…

Written for the November challenge on the Sharing Food magazine — A mix of food and snacks, some traditionally Dutch — Back in the summer months, I treated myself to a day for myself when I visited a cousin. The drive there is about an hour and a half, but beforehand I had already planned to stop for coffee on my way there. …