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The Story of Menil, Moon Maiden
By Ruth Nolan, featured author at Writers Read 11 October 2016 You created me, brother, you got people right, not the twin who made them face-backwards, or into ludicrous stone-hens, you made me...
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Surrender
By Conney D. Williams he has painted himself tender like the confetti of the runner-up to the champion, stale, fearful and misquoted you know the look underbelly of your ego severed from safety of...
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Take that patronizing pat and stuff it
While I yell from the rooftops: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month By Kit-Bacon Gressitt I annoyed a man at dinner recently. It’s happened before. I’m pretty good at it. But this time I...
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Veterans’ Writing Group
November 15, 2016, Writers Read at Fallbrook Library Presents Veterans’ Writing Group of San Diego County reading from Away for the Holidays Preceded by open mic for original poetry and prose Date:...
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Driving Distraction
By Sharon Thompson “Oh, please.” Read that: “You’ve got to be kidding me.” This is the third time today I’ve shamelessly made a wrong turn past the same construction site. Unabashed, once again at the...
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GOTV: Nov 8, 2016 is Election Day
Think your vote doesn’t matter? There’s no such thing as not voting, a TED Talk by Eric Liu ... Read more at www.kbgressitt.com.
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Losing My Mother Twice
By Penny Perry After the funeral, I peer through peepholes in the oak door that leads to the living room. Clink of glasses. Ginger ale. Manischewitz. My parents’ friend Arthur wears a white shirt and...
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Trump Wins, Liberty Weeps
Trump wins, and Liberty weeps—for Mexicans, for women, for LGBTQ folks, for peace, for those who are differently abled, to people of color, for health, for people of other religions, for people...
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We went to the polls on November 8
And then it was the day after By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Election Day 7 a.m. I’m working the public library polling place in my little Republican-majority town, nestled amid the gray-green groves of North...
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White Privilege: This is America
Through African-American Eyes By Conney D. Williams I didn’t sit down to write all of this, but here I am. The election seems like a dream, but I’m not one of those caught off guard. I don’t see it...
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On hiatus
For the purpose of giving thanks and the recovery thereof. Love, K-B ... Read more at www.kbgressitt.com.
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Writers Read Presents Susan Carol McCarthy
Reading and discussing her Cold War-era novel A Place We Knew Well Preceded by open mic for original poetry and prose Date: Tuesday, December 13, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Location: Fallbrook Library, 124...
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Little Red Riding Hood and Mr. Wolf
A Trumped-up Tale By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Once upon a time, a girl child who appeared older than her years in her eponymous red and hooded cloak sashayed into the autumn forest to bring cake and wine...
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Fertility Prayer
A pantoum by Tom Somers Inanna, goddess of love and war, sings to Enki, god of water and wisdom, Mesopotamia circa BC 3000. Full of loveliness, like the new moon My fertile crescent is flecked with...
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Creative Writing Workshops at Fallbrook Library
2017 Winter Workshop Schedule Writing Craft In this workshop, you will use your experiences—real and imagined—as a platform for learning the basics of the writing craft. Whether fiction or creative...
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Writers Read Launches its 2017 Author Series with
An American Genocide by Benjamin Madley ... Read more at www.kbgressitt.com.
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The Gift of the Magi
By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher...
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Coming at Night to a Country Inn
By Penny Perry Longing for sleep. Cottage at the mouth of the river. Wet stepping stones. Hydrangeas at the door. Innkeeper’s gone fishing. Tree frog on the welcome mat. Mist from river and sea....
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Writers Read Presents “An American Genocide”
Author Benjamin Madley will read from and discuss An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe Date: Tuesday, January 10, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Location: Fallbrook...
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The Power of Art and Things to Come
A profile of artist Patrick Brown By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Artist Patrick Brown is a fairly quiet man—perhaps a bit shy—with a cute laugh, a slight Southern accent, and a gentle sadness that sometimes...
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