Creative Writing Archives - The Creative Exiles

Alternating Sensibilities (The Long Way Around)

May 14, 2018May 14, 2018 Donald Loudon 47 Views 4 Comments alternating, feelings, inherent, insensitive, mental, sensibiities

Alternating Sensibilities … From cacophonous caverns of echoing platitudes extolling right vs wrong exuding from uneducated mouths to impassioned flowing

Creative Writing Short Story

Wrong Ride

May 10, 2018May 11, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 56 Views 2 Comments double agent, fear, short story, van, warehouse, wrong ride

Wrong Ride … Carol waited for the van that would take her to her Monday appointment. When she was able

Free Verse Poetry Travelogue

Kilauea – Pele Comes to Reclaim Her Lands

May 8, 2018 R J Schwartz 54 Views 2 Comments Eruption, Hawaii Volcano, Kilauea, Pele, RJ Schwartz, volcano

Kilauea Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes on earth and is currently in the midst of an eruption.

Essay

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

April 26, 2018April 26, 2018 Tony DeLorger 70 Views 2 Comments Damien Hirst, essay, ruse, sculptures, sunken treasure, Venice exhibition

The subjective nature of art and its expression can be hated, loved or worse, looked on ambivalently. But beauty is

Humor Memoir Romantic Poetry Satire

The Night Dad Taught Me About Gun Control

April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Kurt James 572 Views 10 Comments 1968, banning guns, Christmas, Colorado, gun control, heavy machine gun, Kansas, kurt james, kurt james author, toy guns

Gun Control – is a hot topic these days in America. What I wrote here is a slice of life

Humor Poetry Rhyming Verse

It’s a Weird Wor(l)d – a Poem of Puns

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 John Hansen 66 Views 6 Comments humor, humour, puns, weird words

Phyllis’s Challenge In Phyllis Doyle’s humorous piece “Six Pack to Go” she issued a challenge to try and come up

Memoir Poetry Satire

One Night With Pappy

April 18, 2018 Kurt James 530 Views 8 Comments Dighton, dodge, farm, grandma, grandpa, grandparents, Kansas, kurt james, kurt james author, pinball

One Night with Pappy In the heat of a Kansas summer in the year nineteen seventy, Only ten-years old

Creative Writing Short Story

Canoeing Challenge Legend of Bad Ass Clyde and Omar Bolene

March 9, 2018March 9, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 92 Views 0 Comments badass Clyde, canoe, canoeing challenge, Phyllis Doyle, short story, treacherous river

Canoeing Challenge … You can read the introductory story about Clyde at ‘Bad Ass Clyde – Don’t Even Go There’

Creative Writing Short Story

Cheyenne Rose

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 213 Views 4 Comments Cheyenne, Cheyenne Rose, farm, grave, harsh winter, Phyllis Doyle

Cheyenne Rose … Every day after breakfast Cheyenne Rose would watch Pappy dig in the ground under the ancient

Creative Writing Essay

The Creative Exiles Writing Group and Book Store

February 14, 2018May 11, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 311 Views 4 Comments creative exiles, Jamie Hamann, kurt james, RJ Schwartz, Tony DeLorger, writing group

The Creative Exiles Writing Group WHO WE ARE THE CREATIVE EXILES writing group is a WordPress site comprised of many of

Creative Writing Memoir

Past Life Recall – North Sea in 1703

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 203 Views 8 Comments 1703, North Sea, past life, Phyllis Doyle, recall, ship sank

Past Life Recall … The gentle rocking of the ship had lulled the boys to sleep. I was grateful for

Creative Writing Short Story

Wilted Roses

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 160 Views 6 Comments disappearance, grave, Phyllis Doyle, short story, sinister, wilted roses

Wilted Roses Justine had been out of work for over a month and things were getting tight. She had already

Creative Writing Short Story

Choice Given to Come Back, Would You?

January 28, 2018January 28, 2018 Phyllis Doyle Burns 169 Views 6 Comments Best Friends, cancer, choice given, come back, soul, spiritual

Choice Given … Amos McKinley is in fairly good health at the age of seventy-nine. He lives in New York

Humor Poetry Rhyming Verse

I Have No Voice For Song – But I Sing Along

January 26, 2018March 21, 2018 R J Schwartz 167 Views 5 Comments audience of one, bathroom singing, RJ Schwartz, singing in the shower, song

I have no voice for song My words headstrong With a powerful message But they just come out wrong

Humor Poetry

Cowboy Gambling

January 22, 2018May 16, 2018 Kurt James 659 Views 2 Comments blackhawk, Central City, Colorado, cowboy gambling, Cowboy Poetry, gambling, kurt james, kurt james author

Cowboy Gambling – Some of the old Colorado Rocky Mountain gold camps like Central City, Blackhawk, and Cripple Creek have

Humor Poetry

Cowboy Poetry – Mountain Folk

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 Kurt James 655 Views 8 Comments Colorado, Cowboy Poetry, kurt james, kurt james author, mountain folk, Rocky Mountains

Mountain Folk – Will photographing and exploring the Colorado Mountains as a professional western adventure writer and photographer you come

Creative Writing Memoir

Metamorphosis…A Change from Caterpillars to Butterflies…

January 15, 2018January 16, 2018 Anjana 323 Views 4 Comments laughter, metamorphosis, school kids

Metamorphosis….a change from caterpillars to butterflies…. Metamorphosis It was a Friday afternoon and we were planning on visiting some

Creative Writing Essay

Conspiracy, When the Worst is Realized

January 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 215 Views 2 Comments conspiracy, essay, global militarized power, monetary control, New World Order, realized

It’s hard to fight the overwhelming odds of conspiracy, hard to believe we have little effect on change singularly, but

Creative Writing Humor

Dust Bunnies and Flea Invasion

December 28, 2017December 28, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 323 Views 6 Comments dust bunnies, fleas, housekeeper, mice, mold, pest control

Dust Bunnies … I should have known the first time I met her, My friend Gladys was not the best

Creative Writing Short Story

Park Bench in Bailey’s Park

December 27, 2017December 27, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 230 Views 2 Comments park bench, Phyllis Doyle, proposals, sunrise, sunsets, woodland

Park Bench in Bailey’s Park This old park bench has been here in Bailey’s Park for so many years there

Humor Poetry Satire

Post Apocalyptic Christmas

December 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 193 Views 2 Comments apocalyptic, Christmas, circus, family, madness, poem

The joy of the season to all, the giving and receiving, a feast for the court of a king, a

Christmas Creative Writing Memoir

Christmas Morning Meditation

December 23, 2017December 23, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 378 Views 5 Comments alone, Christmas morning, cinnamon rolls, memories, parents, siblings

Christmas Morning Meditation I grew up with six siblings which was at times a mad house. It was Christmas morning

Creative Writing Short Story

Sanctuary Cities Welcome and Protect Illegal Aliens

December 16, 2017December 17, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 198 Views 2 Comments deported, illegal aliens, murder, rape, sanctuary cities

Sanctuary Cities … The group of six men got as close as they could to the border guard without being

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