Don’t Get Me Wrong, But There is a Need for Change
A Need for Change…Such talent, such creative minds abound on The Creative Exile site, yet so few of the members
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Creative Writing
Many forms of writing exist which can cross over multiple categories. They are imaginative, inspiring, and often contrasting with academic writing. Creative writing can be fiction or non-fiction and often use an artistic or non-conforming approach to their formatting, word usage, or appearance.
Alternating Sensibilities (The Long Way Around)
Alternating Sensibilities … From cacophonous caverns of echoing platitudes extolling right vs wrong exuding from uneducated mouths to impassioned flowing
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Wrong Ride
Wrong Ride … Carol waited for the van that would take her to her Monday appointment. When she was able
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Kilauea – Pele Comes to Reclaim Her Lands
Kilauea Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes on earth and is currently in the midst of an eruption.
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Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
The subjective nature of art and its expression can be hated, loved or worse, looked on ambivalently. But beauty is
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The Night Dad Taught Me About Gun Control
Gun Control – is a hot topic these days in America. What I wrote here is a slice of life
Read moreIt’s a Weird Wor(l)d – a Poem of Puns
Phyllis’s Challenge In Phyllis Doyle’s humorous piece “Six Pack to Go” she issued a challenge to try and come up
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One Night With Pappy
One Night with Pappy In the heat of a Kansas summer in the year nineteen seventy, Only ten-years old
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Canoeing Challenge Legend of Bad Ass Clyde and Omar Bolene
Canoeing Challenge … You can read the introductory story about Clyde at ‘Bad Ass Clyde – Don’t Even Go There’
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Cheyenne Rose
Cheyenne Rose … Every day after breakfast Cheyenne Rose would watch Pappy dig in the ground under the ancient
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The Creative Exiles Writing Group and Book Store
The Creative Exiles Writing Group WHO WE ARE THE CREATIVE EXILES writing group is a WordPress site comprised of many of
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Past Life Recall – North Sea in 1703
Past Life Recall … The gentle rocking of the ship had lulled the boys to sleep. I was grateful for
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Wilted Roses
Wilted Roses Justine had been out of work for over a month and things were getting tight. She had already
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Choice Given to Come Back, Would You?
Choice Given … Amos McKinley is in fairly good health at the age of seventy-nine. He lives in New York
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I Have No Voice For Song – But I Sing Along
I have no voice for song My words headstrong With a powerful message But they just come out wrong
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Cowboy Gambling
Cowboy Gambling – Some of the old Colorado Rocky Mountain gold camps like Central City, Blackhawk, and Cripple Creek have
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Cowboy Poetry – Mountain Folk
While photographing and exploring the Colorado Mountains as a professional western adventure writer and photographer you come to realize that
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Metamorphosis…A Change from Caterpillars to Butterflies…
Metamorphosis….a change from caterpillars to butterflies…. Metamorphosis It was a Friday afternoon and we were planning on visiting some
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Conspiracy, When the Worst is Realized
It’s hard to fight the overwhelming odds of conspiracy, hard to believe we have little effect on change singularly, but
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Park Bench in Bailey’s Park
Park Bench in Bailey’s Park This old park bench has been here in Bailey’s Park for so many years there
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Post Apocalyptic Christmas
The joy of the season to all, the giving and receiving, a feast for the court of a king, a
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Christmas Morning Meditation
Christmas Morning Meditation I grew up with six siblings which was at times a mad house. It was Christmas morning
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Sanctuary Cities Welcome and Protect Illegal Aliens
Sanctuary Cities … The group of six men got as close as they could to the border guard without being
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