Author Archives: epbeaumont

Six Sentence Sunday, 8 April 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on April 8, 2012 by epbeaumont

The rain sluices down Hennepin Avenue and the bus to Utopia is nowhere in sight.  On the other end of that bus line, a crescent-shaped harbor looks out upon a blue sea, all the layers of color from sand-filtered emerald … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: Bassoon in the corner

Posted on April 6, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt: The bassoon lay … Continue reading →

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Summer NaNo: Novel Cook Pot, installment 1

Posted on April 3, 2012 by epbeaumont

Once you’re a writer, everything is a writing prompt. This summer I’m going to do a NaNo novel. The formal challenge is to do a plot skeleton and play it in counterpoint against the character interview. The responses to the … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 1 April 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on April 1, 2012 by epbeaumont

No, she won’t think about that, because ten years and five children later (two of them dead in their first year) her blank-slate, lily-white ignorance is so far away and so alien that it might as well be someone else, … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: Too spicy to resist

Posted on March 30, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt: It was too … Continue reading →

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Summer NaNo: In the Good Ole Summertime (Unconventional Beach Books)

Posted on March 29, 2012 by epbeaumont

In the good ole summertime… … It’s time to write a novel. That, and to lie around in hammocks reading huge books. My notion of a beach read is somewhat different from the usual: it’s books that require large stretches … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 25 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 25, 2012 by epbeaumont

It was quite the rage in her parents’ circle to educate their daughters at convent school, for all that none of them were Roman Catholic.  It produced a demure, innocent and unworldly debutante, properly obedient to duly constituted authority, but … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: The air was crisp

Posted on March 23, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. This particular sprint gave … Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Sunday, 18 March 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)

Posted on March 18, 2012 by epbeaumont

“Thank you, Araminta,” Charlotte said.  She prided herself on the good manners of her house servants, Araminta and her sister Sarah and the footmen, Scipio and Hannibal.  Thomas liked his male slaves to have names out of the classics; it … Continue reading →

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Flash fiction: Going home

Posted on March 16, 2012 by epbeaumont

Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt: I want to … Continue reading →

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