What’s Making That Sound?

Writober 2025: Day Two Sounds>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦‍⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Sounds These are my responsesContinue reading “What’s Making That Sound?”

Staying With the Breath

Writober 2025: Day One Breath>Response Post 🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to my responses to each of the challenges 🐦‍⬛This is original work created by Maria L. Berg and this post counts as copyright. All rights reserved. 🎃OctPoWriMo 🦇Writober Flash Fiction 👻Halloween Photography Challenge Today’s Theme: Breath OctPoWriMo Take a BreathContinue reading “Staying With the Breath”

It All Starts With the Breath

Writober 2025: Our Deepest Fears>Prompt Post 🔗Post contains Amazon associate links (shown with Aal in parentheses)🔗Links in the Table of Contents are Jump links to each of the challenges to navigate easily to the prompt of your interest: OctPoWriMo for poetry; Writober Flash Fiction for flash fiction; Halloween Photography Challenge for photography🐦‍⬛Example poems are copiedContinue reading “It All Starts With the Breath”

Our Depth Study Gets Meta with Depth & Complexity

While searching “depth” on the internet I came across a teaching tool called “Depth and Complexity.” Why did I title this Our Depth Study Gets Meta? Meta is an adjective meaning self-referencing, as in a book that references itself, or a joke about jokes. What could be more meta than learning about depth using aContinue reading “Our Depth Study Gets Meta with Depth & Complexity”

I’m Thankful for Some Fun

The new issue of Gold Man Review is now available, and includes my poem “Taste of Temptation.” I really love the cover. That shark fin makes me so happy. Yesterday, at my parents’ house after attending a family friend’s memorial, I glanced through a bookshelf in my childhood bedroom that my parents keep insisting wasContinue reading “I’m Thankful for Some Fun”

The Writober Finale

These are my responses to the final Writober prompt post Fear of Death. OctPoWriMo Living With Fear of Death Color of the distant object deceivesThe slice of cloud dismembered from the skybecomes filthy while falling and floating byThe dead end road ends abruptlyI can’t taste the poison but it’s thereI will never hear his voiceContinue reading “The Writober Finale”

Fear of Death

Happy Halloween! You’ve done it: thirty days of poems, stories, and photographs; weekly sewing and music projects. And we’re here at the end. Our final Writober poem, story, and photo prompts of 2024. OctPoWriMo Poetry Toolbox If you didn’t make your word list this month, it’s never too late. I created this Excel Spreadsheet forContinue reading “Fear of Death”

Cruel Acts

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Acts of God. OctPoWriMo When They Blame God I can’t imagine how peopleblamed the city, everyone inthe city for being hit by a hurricane, but they did.So many said we deserved itfor our beliefs and our actions.Some said that God was punishing usbut aren’tContinue reading “Cruel Acts”

Fear of Acts of God

Welcome back for the thirtieth day of Writober. We are in our final days looking at the fifth universal fear: fear of extinction. Today, we’re looking at Acts of God, storms and other large events that are out of our control. Fear of Acts of God is the same as fear of bad luck, similarContinue reading “Fear of Acts of God”

Predator Attack

These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Predators. OctPoWriMo Predation I am the field mouse runningthrough the tall grass underthe sliver moon’s pencil lightEach push or pull changingpressure above me is a hungry winged monsterI zig-zag. I serpentine.So many eyes like search-lightscriss-cross this prairieHere it comes, the swoopI’m frozen, overwhelmedby smellsContinue reading “Predator Attack”