A New Bloom

A New Bloom

Where the Starving Activist Lives

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  • Behold, The Red Giant

    Feel the breeze that rustles the leaves of the trees and runs across the plain chasing the herd, leading the people toward life. Behold the Lore that lives to teach the love of land and people. Feel the loss of leaves and trees, no more running and chasing across the plain that is dry and…

    AR Neal

    21 November, 2021
    writing
    plot
  • No Wednesday is Ordinary

    You know the song, my beloved says as he mumbles the wrong words to the right tune. I squint one eye, tilt my head to lift my ear in hopes it will sniff out the sound of a tune on a breeze that doesn’t blow. I can’t hear it. It must be from too long…

    AR Neal

    3 November, 2021
    Flash Fiction
    NotNano
  • Broken Sprinkler Rain, Or, Why I’m So Angry

    My jaw hurts, but not today. That was a week ago, maybe a month. Maybe a lifetime. ‘You are stressing.’ The diagnosis from my beloved when I tell him that my jaw hurts. I don’t want to take any Tylenol because that helps his back. He stresses, too. I take a different anti-inflammatory, the one…

    AR Neal

    2 November, 2021
    Flash Fiction
    NotNano
  • Thank you: A Letter to @theebillyporter

    I told you I was writing a letter to the incomparable @theebillyporter. I’m even doing it the same day I made the pronouncement. I’m even doing it while listening to his rendition of I Am Changing. It, along with the live version of Why We Sing are in my Spotify ‘liked songs’ that I often…

    AR Neal

    22 October, 2021
    Non-fiction
    faith
  • Ragged, But I’m Round Here

    Before you say a single word, I know. I didn’t even bother to look to see the last time I posted here, but lissen … No, I mean – lissen! Have you looked outside lately? Stuff’s real. I just waxed poetic over on Academia.edu in response to a very nice fellow academic who’d read a…

    AR Neal

    21 October, 2021
    Non-fiction
    life
  • Infinite Possibilities

    So. Writing is a challenge. For those who think oh, it’s nothing to write some of these stories, books, and screenplays … I mean, they’re just making it up, right? let me share something with you. That’s just the very first step to a good story, book, or screenplay. It’s easy to tell when that’s…

    AR Neal

    14 July, 2021
    Family, writing
    Real life
  • Come With Me!

    Hey! I know. You’re wondering what in the world I’ve been up to. Or maybe you don’t care, and that’s fine. I’m alive, thanks. In fact, I’ve been writing (cue music of shock and awe). Yes. I mentioned I’ve been trying my hand at screenwriting; I signed up for a video course on it and…

    AR Neal

    14 July, 2021
    writing
  • Pause

    It seems I pause a lot. I don’t post here regularly, I drop in and out to leave tidbits and partial thoughts. But when I am not here, I am here … being, working, thinking, agonizing, planning. My counselor said when last we talked that there was a weariness that she hadn’t seen in me…

    AR Neal

    4 June, 2021
    Non-fiction
    emotional health
  • Getting Old

    I’ve been thinking a lot about getting old. There are things that happen as the days go on and it seems easy to fall into the rhythm of it all. Achy joints, flabby skin, grey hair, medications … yet the changes one sees in oneself can be subtle that the years go by slowly in…

    AR Neal

    29 May, 2021
    Non-fiction
    life
  • To Dust

    One of my mom’s dear friends died recently. The service was streamed online, Facebook I think. Social media death … It was interesting timing, since I have been thinking about my final repose. I have no one to take care of those sorts of things, being an only child whose son has his own challenges.…

    AR Neal

    20 May, 2021
    Non-fiction
    future
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