by Rob Diaz | Jan 3, 2021 | Fiction, General Fiction, Prompted, Unedited
I will not write “2020-won” as the year on all of my checks and correspondences.I will not leave the holiday laser light projector on year-round just to mess with my cat.I will not blame Apple or its products for things that I can just as easily blame on...
by Rob Diaz | Jan 5, 2017 | Fiction, General Fiction, Prompted, Unedited
I will not rush to get my anti-resolutions out on time, because anti-resolutions, like a fine wine, take time. I will not share posts on Facebook which inform others that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or others are giving away millions of dollars, Xboxes and emus. Those...
by Rob Diaz | Jan 8, 2013 | Fiction, General Fiction, Prompted, Short Stories, Unedited
Written based on the Today’s Author Write Now! prompt on January 4, 2013, in which we are asked to write about an unnaturally foggy bay. For most people, silence is empty. I, however, have found silence to be full of stories – more stories, in fact, than the...
by Rob Diaz | Mar 23, 2012 | General Fiction, Poetry
This post is for the Write Anything Form and Genre Challenge: Write a Tanka Poem Photo: Magnolia tree in my front yard. March 23, 2012. sweet smells fill the air pink blooms paint the bright blue sky springtime storm winds blow petals dance and fall like rain...
by Rob Diaz | Oct 15, 2011 | Edited, General Fiction, Publication Announcements, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Short Stories
Within the next few weeks, you will be able to purchase your very own paperback copies of not one, not two, but three anthologies in which I have stories. First up, we have two books in the Chinese Whisperings lineup: My story, Out of the Darkness, appears in Chinese...
by Rob Diaz | Sep 21, 2011 | General Fiction, Publication Announcements, Real Life
Jodi Cleghorn and Dale Challener Roe have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged me to think about my story, “Out of the Darkness”, and what character I might wish I’d have written about if I could do it all again. Not being one to back down from a...
