Applying to Join Us

Those interested in participating in our collective may apply via email using the Note to the Manager link above.

Please include:

The name you'd like to be known by.

An email address you actually check.

A small writing sample (at least one of the following):

Poems: 250 words or less
Fiction: 1000 words or less
Non-Fiction: 500 words or less

The collective will be presented with your request and vote on your admission. Then we'll email you with our decision. Simple as that. Good luck.

Legal Stuff

Guests are welcomed to visit our blogs, to read our creations, but are cautioned that all writings found on our blogs are the sole and exclusive property of the authors. Our works may not be reproduced in any form without the author's expressed written consent. Thou shall not steal never goes out of fashion. In this case, any thieves who might happen into our little diner would be stealing from the brains of some awfully nice people. You can't get much lower than stealing brains.

Thanks for visiting.

§ P.B. Adams, web master

Light in January
January on the Cape, clouds heavy with threat, ice and storm, but a rare winter wind from down south made raindrops dance on the frozen beach and chide those furious breakers till the ocean lapped the sands penitently. Sometimes one may find redemption in the presence of just such an extraordinary vision, sometimes peace and the healing of wounds, so I stood patiently drenched with the wordless glory of the place, the weather, the early morning sun just creeping through a cleft in the gray, a little gold illuminating the face of a child I had overlooked somehow. Her eyes were gray as storm clouds yet bright, glinting with rain or tears maybe. Something in her face radiated longing I have seldom felt, a pull so devoted to one desire that she seemed to belong there at least more than I and perhaps more than the impassive sands of that stark beach or the grim toothed rocks lurking just beneath the surface of the vacillating and often unforgiving sea.

© January 2013 by P.B. Adams