Round one UNUSUAL 12/22

McCarthy Road

This essay was written the day after I drove the McCarthy Road for the first time. The images are from an assortment of trips on that...

When I read the new prompt I knew right away that I would interpret it very literally. There are a lot of metaphorical uses of “road”, as...

I grew up in Northeast Ohio. The roads went north and south, and east and west. Additionally, Lake Erie was always in my view. And Lake...

Thank you, Eunhee, for this unusual prompt. It inspired me to review my memory of various roads I have seen and travelled. My first...

I live in Australia where the distances are vast. I have recently returned from Darwin and flying from Sydney to Darwin takes over 4...

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' What prompt should I suggest?' I thought a lot about this. So I wrote several prompts in my notebook and decided to choose one of them....

Spring in Alaska is different from the lower 48. We can be well into May and still have patches of snow and ice. I originally wanted to...

I live in Western Oregon and here spring is alternately a wonderful riot of color, especially a particularly shocking shade of green, or...

Roadside Phlox and Bloomers One of the sure signs of spring here in west central Florida is when the pink/purple phlox appear along the...