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Nov 13, 2014
A couple of micro-fictions from our Flash Fiction workshop: The Silent Treatment I asked you what the makeup is for and you pushed me away. Only to rope me back in. Miming is a weird hobby. – By Abby Hunt I was supposed to write a story that people could relate to. The blank screen […]
Nov 7, 2014
We woke early on the morning of October 25, 2014 and headed out to climb Mt. Crested Butte (Elevation: 12,162 ft or 3,707 meters) near Crested Butte, Colorado! Leaving the hostel and heading for Mt. Crested Butte which is the mountain in the background. Walking through an aspen forest early on in our hike. The […]
Oct 29, 2014
Despite the fact that I have never been to school, nor had any burning desire to attend school it took me quite a while to come to terms with the fact that I don’t want to go to college. But here I am at almost 19, decidedly not going to college and instead sitting in […]
Oct 27, 2014
Some photos from the bike trail behind the youth hostel here in Crested Butte.
Oct 24, 2014
Love. It’s something we try to fit into a little box of what the media tells us it should be. It tells us to dismiss young love, how could it be “real”? Our culture tells us “You haven’t lived long enough to know what love is.” I think that’s bullshit, does that mean we don’t […]
Nov 4, 2013
An excerpt from Zaill’s writing project: Sometimes in your life it forgets to divide between babbling the brooks and volcanos in your mind. Before they called on me and already I came, why, somehow feeling so lacking even in my shameful tardy trending pain. Through these steps I take on fell dawn dreary like roads, […]
Oct 29, 2013
Last Wednesday some of the writers hiked up Mt. Crested Butte. The snow was too deep to go all the way to the top but we got close! Here we are at the”almost top” of Mt. Crested Butte enjoying our sandwiches!
Nov 15, 2012
A letter from Writing Retreat student Sita. I have learned more in this trip than I have in my entire life, if that’s even possible. Perhaps it’s just my perception of knowledge that has changed. I learned to do things that I didn’t even think I would be interested in, like dancing and Catan (which […]