At our August meeting, the Siskiyou Writers’ Club chose Alan Eddy’s story Camping in the MARBLE MOUNTANS A good portion of my childhood was spent camping in the Marble Mountain Primitive A...
I’ve been a Jimmy Buffett fan for many years, I’ve seen him perform! a couple of times One of his songs was, “Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw?” A few years ago I wrote a little parody of that song. ...
I avoided COVID the first time around, but it’s back, and finally caught up with me. Fortunately, the current version isn’t nearly as lethal, more like the flu, a bad cold, or a combination of both. ...
Don’t Talk to Strangers/A Case of Mistaken Identity By Jean Grojean © When I was growing up my parents often told us not to talk to strangers. After traveling for 24 plus hours on the train from Singa...
Imagination Run Amok By Bob Mason Amok – Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary – Adverb – Definition 2: “in a murderously frenzied state” The instruction from the judge came innocuously enough, by email. ...
Dunsmuir’s Historian Ron McCloud recalls a local story he heard 50 years ago. He says that he is amazed how well he remembers the details of the ‘Legend of the Princess in the Mountai...
Don Janssen One of my best friends when I was very small, was a little red haired girl named Alice. Alice’s parents and mine were good friends. Sometimes my folk...
by Evie Clough This story won a Scott Valley Writing Contest in 2014. Ker-Plop, Ker-Plop, Ker-Plop. Keep that line in rhythm so we don’t tangle together, with all of us doing the ‘rolling red cast.’ G...
By Mike Grifantini Siskiyou Writers’ Club Short Story Often, they would do this, after work and school Rods, waders and vests waiting by the door Off to the river, as the sun sank. The anticipat...
Written By: Hugh Smith of Yuba City They changed the name now. Now it’s the McCloud Mushroom, Wine + Music + Art Festival. Not enough people interested in mushrooms I suppose. Coulda fooled me! ...