6-minute Stories

• "Reconnected" by Eloise Currie

  I should have developed emotional armor, but I’d gone the other way.Stunned, I leaned hard on the doorjamb, knuckles white on suitcase handle, nerves frozen as they did when gut feelings proved true.Eloise Currie lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has kept a journal for 30 years and uses it as source material for short stories and nonfiction. Since retiring, she has been a member of a number of writers groups. She has tutored high school and adult students in Language Arts. She has edited two books as well as short stories. She has had pieces published in the Personal Story Publishing Project as well as the Old Mountain Press anthology.

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• "Nothing a Little Tobacco and Mother's Spit Won't Cure" by Bob Amason

  We all know our mothers have magical powersIn Mom’s day, if you were not bleeding and could walk, you were perfectly fine.Award-winning author Bob Amason is a retired US Air Force Lieutenant colonel who was a college professor for 25 years. A Florida Writers Association member, Bob writes historical and modern suspense novels under his pen name, Frank A. Mason. His Journeyman Chronicles series on the American Revolutionary War won the 2023 Florida Writers Association Gold Royal Palm Literary Award, Florida’s most prestigious writing prize. His latest is The Sunlit Silence series on WWII in the Air. Bob’s writing has been published in six anthologies, prestigious academic journals, and books. He is president of the St Augustine, Florida, Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and is a National SAR Museum Board member. Dr. Bob Amason lives in Florida with his overachieving wife, a research professor who is the author of a series of children’s books.

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• "Believe in Magic" by Phyllis Castelli

  The wind is the sculptor that shapes the shoreline.Vince poked holes, and I scuttered along crab-like, planting sprigs one by one.Phyllis Castelli is at home for a while on one of the northernmost beaches in Currituck County, North Carolina. Beauty is everywhere, especially in the sky, the wild horses, and the ever-changing sea, a true invitation to create something magical. She and her husband, along with their Labradors, Cara and Oliver, are hoping for happily ever after. Phyllis’s poems and essays have appeared in Quillkeepers Press, The Avocet, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Tar River Poets, among others. As a very young poet, she published Gentle, I Think, a book of poems with pen and ink illustrations.

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• "Ford Fairlane and the Rolling Temple of George Harrison" by David Lusk

  Wires dangled from under the dash leaving only silence and an emptiness of spiritIt was a time of meaningful conversations. George rode with me every day offering words of encouragement.David Lusk is a retired consulting arborist/psychologist/writer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has previously written several articles for the Winston-Salem Journal and the trade publication, Tree Care Industry Magazine. He lives in a beech tree woodland with his wife Amy, their three adopted, rescue-shelter dogs - Jessie Girl, Jack, Abbey and Maple Tree the cat. He often retreats to the Pamlico Sound with the idea of learning to sail but happy to paint or play guitar in view of a marina full of boats and the occasional sighting of a bald eagle he named Churchill.

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• "The Ginseng Genie" by Arlene Mandell

  I had "sent a message out into the universe" asking for help.This unexpected path began bearing fruit and I was happy.Arlene Mandell of Linville, North Carolina, is proudly celebrating her 13th year as a portrait artist at the Carlton Gallery in Banner Elk, NC. A native New Yorker, relocating to the Blue Ridge Mountains with Captain Dan inspired a love of writing. Arlene is a member of “Sue Spirit’s Writing Workshop” and the “Fab Five Writing Gals,” both in Boone, NC; and is a longtime contributor to “Gateways: A Creative Arts Journal,” and to the “Personal Story Publishing Project.” Her many memoirs can be heard on the “6-Minute Stories” podcast.

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