Faith Ann Guptill enjoys frolicking in the rain in Pacific Northwest woods. She gardens for exercise and writes for fun/peace of mind. Her writing style is genre fiction. Many of her short stories have been published in the MockingOwl Roost and WordPeace. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing and a published author in Brian Mills Ab Terra Anthology. Impressed by a Michelangelo Quote, "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark", she hovers at her desk in hopes to encourage others to aim for the stars. here.
Faith Ann Guptill enjoys frolicking in the rain in Pacific Northwest woods. She gardens for exercise and writes for fun/peace of mind. Her writing style is genre fiction. Many of her short stories have been published in the MockingOwl Roost and WordPeace. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing and a published author in Brian Mills Ab Terra Anthology. Impressed by a Michelangelo Quote, "The...
Ab Terra 2023 delivers the fourth installment of an annual short story anthology that seeks to recreate the feeling of the moment when we first laid eyes on our world through stories of science fiction belonging to all, from Earth. Eleven stories from both emerging and recognized science fiction authors offer diverse cultural perspectives and...
Nobody can hear you scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. That sounded perfect to CIB11. They had heard enough screams today. CIB11 looked forward to living in the vast emptiness of space. They could imagine being wrapped by nothingness: a bubble of peace they could float in. CIB11 pondered their choice to be part of the New Hive. The...
"the boy knew, and the man remembered, by sudden upheaval, in some great catastrophe or struggle in his mature life, these all come again into the light."
by: Helen Hunt Jackson
This is a line from her book Romona that she wrote in 1884 that is as powerful today as it was over 100 years ago. If you get the chance, read Ramona, her romantic novel about Native American life and how she saw the Native Americans being driven to extinction by "civilization".
Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Anderson
Less than one year ago, today, this horse crushed my pelvis, broke 5 ribs and punctured my lung. Yet, here I am, nursing this same horse back to health. My son and daughter keep saying, "Why? What the f....! Are you nuts?" Maybe. For me, doing nothing to any hurt creature, when I can help it, is as bad as forsaking a friend in need. Besides, a girl just can't help it!
When you find yourself a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight that yourself: go to him...