Author: Jan Sikes

Jan Sikes writes compelling award-winning stories from the heart. She has been called a wordsmith by her peers, is an active blogger, grandmother, a fan of Texas music, and resides in North Texas.
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Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 119 “Mystery & Attract,” #SynonymsOnly

I've watched from the sidelines for some time as Colleen Cheseboro issues a weekly poetry challenge. This week I decided to try my hand at Haiku - a form of Japanese poetry that consists of 3 lines with a 5/7/5 syllable count. HERE’S THE CATCH: You can’t use the prompt words! SYNONYMS ONLY!  The prompt is MYSTERY …

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Why do we do it?

The Author's Guild has just published their 2018 Author's Income Survey. The largest survey of writing-related earnings by American authors finds incomes falling to historic lows to a median of $6,080 in 2017, down 42 percent from 2009. For more on this survey, you can click this link: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/authors-guild-survey-shows-drastic-42-percent-decline-in-authors-earnings-in-last-decade/ Hmmm. That doesn't bode well for us …

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Hard Times – Part 3

When we left Ella and her three children, a kindly neighbor had driven them to the doctor's office. Charlie, the baby, had eaten glass and was bleeding. Let's join them in the doctor's office. Ella ushered the two girls up the steps and through the wooden door ahead of her. A nurse dressed in a …

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