Hello all, here is the next writing prompt for you all. I shall close entries on March 15th. “Can you truly understand someone whose suffering you’ve never experienced, or is empathy always a kind of fiction?” You can email your responses to roberthiraeth@gmail.com and I shall publish them.
My Prompt Reply
My response to the prompt for this week: “What value do you have that sometimes causes you problems? Has this ever led you to question whether or not you should abandon it or modify it? Why or why not?” I don’t think there is a value that I have that gets me in trouble. IContinue reading “My Prompt Reply”
Community Prompt Reply
Thank you to my subscriber “C” who has written in with their response to the prompt for this week: “What value do you have that sometimes causes you problems? Has this ever led you to question whether or not you should abandon it or modify it? Why or why not?” I find that I valueContinue reading “Community Prompt Reply”
Introduction to prompts
Hello to all of you who have found their way over to this space. Whether you are first time visitors, repeat drop ins or subscribers I am honored that you would take time out of your day to read the untethered ramblings of this dispossessed prisoner. I am launching something new here that I wouldContinue reading “Introduction to prompts”
American Movie Classics
Dear American Movie Classics, (the channel.) “Under Siege 2” is not a classic American movie. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Robert Hiraeth.
Publication
I just wanted to share that the 2024 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology is now avaliable on Amazon. https://a.co/d/dyzQOhp Included is my award winning piece “Courage” which starts on page 21. Thank you to all that have supported my writing journey so far.
What relationships have a positive impact on you?
I have been developing a deeply intimate relationship with the music of Gunship. For a while I had veered into the gloom drenched halls of Doom Metal. There I sat, head bowed to the slow drop C fuzz of heavy electric bass, each note an inevitable step towards the void through a fog of funerealContinue reading “What relationships have a positive impact on you?”
To those thinking of giving up
I spent Christmas day watching a marathon of Anthony Bourdain specials. An imperfect, broken hero of mine. He took his own life and the world is poorer for it. I don’t judge him for his final action, any more than I would judge any one person for any one action in the vast tapestry ofContinue reading “To those thinking of giving up”
Goodbyes
12-10-25., 9:20 at night… Missing you all already. Life may not be fair, but we aren’t under any obligation to help make it that way. All of my love and friendship to the Whitties that, in every conversation and every moment shared these last few months, brought light and solidarity to me in a veryContinue reading “Goodbyes”
Cartoon
What’s your favorite cartoon? Favorite cartoon? That would have to be “Home Movies”. Loren Bouchard’s early project about three kids and the films they make with the help of some strange friends and their VHS camcorder. Early appearance of H Jon Benjamin who voices Coach McGuirk, a criminally irresponsible soccer coach. It took a fewContinue reading “Cartoon”
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