Author Archives: lynnhesse

  While working on a piece for the upcoming Altered Book Project performance about sisters, these thoughts bubbled to the surface. When I am gone No epitaph for me. Instead, give me a little dance in your garden With the pumpkins, spiders, and rabbits watching.   A jig on the stone steps of the church,Continue reading “My Spirit Is Dance”

Kyle Brooks & Black Cat Tips                      Pete the Cat Artist James Dean Kyle Brooks is a Lithonia artist who leaves his art around town for the public to enjoy. If you’re paying attention, it might be on a telephone pole, on a tree stump, orContinue reading “Cat Tips on Being Neighborly”

Solo Camara is a former cop from France with a dark past and now, a P.I. in Mali. He takes an ordinary missing-person case and ends up dealing with murder and corruption. The translation of French into English hasn’t diminished the poetic rhythm of the language, or the use of setting as a character. TheContinue reading “Review: White Leopard by Laurent Guillaume”

There is a weather line about halfway between my home in Stone Mountain, Georgia and  where my sister lives about 30 minutes north of Macon. It is not uncommon for rain to fall on one side of this visible line across I-75, but not on the other. However, I’ve never seen rain fall on oneContinue reading “Miraculous Random Rain”

Traveling can be tricky for me if the region or hotel doesn’t serve sweet-iced tea. Headaches ensue, and I find I am more disagreeable. Because I am not a bubbly happy gal at my best, I can in a withdrawal state present a problem for others around me. Let’s break it down. Sugar and IContinue reading “MY SWEET ICED TEA and ME”

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,” BY MOTHER GOOSE Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.   After the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference, I feel like Humpty Dumpty. Nothing has sorted out my brain. Rest,Continue reading “Humpty Dumpty Disorder”

The assembly line made the chicken a popular industry in Gainesville, Georgia and a statue was erected. Rabbittown, a former hamlet in Gainesville, still had people who remembered the importance of the raising and selling of rabbits in the past, and they proudly erected a 20-foot, BIG rabbit in 1993. BEWARE. It’s still illegal toContinue reading “The Chicken Versus The Rabbit”

Photo by Dean Hesse The female yellow garden spider has many admirable, intriguing traits: “The writing spider” makes zigzag lines in her web. –Plot twists abound She is clean. She remakes her interior web every day. –A born editor She has an additional claw to spine her intricate webs. –A secret weapon She is largerContinue reading “Met A Clever Spider: Quite a Character”

At the last minute, I’m scheduled to go on an Alternate ROOTS retreat in Arden, N.C. in the mountains with trees, one of my favorite recharge and meditation spots. I will be in a cabin with bunk beds and plastic covered dorm room mattresses. (My back will let me know it’s not happy.) My assignedContinue reading “Preparing For A Retreat”

Last weekend in South Carolina one of the more thought-provoking questions for the panel members at the Mystery in The Midlands surrounded the topic of whether the protagonist must be likeable. Underlying this question there was a presumption of the mainstream moral code of right and wrong being part of a good guy’s persona. MostContinue reading “Anti-Heroes Must Be Interesting”