by Charli Mills | Apr 16, 2024 | Z-Uncategorized Carrot Sticks
Hey Carrot Ranchers! While the relocation of CarrotRanch.com was successful, it’s become more of a muddy mess than I anticipated. First, I had to focus on the issues caused by redirecting the domain DNS. Then I had to troubleshoot problems within the dashboard,...
by Charli Mills | Apr 9, 2024 | Flash Fiction Collections
Driving back from Wisconsin on Eclipse Day provided a corridor of spring images — male birds in full strut. One tom turkey swaggered along the northbound highway in full-fanned plumage. Sixty miles later, another tom stepped out of the woods fully strutting. A...
by Charli Mills | Apr 4, 2024 | Flash Fiction Collections
Welcome to Carrot Ranch Literary Community where creative writers from around the world and across genres gather to write 99-word stories. A collection of prompted 99-word stories reads like literary anthropology. Diverse perspectives become part of a collaboration....
by Charli Mills | Apr 1, 2024 | Flash Fiction Challenge
In a flash! Welcome to the great unknown, where we will explore the possibilities of what happens in a flash. What is happening and who is involved? Let the prompt tickle your synapses. And, in a flash, she upended her website. It’s downright fugly. It...
by Charli Mills | Mar 14, 2024 | Flash Fiction Collections
Welcome to Carrot Ranch Literary Community where creative writers from around the world and across genres gather to write 99-word stories. A collection of prompted 99-word stories reads like literary anthropology. Diverse perspectives become part of a collaboration....
by Charli Mills | Mar 12, 2024 | Flash Fiction Challenge
Red runs the Maasto Hito Trails beyond Roberts Street on the Keweenaw Peninsula. He finally gets to be a dog! I’m not far behind, ready to whistle should he dip out of my sight. The Winter That Wasn’t exposes our woods without their blankets of snow....
by Charli Mills | Mar 7, 2024 | Flash Fiction Collections
Welcome to Carrot Ranch Literary Community where creative writers from around the world and across genres gather to write 99-word stories. A collection of prompted 99-word stories reads like literary anthropology. Diverse perspectives become part of a collaboration....
by Charli Mills | Mar 5, 2024 | Flash Fiction Challenge
Well, this is awkward. Carrot Ranch is moving. Don’t panic! Wait, that’s what I need to hear. Okay, I’m not panicking. You’re not panicking. The moving van is here and I don’t know where we are going. Headquarters remain at Roberts Street...
by Charli Mills | Feb 29, 2024 | Flash Fiction Collections
Welcome to Carrot Ranch Literary Community where creative writers from around the world and across genres gather to write 99-word stories. A collection of prompted 99-word stories reads like literary anthropology. Diverse perspectives become part of a collaboration....
by Charli Mills | Feb 27, 2024 | Flash Fiction Challenge
Something white bobs in the shadows a block down Roberts Street. It’s February, and not unusual for snowshoe hares to explore the areas between human houses. What is unusual is how their white coats illuminate rather than camouflage their activities. The...
