September Prompt

The rules (if you're new):

1. Write a short story inspired by this picture.

2. The story must be 1,000 words or less.

3. I'll post them next week and throw it open to comments.

Happy writing, and I'll see you next week!

A New Project

I'm launching a new blog this winter, so I hope you'll drop by. Of course, it will help (a lot) if you like to grow tomatoes, since it's a blog about growing tomatoes in South Florida.

I'm pretty excited, though. First off, I love growing tomatoes. And second, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel will be promoting my tomato blog in the newspaper and on their website. I've been writing articles for the Sun-Sentinel for about 10 years, and I thought it was really cool of my editor to make this offer. Now I only hope something doesn't go wrong this season ...

So, without further ado:

http://floridatomatoes.blogspot.com/

My Last Line

I know I shouldn't do this, but I often can't help myself. Lots of times when I start a book, I flip to the last page and I read just the last sentence. Only the last sentence. Then I play a game with myself to guess how it gets from the first sentence to that last, usually inexplicable, sentence.

So, in honor of my own awful habit, and in honor of the rewrite that I'm just (*still*) finishing, here is the most recent last sentence of my book:

In an instant, Murph's room was engulfed in laughter and the chattering of two hundred tiny hot air balloons, each lending its own unique voice to the ocean of joyous noise.

So can anybody guess my theme?