Lunch Break

2 years ago I was sitting at a stoplight when a garbage truck driver slammed into my Yaris. It was… Read more Lunch Break

The Nelson Effect

Brennan scratched her short black hair. She paced the living room, cell phone in hand. Not even her fat orange… Read more The Nelson Effect

Last week I was called from my work-at-home routine into the office. The company I write for is a small… Read more Back at the Office

With all the pandemic scares and insanity in the media, I’m dying to run away to the woods. The weather… Read more 10 Reasons Camping Trips are Cooler than Other Vacations

“Show, don’t tell,” is a major writing rule, but it also applies to most aspects of life. Relationships and friendships… Read more Show the Love

I guess it’s time to look back on all we didn’t screw up and everything that somehow came through for… Read more The Teens and 2019

https://buddylitzine.com/issues/issue-5/jessica-marie-baumgartner/ The best memories make the most entertaining stories. Last summer one of the funniest people I ever met died.… Read more Cut From The Same Cloth

Fan fiction. Here we go. I don’t read it. Why? I prefer new characters, new worlds, new voices who are… Read more Circling the Same Track

Everybody talks about the “process.” Finding, appreciating, and dealing with the “process.” But what does that even mean? It means,… Read more Respect Yourself by Respecting YOUR Work