Links and Summaries for My Online Content

Essays:

• Sometimes There is no Right Way – Tiny Budhha: 
• This essay ponders the concept of “The Right Way”, how my upbringing affected my perceptions of right and wrong, and how, through practicing at presence and compassion, I am learning to see and shift those patterns – and how doing so may have saved my oldest friendship.

• To Blog or Not to Blog? – Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette:
• Musings on becoming a blogger; beginning just weeks after the death of our newcorn son, as a type of personal therapy.  There followed by a six year absence from the world of blogging,  and then, a return to it, at a far more joyous stage of life –  the beginning of our unschooling journey.

• Guest Post — Shan Jeniah on Kinship - Elizabeth Anne Mitchell:
• Reflections on kinship, and family, and how one does not necessarily guarantee the other; and what kinship means to me.

• #NaNoWriMo Interview:  Shan Jeniah Burton –  Donna McNicol’s My Write Spot
• An interview regarding how I approach  National Novel Writing Month.

Poetry:

• 4AM Call -  Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette:
• Loosely fictional biographical flash poem, about a life-shifting event, originally written for The Trifextra Weekend Challenge - to write a 33 word poem, beginning with the words, “The phone rang at 4am…”.

Erotic Poetry:

• Love Speaks - Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette:
• Autobigraphical erotic flash poem; reader discretion advised.

Related articles

• Notes From The Flash Fiction Underground (June 8, 2012) (pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com)
• Poetry: Love Speaks by Shan Jeniah Burton (pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com)
• To Blog Or Not To Blog…by Shan Jeniah Burton (pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com)
• “The Huntress in Moonlight” – Flash Fantasy (shanjeniah.com)
• “Watersdeep’s Edge” – A Storyteller’s Writing Challenge (shanjeniah.com)