Darcy Wiley, Author at Darcy Wiley

Ink Spill {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 2}

by Darcy Wiley | Oct 5, 2012 | Pencils & Pens, Pocket Change, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}

I push the corrugated metal gate open and walk through the narrow passage to the alley behind the university. Everywhere I walk, I’m getting whispers, hollers and ogles. I hear the word that reminds me I’m an outsider, wai guo ren. I hunch my shoulders to shrink a...

31 Days ~ Preserve Your Story

by Darcy Wiley | Oct 4, 2012 | Pencils & Pens, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}

Chances are today you’ve been scattering bits of your life’s setting and scene out for friends to read in the form of status updates and tweets. You are writing, and sharing, but soon after you do, the pieces slip to the bottom of the newsfeed, like scraps of dinner...

Just Two Eyes to See

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 28, 2012 | Fireflies, Fresh-Cut Flowers, Jam

I pivot the tiny screen on its hinges and almost slam it away in the ceiling of the minivan. “Don’t even ask,” I tell them, “we’re keeping our eyes on the real world today.” I’m lecturing by now, a woman with a diatribe, “There’s so much beauty around us….” A...

When I Cannot Write a Story

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 20, 2012 | Pencils & Pens

Four years back, this room smelled of acrylic and turpentine. Stained brushes fanned out in jars, bouquets of spotted color on horse hair. Canvas after canvas leaned against these walls…Summer Yellow Wheat, Reading Tree, Starbursts…all windows to...

Eat These Words {Undistracted Devotion}

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 11, 2012 | Buttons & Thread, Pocket Change, Relish

I’ve been putting off the week’s trip to the grocery…don’t want to take the kids, but too tired to go late night. One morning I go to the half-bare pantry and settle on what’s left for breakfast…carb-heavy, sugared-up CoCo Wheats. It tastes like childhood,...