story Archives - 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...

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...