Tag: Inciting Incident

Water Baby by Amy Widmoyer Hanson

By Amy Widmoyer Hanson | FCC 2025, Fiction, Excerpt | December 19, 2025

Color image of misty waterfalls with sun above; title card for the 2025 FCC 1st place excerpt, "Water Baby" by Amy Hanson.

CHAPTER ONE — MIMI You might think I came to Africa as a humanitarian, dispensing medicine to babies so malnourished their delicate rib cages threatened to snap, rib after rib, in a glissando of tiny broken bones. You wouldn’t…

Conversations Between Friends: Dominic Lim and Ethel Rohan

By Guest Author | Interviews, Craft, Classroom | May 1, 2024

Image is the book cover for SING, I by Ethel Rohan; title card for the new interview between Dominic Lim and Ethel Rohan.

I was first introduced to Ethel Rohan’s writing at a reading sponsored by The Writers Grotto, a community of working writers in San Francisco. After hearing an excerpt from her award-winning collection of short stories, I rushed to read…