Veronica Coldiron
Bio
I'm a mild-mannered project accountant by day, a free-spirited writer, artist, singer/songwriter the rest of the time. Let's subscribe to each other! I'm excited to be in a community of writers and I'm looking forward to making friends!
Stories (98/0)
Daemon Chakra
Merilee tipped bare toes out of her silver camper, pausing for a minute to shake her blonde curls loose from the night of tangled dreams. Lighting on the metal steps that led to the cool morning grass, sparkling baubles tinkled lightly on the layers of her orange skirt as she stretched and breathed in the morning air.
By Veronica Coldiron6 months ago in Horror
Labor Day - An Origin Story
Labor Day is a great way to get a three-day weekend. It's an American holiday celebrating the social and economic achievements of American workers so what's not to love? Oh the barbecues, the sunny afternoons, and the fireworks! Having said that, the truth is, Labor Day was given to laborers during a strike that was likely to shut down the railroad. It had its humble beginnings as a Civil Rights movement, one that many have forgotten about.
By Veronica Coldiron7 months ago in History
Disorderly Conduct
When I reached the fourth grade, I found myself in Georgia in an inner-city school. As the only "white girl" there, except for my cousin who was in kindergarten, my school life was difficult at best. I'd get up in the morning, work the farm, then get dressed for school. I walked down the dirt road to the bus stop and spent the next 7 hours defending myself. Life was just hard. My parents had recently split and it landed us in poverty-ville USA, on a piece of ground my mother's family endearingly called a farm, even though we barely grew anything more than dirt and misery.
By Veronica Coldiron7 months ago in Writers
- Top Story - August 2023
Jurassic Park
Stephen Spielberg's 1993 Jurassic Park took move-goers on a prehistoric thrill ride. In classic Spielberg fashion, special effects, realistic creatures and terrifying action didn't disappoint. Intriguing plot twists kept us on edge, but a-typical writing made it a well-funded creature feature that's still a "must-see" for audiences of all ages.
By Veronica Coldiron7 months ago in Critique
The Sand Pit
I can’t possibly write about my life without mentioning the sand pit. Across the white sandy road I grew up on, there was a vast field of weeds we called the "Great Waste". Tall clusters of yellow and green weeds swayed in the summer sun for as far as the eye could see. On the other side was another road; one with sparkling beach-white sand, leading down to a sand pit.
By Veronica Coldiron7 months ago in Chapters
That Girl in Your Mirror
Calvin Coolidge said: "The world is full of unsuccessful people with talent." I'm sure that's why my mother kept us grounded in reality, which for us, was poverty. Mom fostered a love of fairytales when I was small, but that shifted when she divorced dad, moving us to Georgia. My grandfather passed the year before, leaving my grandmother alone, so we found ourselves working a dirt farm.
By Veronica Coldiron7 months ago in BookClub
Exodus from Podunk
I remember my Mama packing us up from my dad’s place in Fort Wayne, for a trip to a place called Clifty Falls over in Jefferson County, Indiana. We were ultimately headed for Augusta, Georgia to stay with my grandmother, but mom opted for a detour. Clifty Falls was a place to hike, enjoy the scenery and to be in nature. Mama felt that being outside would be good for us, since we didn’t look like we felt well when she picked us up.
By Veronica Coldiron8 months ago in Families
Real. Growth. Potential.
Small or mid-sized business owners often find themselves faced with daily “melt-down” levels of stress. We look at employees who don’t want to work but expect to get paid, financials that either don’t work or aren’t making sense, and operational issues that we can’t even understand having happened.
By Veronica Coldiron8 months ago in Trader