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Walking with Words: The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 13
Words communicate! They are bridges between people, communities, countries. They are shapers of ideas, culture, religion, history, and all knowledge. As individuals, we think with words; talk to ourselves with words; write with words; imagine with words; and so, we walk with words.
How did words originate? As proto-humans walked upright and their brains grew pathways for speech, scientists say they began to communicate for mutual benefit and survival. Sounds and body language evolved into spoken words.
Words became art and symbols on cave walls, then glyphs that portrayed objects and actions, then alphabets that represent sounds. Sentences were fashioned and grew into paragraphs and stories; scrolls and paper eventually took the place of rock walls. Stepping from stone to paper to electronics, humans have walked a long pathway with words.
Today there are over seven thousand languages spoken in the world. There are between 500 thousand and 4 million book titles published in the United States alone every year. That’s tons of words!
On the following pages, the authors of the Writers’ Mill present our latest words in stories, poems, and essays for readers to enjoy. Contributors
M. L. Lyons
David Fryer
Jasmine Sears
Peter Letts
Karin Krafft
Lyndsay Docherty
Jean Harkin
Matthew McAyeal
Judy Beaston
Jessie Collins
Sheila Deeth
Eugenia Wentworth (editor)
Pati Burraston (editor)
Anne de Ridder (editor)
Bettina Roth (editor)
Zita Podany (formatter)
How did words originate? As proto-humans walked upright and their brains grew pathways for speech, scientists say they began to communicate for mutual benefit and survival. Sounds and body language evolved into spoken words.
Words became art and symbols on cave walls, then glyphs that portrayed objects and actions, then alphabets that represent sounds. Sentences were fashioned and grew into paragraphs and stories; scrolls and paper eventually took the place of rock walls. Stepping from stone to paper to electronics, humans have walked a long pathway with words.
Today there are over seven thousand languages spoken in the world. There are between 500 thousand and 4 million book titles published in the United States alone every year. That’s tons of words!
On the following pages, the authors of the Writers’ Mill present our latest words in stories, poems, and essays for readers to enjoy. Contributors
M. L. Lyons
David Fryer
Jasmine Sears
Peter Letts
Karin Krafft
Lyndsay Docherty
Jean Harkin
Matthew McAyeal
Judy Beaston
Jessie Collins
Sheila Deeth
Eugenia Wentworth (editor)
Pati Burraston (editor)
Anne de Ridder (editor)
Bettina Roth (editor)
Zita Podany (formatter)
125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 17, 2025
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