Writing Craft

Skaggs, Cindy. "Personal Reportage: Eyewitness to the World." Medium.com, 12 August 2020.
Skaggs, Cindy. "Writing: Beginnings and Endings." Medium.com, 5 August 2020.
Skaggs, Cindy. "Theme and Symbols as Writing Tools." Medium.com, 29 July 2020.
Skaggs, Cindy. "Genre by Any Other Name." Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog, 21 September 2018.

Short Fiction

Skaggs, Cindy. "not keeping up with the Joneses." Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction Anthology, ​Brilliant Flash Fiction, 19 October 2019.
Skaggs, Cindy. "The Red Set." Beyond Words Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1, March 2020. Reprint here.

Creative Nonfiction

• Skaggs, Cindy. "Legacy." So to Speak Feminist Journal, 2 July 2019, http://sotospeakjournal.org/legacy/.
• Skaggs, Cindy. "Check Yes or No." The New Limestone Review, 1 April 2018, http://newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu/2018/04/01/check-yes-or-no/.
• Skaggs, Cindy. "Frozen Moment." Fredericksburg Art and Literary Review, 23 December 2017, https://issuu.com/amybayne/docs/fall_flar_2017_updated/238.
• Skaggs, Cindy. "Inertia." Wanderlust Journal, 15 November 2017, https://wanderlust-journal.com/2017/11/15/inertia-by-cindy-skaggs/.
• Skaggs, Cindy. "Under Pressure." Soundings, Rainier Writers Workshop, 2016, Fall 2016, https://www.rwwsoundings.com/fall-2016-issue/under-pressure/.
• Skaggs, Cindy. "Matchbook Memory." Progenitor Arts & Literary Journal, ACC Writer's Studio, Pushcart Nominated, 2015.

This is the White Christmas of the single mom. Never as shiny as the diamond on the other mother's finger. -Legacy

Hiking 14ers, mountain peaks over 14,000 feet, is a sport in Colorado... Some work years, even decades, to climb all the 14ers in the state. These are not my people. -Inertia

I was too young to understand the pain of her loss, the uncertainty, the abject terror of raising four kids. Especially I didn’t understand the anger she swallowed and didn’t digest before she died decades later. I simply recall the fun and games of that time she remembers as the worst time of her life. -Matchbook Memory