Writing Craft

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