FF: Escape Velocity

Caroline sits outside her house, head in her hands, wanting to cry but she can’t. Tears ran out a long time ago. Police lights flicker at the edges of her vision, hints of blood visible on her hands. Strange feet crunch on gravel, his body wrapped in plastic, dead. “He’s going to kill you one […]

FF: Plain Ketchup

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. CLICK TO JOIN “Bet you feel proud of yourself,” Rachel says to Rob, who has finally won at debate club. Becca slides into the booth and nods her grudging respect. “Guess you finally got over your pun fetish,” she tells him. Rob picks up the bottle of ketchup and sets […]

FF: Trains in Heaven

 “That answers one question.” “What is that, dear?” asks the kind-eyed, matronly woman seated closest to me. We’re cozy in comfy chairs, watching the worlds speed by outside. “I always wondered if there would be trains in heaven, to get us from place to place.” “How could there not be?” she asks. I smile, close […]

FF: You Are Seen

From the day you were born, I’ve watched you and known you. I was there for the “pink phase” and the “death metal phase” and the phase you told us wasn’t a phase, the one where you “came out” as gay. That was confusing to us because – but you like boys. You always liked […]

IWSG: Drawing the Line

My IWSG post for October, because – yowza – it is October already, isn’t it? Thanks to this month’s awesome cohosts: Jemima Pett, J Lenni Dorner, Cathrina Constantine, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, and Mary Aalgaard! October 6 question – In your writing, where do you draw the line, with either topics or language? I tend to shy away from gratuitous […]