PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook CLICK TO JOIN How Easter Really Started Genre: Fan fiction/crossover Unlike my more notorious sister, I was always a well-behaved TARDIS. Then, one day, a white rabbit appeared outside my door, saying he was late and the queen would kill him. He wanted more time, ergo a time machine. I decided […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Nancy Richy CLICK TO JOIN THE FUN In between heaven and earth, Susannah pauses to dream with her eyes open. It’s a cold Memphis morning, the chill reaching beneath her thin black jacket. Once upon a time, she would have been born a slave. Now she has career options. These days, she […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast CLICK TO JOIN I turn down the music in my 2022 Ford pickup and wait for my boss to answer the call, which she does right away. “What is it this time?” she asks. “Flat tire?” “Does it matter?” I ask, watching the geese cross the road in front of […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields COME ON IN, THE WATER’S FINE Like lightning hits water, memories of you leave me tranquil as death. “How are you doing?” Somewhere between just fine and falling to pieces. Waiting in line, another childless cat lady with a coupon: buy one, get one free. I’ve loved more, lost more […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot CLICK TO JUMP IN Hi, my name is Hope, and no, I don’t mean the human name. I’m not human. No, I’m that little spark left at the bottom after Pandora opened that horrible box, the one that released evil into the world. I’m that Hope. I can’t guarantee things […]
“It’s funny when grown adults act like spoiled children,” you once said. “It becomes not funny when they have guns.” I laughed and said, “True.” We were talking about the invasion of some faraway land. The situation had nothing to do with us. Now, I hear ignorant people calling you antifa, saying you had it […]
We knew it might come to this, the two of us in a dark alley facing off with two guys who have herded us here. “Freaking reaver lovers,” the one guy says to us. I’m calling him pimple face, because – pimples. “Do it,” Vielle says back to me. We’ve been best friends for our […]
I still believe in miracles, you said, your final words to me on my death bed. Now that I’ve joined the great cloud of witnesses, now that I’m watching you from heaven, I wish you will. You can’t have rainbows without rain, but storms pass. This too shall pass, my love. At the end of […]
It’s not easy being fabulous. Let me tell you something. Have you ever tried to walk – let alone dance like this – in six inch heels? I’ll tell you what. If you had to dance in heels, one minute for every time someone has dared to judge me, yeah – I’d like to see […]
I put my phone down slowly, at the same time you get home, just in time to watch me staring at the wall in shock and horror. “You called them, didn’t you?” You shake your head, close the door, set your keys down in the bowl on the counter and proceed to quickly put away […]
Anne Higa 