PHOTO PROMPT © A member of the Fields Family. Our Lady of the Angels had served the Catholics of northwest Springfield for 50 years (a long time in American) when the bishop suddenly decided to close the underperforming parish. Regina, who had gone there for 50 years, prayed for divine intervention. She was honestly surprised […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Delicate as a spider-web sparkling with morning dew, the mood in the room could break at any time. A mandated reporter sits opposite a young girl, the two of them alone in a world of sanitized surfaces, medical cheat-sheets, and rambunctious cartoon animals. After a moment of silence, the woman […]
PHOTO PROMPT c, Dale Rogerson Float Like a Butterfly You should have seen her dancing on the ice, should have seen her dangling like the final icycle of approaching spring As she completed the third and final revolution before landing with a perfectly defiant swish, As she continued, to dance, to defy gravity and pain. […]
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 […]
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