Snow Globe Life Looking out at you, I know you don’t see me, and that’s fine. My smile never ends, my feet forever frozen mid-twirl on the faux-ice in a make-believe rink. Long ago, months ago, you last shook my world, raining tiny grains of white. When you first got me, I was the shiny […]
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Love You Less I arrive home early from work to find candles burning, romantic music, rose petals strewn across our hardwood floor. What? You were never this romantic. The sounds draw me to our bedroom, to you half-dressed with my best friend. “Loves me not, I guess.” You look up from kisses, drowsy with […]
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PHOTO PROMPT © JS Brand get the InLinkz code The Love Boats When we first met, it was love at first sight. You were well-built and strong, sturdy steel sides carving a path through water. My gleaming white surfaces glistened in the sun as I glided past. We said we’d go slow. No promises. No […]
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PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Hollowed Out When I woke the first time, I lay on a cold stone slab, incense and smoke thick in the air. Robed figures stood in a circle chanting. Then, nothingness. Then, a room with sun-colored walls, a single person in a robe, her hood thrown back to reveal pale […]
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll They Came From the Trees! When the alien invasion happened, it took a long time. Really long. Thousands of years long. By the time human beings noticed something strange, it took several more years for scientists to figure out that the sentient clouds weren’t just pollen or some new […]
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