PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Click to Join! Satisfied with her work, Steph steps back to survey the boxes and articles of clothing stacked on the lawn. Atop the stack, a sheet of construction paper bears the words, “You can go anywhere you like, but you can’t stay here.” “That is harsh,” her friend Becca […]
This week, I’ve felt called out on multiple levels about what I choose to say and not say. James 1:26 is one of those verses that I hold up in front of myself a lot: “Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields CLICK to JOIN! In a second-floor studio apartment, a lonely guy pounds a stucco wall with his fist. “No means no. It doesn’t mean try harder.” The judge demanded he read those words aloud, part of his“out-of-the-box” sentencing. Now, he glares at an empty parking lot. One day, she’ll realize […]
Warning, this post is 10% spiritual reflection AND 90% literary criticism of a Neil Gaiman story called The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains. As such it will contain spoilers for an excellent piece of fiction. At base, the narrative works as a really good story about fitting vengeance delayed. Or … about […]
It’s September – already – and the first Wednesday in September which means ISWG Day, the day when we come together and talk about writerly stuff. September 2 (optional) question: If you could choose one author, living or dead, to be your beta partner, who would it be and why? Haha, okay universe. This is […]
Faint echoes of memoryWill illuminate even the darkest night. Ghosts of stars long dead speak to stars as yet unborn. Trust me.We got (will have gotten will one day get) this.The same new-old story:Trust-Let me fall so that youcan catchme. Hold metight, It’s true – that my starEvaporated long ago.I remainA question that lingers. In […]
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll CLICK FROGGIE TO JOIN in your eyesi seeburning coalssmoldering yearning tospring to life. what would happen if-but we can’t-but we can,we must, We will. other loves, other forms,other livesrecede into the distance. take me asI am.tongues of fire burncoals not consumed by heat,hearts pulsing to one beatyearning to befreeyou, as […]
This past week, I had a couple of interesting online conversations going on, one with a fundamentalist Christian, the other with this Roman Catholic group I’m involved with online. With the former, I found myself spending a lot of time trying to explain why I do not base my entire faith life on the Bible. […]
Divine Dance I want to snap my fingers and ribbons of creation join and part and join together. Listen. I desire to whisper to you like the cosmic background radiation that proves all is not empty, some shadowless void. Turn. I burn to spin and pull you in like fragments of dense matter Galaxies and […]
PHOTO PROMPT -Copyright-Rochelle Wisoff-Fields CLICK THE DANCING FROG TO ADD YOUR LINK I was homeless and had nothing. She had everything: a car and a house and a kind word for a stranger…. Years later, at her funeral, I break down. My feelings are a mess. In my dreams, I thought I’d see her again. […]
Anne Higa 