Who Came Up With This?

PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll get the InLinkz code Who Came Up With This? Way back so long ago people hadn’t invented calendars yet, two brothers came up with this great idea: we will fight each other, and people will pay us money to watch us. Unfortunately, they couldn’t seem to agree on who […]

Love You Less

  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 […]

Home

Home A single light blazes in the distance guiding my way, the only thing visible through the haze. The past haunts each step: explosions, screams, decisions, truths too harsh to remember or forget. Twenty feet away now, feet crunching through snow, hair frosted by harsh winds. A door swings open to reveal a shadowed face. […]

The Love Boats

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 […]

IWSG: I Heart Fantasy

Hard to believe it’s February already, but it is. That means today is IWSG Day and a week before Valentine’s Day, which makes it the perfect time for this optional question of the month. February 7 question – What do you love about the genre you write in most often? Okay, I may not write […]

Pieces

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields get the InLinkz code Pieces “You need help.” And I walked away wondering what is wrong with…me? You did help me. You’ve taught me so much. Like saying “you need help” without offering to help is actually an insult. Also, sometimes “really good people” are perfectly okay with shattering you, […]

Hollowed Out

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 […]

They Came  From the Trees

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 […]

Cracked

PHOTO PROMPT © Victor and Sarah Potter get the InLinkz code Cracked They have the picture perfect life on the surface, all smiles and sweetness. Then one day, the peace is shattered by footsteps, a tentative tapping on a door. Something cracks. A distant door opens. The homeowners slowly, carefully make their way over. You […]

IWSG: New Improved Resolutions

Happy New Year and Happy IWSG Day! Hard to believe 2018 is here. Not sure about everyone else but here in the Northeast U.S. it’s been super cold and now they’re throwing out scary words like “bomb” to describe the weather. Fortunately, I’m not on the coast but the cold has made getting out of […]