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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
get the InLinkz code They said there was no way you would ever get along. Too different. Too much war and fighting. Maybe they were right. As I write these words, I plan to give you each fragments, half to one and half the other. I don’t know who poisoned me or why. It does […]
get the InLinkz code “I will stand by you no matter what.” He first said those words years ago, never imagining that they could become so literal, while he leans on his wife for support. Waves crash and recede in bubbling whispers around their bare feet, well, three feet, one plaster cast with a heel. […]
This is my first time doing this, so I hope it works. This picture is taken from a Google Maps street view of Edinburgh, as part of What Pegman Saw. To enjoy stories inspired by the What Pegman Saw prompt or to submit your own 150-word story, visit the inLinkz button: The Leaf Red-veined, golden, the […]
get the InLinkz code Rose crossed the border illegally when she was still a small child, too young to remember. That’s the truth as they’ve told her, so says the immigration official with the kind but firm eyes. She wants to join the military, to serve her country and, okay, to help herself through college. […]
This is my post for this week’s Friday Fictioneers. I actually wrote two stories because somehow I found the wrong prompt (which I can’t find again) before writing the second story. The first story is the one in response to this week’s prompt. The second one is a bonus, I guess. =D Sorry. Having a […]
PHOTO PROMPT © CEAyr My weekly submission for Friday Fictioneers where every week we write 100 word stories in response to a photo prompt. For more stories and to add your own, click on the froggy! Unhappy Ending We watched with held breath as the front end loader dislodged the roots of the two-year-old oak. […]
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