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 […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Back before we had scientists and telescopes in space, all we knew for sure was that sometimes – and you never knew when – evening, that magical time of darkness, would come unexpectedly. A hush falls on the land, animals become restless, crickets chirp. Is this evening or morning now? […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Coming Home Azure fantasies, all I had from within steel-barred walls. Memories of you like a butterfly flittering in for a moment, gone. We both agreed that I needed to do this, to do what I could. And now, The work is done. You’re waiting beneath buzzing, fluorescent lights, no […]
“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 […]
I still believe in miracles, you said, your final words to me on my death bed. Now that I’ve joined the great cloud of witnesses, now that I’m watching you from heaven, I wish you will. You can’t have rainbows without rain, but storms pass. This too shall pass, my love. At the end of […]
Title: True Love I’ve finally figured out what true love is. It’s opening up the refrigerator door at work and finding a wrapped sandwich with your name on it. At first, you’re mad. Whoever stole your sandwich yesterday decided to rewrap it and put it back? Then, you open it and find a fresh sandwich, […]
“What is it really like in there?” people still ask, years later. Quarantine forced hundreds of us to stay for decades in The Hidden Library. Years passed, while the deadly book-wyrm raged outside. Magic archways lead to the Library of Alexandria, to safely replicated surfaces of distant stars, to all of the places and times someone […]
My parents split up when I was five. I went to live with my mom, who lovingly cared for me – well, the nanny she hired cared for me. It would be years before I would ask myself why I looked forward to summer vacation so much. (Dad only got me for vacation.) He would […]
Anne Higa 