PHOTO PROMPT © A member of the Fields Family. Our Lady of the Angels had served the Catholics of northwest Springfield for 50 years (a long time in American) when the bishop suddenly decided to close the underperforming parish. Regina, who had gone there for 50 years, prayed for divine intervention. She was honestly surprised […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Delicate as a spider-web sparkling with morning dew, the mood in the room could break at any time. A mandated reporter sits opposite a young girl, the two of them alone in a world of sanitized surfaces, medical cheat-sheets, and rambunctious cartoon animals. After a moment of silence, the woman […]
PHOTO PROMPT c, Dale Rogerson Float Like a Butterfly You should have seen her dancing on the ice, should have seen her dangling like the final icycle of approaching spring As she completed the third and final revolution before landing with a perfectly defiant swish, As she continued, to dance, to defy gravity and pain. […]
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 […]
Anne Higa 