PHOTO PROMPT © Nobbinmaug Outside the kitchen window, everything seems to slow as I pour milk into cereal. Our tuxedo cat Robbie taps my leg with his cold nose. I reach down to scratch behind his ears, as you enter the kitchen. “Breakfast for dinner again?” Two days ago, our last child left for college […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot While antiquing with friends, Susan found a small pine box with the words “Wait for the final riddle” scrawled across the top. Susan pressed the black button beneath the words. A small slip of paper, the size and texture of tickets at a carnival ride, popped out. “Why are ghosts […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Once a week we met here to kiss and to whisper, as the waves lapped gently at the shore. Now I sit beneath the creaky wooden boardwalk alone while families and couples and friends run and play and talk above. I wonder why you stopped coming, if your body will […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Rose always comes out at night, dressed in a red cloak, pale cheeks only just visible beneath her hood, carrying a basket of baked goods with her, for the brown bear that lives near their home. One night, a dwarf offers her sister Snow a seemingly honest job. Rose knows […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Close one door, open another Alice pauses to look at the empty lab, empty fridge, clean surfaces, ready for Professor Sorenson to take over on Monday. “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” her mentor once told her. Assuming her study worked, this place, this process would […]
Decision Time “We would like to offer you the position, if you are still interested.” Emilia blanks out for a second, standing in her kitchen, watching water start to boil. Time to add the spaghetti to the pot. In a second. She doesn’t quite trust her hands right now. She only applied and interviewed because […]
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 […]
