Zebra What’s black and white and red all over? That’s right: me. Note to self. Do not fall asleep where little sister can get to you. Further note to self. Two words: permanent marker. Correction, make that three words: permanent, marker, and revenge. This is my last post for the A-Z Challenge! Hope everyone […]
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 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 […]
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 © 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 […]
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 […]
get the InLinkz code The Egg Game Which came first? As a young child, Doug had this talent for obsessing over such questions. Once, he spent an entire month pestering his parents about spiders and insects and why we need them His latest obsession was the question: which came first the chicken or the egg. […]
get the InLinkz code One Last Beer Old Sal never saw a drink he didn’t like. You don’t believe me? Let me tell you something. You remember that billboard we used to have out on I-9, the one for that car dealership? People said the competition knocked it down for a lark but I know […]
This is my weekly submission for Friday Fictioneers, where once a week we write 100-word stories in response to a photo prompt. This story is inspired by the fact that in my (possibly crazy) mind the underwater shopping carts looked kind of like they could have stork legs and what if they were, what if […]
get the InLinkz code This is my submission for Friday Fictioneers, the weekly blog hop where we share flash fiction of 100 words or less. To read more stories or add your own click the blue froggy. My story is below: Not Again…. This is the third time this month that I’ve had to call […]
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