Mandy pulls out delicate items—silk blouses, rayon skirts, summer weight T shirts that could shrink in the heat of the dryer. All the while yesterday’s conversation with Eric’s widow plays [...]
I’m told these prompts are all band names, but I’ve not heard of most of them! If you like this, please share it with your younger friends who may be [...]
One day my notebook leapt out of my back pack while I was searching for my keys. It lay on the sidewalk watching foot traffic and pigeons, frustrated that I [...]
Written with the prompts: mission statement, this is the voice of my body, but then I might not, worth the wait, you’ll thank me later, was I wrong, tap tap [...]
Maya wears dove gray ballet flats as she glides across a glassy smooth hardwood floor. In another country, her sister Mary is barefoot, piecing her way across a black [...]
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: four seasons, scarcity, paradoxical, starts working instantly, 3,000 miles, money, it’s a breeze, pockets of resistance, until I begin to write, [...]
When Jenna arrived at the border, she was surprised to find a guard at the gate. His jaw was square and his lips were pinched into a straight line, as [...]
Striding through the airport this morning, Destiny notes the typical presence of newspapers—Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today—held aloft by focused readers in pin-stripes and gray flannel, wing-tips [...]
The Secret to Rubber-Soled Shoes The secret to rubber-soled shoes is that they are often imbued with the ghosts of deceased dogs, dogs who were loyal and eager to serve, [...]
In a land where the river was filling with salt, and the water was creeping into the garden patch, the iguanas climbed high and the sloths slunk low, and the [...]