Flats and Sharps

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 sand beach littered with broken sea shells as sharp and painful as shards of glass.  She is headed toward a granite mountain, its slope as … Continue reading Flats and Sharps

Stolen Conversation

Written with the prompts:  conversation stealer, I am I am, the story of your name, the name of a bar in New Orleans, the brother stared out the window, new ways to harvest, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo (palindrome), naps Ruby the Hummingbird was a conversation stealer.  It was her habit to fly through … Continue reading Stolen Conversation