An August rerun for your reading pleasure! Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: he had no passport, typing blind, a friend went with me, winds off of Carmel, you can smell the money, true love, it was a surprise to me, Carol are you there, critter, does the door open, how do I … Continue reading The Passport
Time for a summer rerun! Enjoy! 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 natives called the avocados “alligator pears.” The big green fruit was infamous for its pebbly skin. Some claimed … Continue reading Alligator Pears
The prompt for this was to use the names of Oscar winning movies. I chose The Shape of Water In late February Marcella found a meager crop of unevenly spaced violets sprouting in the back lawn, no doubt a remnant of an older gardener’s vision. Most were the traditional deep purple, flowers intent on holding … Continue reading White Violets
As Thanksgiving approaches, I decided to share again this story from last year, a tale of abundance, gratitude, joy. Susan lost her glasses one morning, early before seven o’clock, while she was hiking along the American River Parkway. She was crossing the broad pedestrian bridge that spans the river between William Pond Park and Riverbed … Continue reading Lost and Found
I started writing this piece about my friend Craig several years ago. I thought I had lost it, but I found it again as I was purging files this summer. I was so grateful to find it! Writing this was an experiment for me, as I was attempting a Japanese form called Haibun, which combines … Continue reading Blue
Written with the prompt: one at a time please “One at a time please!” Marilyn heard a shrill, almost frantic request from a woman at the far end of the concession stand. A group of pre-teens were clustered around her, pawing at the cardboard box she held aloft. “I’ll start when you’ve formed a nice … Continue reading Play Ball
Another Summer Rerun from way back in 2019. After midnight the day-old loaves of bread in the bakery turn into slumbering cats. Some are brown and toasty, some white and fragrant, some calico dotted with black, brown and golden patches that used to be raisins, apricots, and berries. They stretch, blinking their golden eyes, then … Continue reading Bread Cats
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 familiar with some of these musicians: the Ghost Inside, Monster Magnet, Shine Down, Sleep Token, Pretty Reckless, Vole Beat, Highly Suspect, Bring Me the Horizon, … Continue reading Shine Down
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 had left it alone without a pen. Finally notebook crawled into a coffee house and eavesdropped on office clerks, legislators and students. Using coffee in … Continue reading Vibrations
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 tap, urgent, symbol of your independence, live with the itch, a crooked umbrella, the darkness shattered, he was weird We gather because it’s been fifty … Continue reading Voice of My Body
