99- Word Story- Lost and Found

With tears in her eyes, Agatha placed the book gingerly into the trunk, her heart aching. Her grimoire had been handed down through so many generations, all the knowledge and wisdom from woman to woman, mother to mother would be lost forever but she would be burned at the stake just for looking at it. ...

99- Word Story- A Secret Shared

May 9, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about two who can keep a secret. Is the secret between them or is one keeping a secret from the other. Who are they? What remains unknown? What is revealed? Go where the prompt leads! Eyes met for the first time...

99-Word Story- Ocean Blue Sky

May 1, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about high water. Hell can be involved, or not. Is high water a new drink? A crisis in nature or the basement? Get in the flow. Go where the prompt leads! Maya smiled as she drifted along on a cloud in...

99-Word Story- Hope

I never had much hope, life beat it out of me.  Who was I to dream and wish? A worthless, nothing, scumbag begging for deaths relief.  Rejected, neglected, and alone. Until I met you, that is. Your work rough hands, put my fragile shards back together. Your patience and kindness refilled my empty soul. Your...

99 Words- His Dark Eyes

I jump, the butter knife I’m holding falls to the floor with a clatter, smearing bright red jam all over the beige tiles.  Knocking at the door sounded again, throwing my heart into my throat. Small knocks, sharp and frantic.  “Please, I just want my mummy” a pleading tone that tugs on my heartstrings despite...

99-Word Story- The old lady and the Beast

The old lady had been haunted by the beast her entire life. Ever since she took her first wobbling steps into adulthood and had fallen on her knees. That’s when the beast had first pounced. The black dog of depression had nearly broken her. But she shook him off. She spent her life evading him,...

99 Word Story- Desert Pain

This place smells funny, the air hurts my nose, the ground burns my paws as I shift and slide, trying to make it up hill. There’s no lovely grass here, no trees, no friends to make or critters to chase… I whine sadly, why am I here? Where is my furless friend? He always took...

99 Word Challenge- Impossibly blue

I try not to vomit as my world rocks on its axis, up and down I bob and spin in this ocean of grief.  Impossibly blue.  I’m drowning, desperately trying to claw breath into my body. I sink beneath the waves.  My feelings; impossibly blue. I weep, I sob, I wail at the world and...

99 Word Story- I Used To Play Here

Photo by Levi Damasceno on Pexels.com A decade has passed since small chubby hands gripped these chains I think, Idally pushing myself forwards and backwards on the creaky swing, being careful not to lose my balance and fall into the crater behind me.  I can see my house from here, or rather the space where...

99 Words- Glory to Gloria

Gloria was never demure, not by anybody's standards much to her mother’s dismay.  Since she was a young child she was what they called a go-getter much to her father’s delight. Everything she set her mind to she got. First place in craft projects, the lead in plays, she even got herself moved to the...