Flashback Friday-Bones

“These old bones ain't meant for working no more,” The old woman's hands were knurled, bent and broken by work and time. Yet still, she soldiered on, creating the most beautiful dream catchers I had ever seen.  I wasn’t going to stop today, I don’t have the time or the money but something called to...

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- 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- She Cried

Marie stood at her kitchen counter and cried, fat tears seared pathways down pale cheeks.  She hated crying, thankfully no one was around to see her.  What would her mother make of her now? What would she say seeing where Marie's life had taken her? Her mother and warned her against marrying Keith, she knew...

99 Word Story- The Creation of Literary Art

The battleground- an expanse of white, pure as undriven snow. An army of writers, poets, novelists, and literary artists warming up on the sidelines, glasses poised just so, fingers nimble and ready. Words and worlds, life and death, the mundane and the beautiful will come to life and die today on this page, as we...

99 Words- Jammy

“Shh, stop giggling he’ll hear you!” Samantha hissed from behind the hand clamped over her beaming grin.  “I can’t, I can’t stop picturing his face. Is it on display enough?” The two girls dared a peek around the tree they were crouched behind but the sound of a twig snapping sent them scuttling back, muffling...