Flash Fiction
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This week’s prompt at 100wcgu is …but even when I listened carefully… *** Over time and to the lucky ones, animal-friends and their humans can become acutely aware of one another’s subtleties. A curious twitch of her tail, a breathy purr a nano-octave higher, or even my teary sigh never goes undetected and unattended. One night
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This week’s prompt at Chimera 66 is the word, “tambourine.” He play in a gypsy ban’. Papaw say he ‘no damn good’ an’ fo’ me t’ steer clear. I din’t. He was a beauteous man— De blackest eyes you evuh seen! an’ when he smile, Lawd, when he smile! Dey sparkle at me like silvuh dimondz. He die— but
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This week’s word prompts at the Shapeshifting 13 Writing Challenge are olive and mirror. Check out Grammar Ghoul Press & see what else is cookin’! §§ She’d been waiting for two hours and four dirty martinis. Forget the cocktail spear; Lizette fished the olive out with her fingers. She was skillfully extracting its pimiento when
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At first, Richard seemed okay. Funny and kind and not (in)sane until the murders— here there even Mikey’s Garage. He got life w/o parole E scaped Now he lives in my attic. Richard watches me. Listen. Hear him watching? C’mon, Listen. Hear?
Ergo, the Ogre 