Hungry (mature audiences only)

image link WARNING:  THIS MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR THOSE WITH PTSD Father Jones had been sent by the church to the far reaches of Alaska to convert the Alaskan population to Christianity. You see, Father Jones was a weak man. He’d been bounced from parish to parish for years, as his weakness of “infatuations” with…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #98 — Perspective

image link   Perspective — a prism where your eye is the light your brain waits for rainbow.     Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge.  Reena says: A favorite theme which reflects in my writing is perspective. I’m totally fascinated with the potential of this – how it creates different realities for…

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai — Fields of Flowers

image link textured color rainbow or monochrome — happy, tired bees drone * sea of white lilies sweet waves rise in warm afternoon — calls bees to swim * summer flowers, colorful and social, cluster across fields * Pollack’s ideas whispered to him from flowers – color-splashed canvas. * Ants and grasshoppers dine under colored…

Cry of the Loon

image link It was this time of year a few years ago when I decided to kayak around Emerald Lake. As I randomly explored some of the many inlets and small offshoots of the lake I heard a loon‘s call of distress nearby. Following the call, I found the pair, the brood of babies resting…

A Spark of Creativity — Bewitched

Image by Reimund Bertrams from Pixabay It all started the night Jax and I broke up. Lying in bed and crying until there were no more tears left, I decided to push past my usual fear of the dark and drive out to the lake. The water was barely rippling under a midnight blue sky…