A happy home A fuzzy nest A comfy place Where one can rest It makes me smile To know we’re there As love has perched Eternal fair Delicate yet Tough are the blooms Whose fragrance touch Each of the rooms We have no fear As when we said Forevermore Our love we pledged. Our bond…
Category: family
What do you see # 27 — Surprise
Surprise At 102 years old, the best part of her day was sitting on the warm wooden bench, in the sun, watching the wind ruffle the water’s surface and rustle through the oak and willow trees. Her sons and their wives, now in their 70’s, joined her a couple of times a week at the…
What do you see # 25 — Hippity Hoppity
Petey and Carla fell in love the first time they met in the clover patch. It was in early Spring, just as all of the winter browns started greening. Petey’s family nest was in the roots of the old cedar tree. Carla’s was under the edge of the farm’s greenhouse. As both of them were…
dVerse — taboos — three accusations
“The Circus” by Albina Felski As the oldest daughter of a mixed family of full-, half-, and step- siblings totaling 7, myself included, I often was left responsible for care taking all of them while mother and stepfather drank at the bar until it closed. The first accusation came when they took me aside and…
#FF — Plugged in
PHOTO PROMPT © Dawn Miller “What do you think, Myrna?” Myrna sat hunched on the pastel green vinyl hospital rocker next to mother’s bed, her hand resting softly on the woven cotton blanket covering her mother’s inert foot. It had been six months on the respirator, with tube feedings, and no indicators of improvement. Doctors…
#FFFC 52 — what’s important
Dotty’s stroke while cross-country skiing landed her first in an emergency room, then in a long-term rehabilitation center. She was taught how to walk, speak, feed herself, open doors, and dress herself again. Most of the time Dotty’s thoughts were clear; it was just making her body do what her thoughts were telling them to…
Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #47 — Burning a Bridge
Hen was the middle child and had sisters just a year older and a year younger, both of whom grew into great beauties by their early twenties. In order to compete with her sisters, she developed her sharp intellect into verbal riparte that could mesmerize even the most smitten away from the object of their…
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