PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Flower Child Why doesn’t Ellen understand she is an introvert? Is she so inscrutable? How does Ellen expect her to survive the private home she will share with eight other residents? She’d met the husband-wife caregivers and her soon-to-be roommate last week. Why were they smiling all of the time?…
Category: fiction
#FF — Ta-da!
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Ta-da! “Honey, I have a surprise for you.” Laney notes an excitement in Jones’ voice she hasn’t heard since they’d seen a white buffalo in Montana. “Can you give me a hint?” “A teensy one. Remember you told me I’d better have something to fill the vacuum with when I…
#FF — The Wheel
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast The Wheel Rolling along green in a golf cart with boot-licking lackeys, cracking crude jokes about wives, he can’t figure out which he disdains more, weak twitterings of lackeys or how uncomfortably tight his pants are after lunch. He lets out an onion-garlic belch, feels bile erupt, as sharp pain…
#FF — Besties: Forever or Until Death
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Besties: Forever or Until Death The necklaces came onto the market quietly. Jack purchased one for Peach, his mistress. He told her to never wear it outside. And she didn’t. She did, however, invite Cherry, her best friend, and Dev’s mistress, in for tea. When Cherry saw how it gleamed…
#FF — Dream Home
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox Dream Home “Honey, I think I found it,” said Fish. “What makes you think so?” said Jeremy. “Description: ‘cozy, wood frame, lots of windows with lake view, cement driveway.’ The clinchers? prime location and the price is right,” said Fish. “Let’s take a look at it first, babe,” said Jeremy….
#FF — Invisible Shadows
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Invisible Shadows The car’s rev and the garage door’s gentle rumble tells Maurice his sister’s family is leaving for the annual feast at Maryjane’s house. He remembers Maryjane’s turtle cheesecake and starts drooling. Maurice wiggles out of the sleeping bag carefully hidden in Susie’s shed. He makes his way to…
#FF — Life Waves
PHOTO PROMPT © Peter Abbey Life Waves “Isn’t it funny how life’s waves wash over us with a certain rhythm?” Serena says to no one in particular as she reclines in her ergolounger, gazing at Lake Michigan. “It sure is,” says Pete. Serena looks behind her, where the bass voice is coming from. A tall,…
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