PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Don and I met two years ago, at Pinky’s, where I work. He’d come in for a massage and paid extra for the happy ending. He’s been a regular since then. After a year, Don began bringing me gifts. After two, I began to look forward to his kind smile….
Category: fiction
#FF — Untouchable
PHOTO PROMPT © Fleur Lind Lily’s dream is always the same. She walks an endless green meadow, its tall stems capped with periwinkle, butter yellow, and lipstick pink. Sweet peas and snapdragons scent the air. Her loose-fitting dress billows in warm breezes as she moves, like a cloud moving through cerulean sky. :::Bang!::: Midnight slamming…
#FF — The Sorrel
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson I’ve taken up residence in the hay next to Old Marie. She was never meant to be pregnant, but Midnight’s (the stallion’s) unlocked stall (or maybe the sly devil nosed it open hisself?) happened a year ago and here we are. Doc Jones says abortion will kill Old Marie. I…
#FF — Joe’s Crab Shack
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Situated a short block from waterfront seasonal condos, the converted fish cannery serves both tourists and locals alike. There is no mystery about the menu: crab, hushpuppies, corn-on-the-cob, and Millie’s home-made peach pie, with craft brews to wash it down with. Newbies marvel at suspended and affixed memorabilia above them….
#FF — Mariah!!!!!
PHOTO PROMPT © Brenda Cox It was just another Friday for Lu. Riding bus one-fourteen after work, he planned on getting off at Mandarin to pick up his bottle of vodka, a six-pack of ginger beer, and his favorite bento before walking two blocks to his apartment to binge-watch, “Lost.” They were stopped at the…
The Unicorn Challenge 081223 — Recycled Trash
I lit out at sixteen. By thirty I realized getting out then was what saved me from repeating the dismal life path I’d witnessed with my grandparents, parents, and now siblings. The mixture of Irish blood from my mother’s side and German blood from my father’s side, which combo I shared with only one of…
#FF — Prowess
PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas Hugh’s lair is fully equipped to impress his lovers, from the twinkle lights to the slate fireplace, from the soft Italian leather to the sequoia slab table. Hugh’s suggested hunting prowess manifests in the mounted moose skull. He meets them at networking conferences in the city, flirts until five, then…
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