Six months ago, she’d been told to wait, and she trusted him. He was competent and he promised to return. Winter and its monotonous gray skies made the days long and the nights longer. One morning she stopped waiting. Bundling up dried rations, she and Star, the wolf dog, set out. She knew he went…
Category: fiction
#FF — Street Life
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields As seeds we’re imprisoned from the moment we’re released from our mothers’ branches. Pressed by rough fingers into prepared medium in small plastic squares, our sprouted roots escape through drainage holes to touch our kins’. As seedlings we are shifted to larger squares until mature enough to be burlap-sacked. For…
Santa’s Lap (repost from 2018) kind of prophetic!
image link Repost from 2018. This seems almost more truth than fiction in 2022. Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie and Wordle challenge for this week involves writing a story using at least 10 of the following words. Your Wordle words are: present Yuletide holiday herald Santa tree celebrate mistletoe stocking pudding elves reindeer Fifty years ago Santa was…
#FF — The Reach of Winter Solstice
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Winter solstice always reaches its fingers out, one hand into the past and one towards the future. I hear a crow’s caw and wonder from which it comes. Eddie’s scent lingers in the closet. His social media status changed back to “in a relationship.” He posts he’s spending Christmas in…
#FF — Almost Like Home
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox When we were given tours of the rooms that were available, the director proudly showed off the few who had tubs. “Just think of soaking in hot water and bubble bath when winter comes!” she gushed to my mother. The tub, nutritious meals, and the view were the biggest selling…
#TSM239 — Sir Hugh, or le Gros (long)
Chester CathedralLearn more about this magnificent structure here. “Jesus said, ‘the water that I shall give will be an inner spring always welling up for eternal life’ ”— John 4:14 Water of Life [at Chester] Cathedral Sculpture by Broadbent (1994) to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the establishment of the Benedictine Abbey on this site. …
#FF — I Remember Part 3
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Manny, our neighbor, pounded on our door. “What’s going on in there. Loretta has called the police.” Manny and Loretta had tolerated Mama’s wails during Daddy’s “corrections,” but now that a baby was involved… “You’re going to pay for this,” Daddy said, and squeezed Mama’s arm, hard. Soon, Officer Jones…
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