PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox My lineage has lived in this building since the town formed. Great-great grandfather helped Mr. Lanscombe lay the bricks, in exchange for a promise of a forever apartment for his family. Although deed-free, who could leave such an arrangement. A sesquicentennial later, I’m still here. Some say it’s a dump,…
Category: fiction
#FF — Kalua Pig
PHOTO PROMPT © Brenda Cox Regardless of how glamorous a travel destination is, there are always underbellies that noone sees or wants to know about. Hawaii, for example: all eyes feast volcanoes and too-blue water; noses breathe sea air and sweet flora; skin brushes large tropical leaves; ears listen to birds, drumbeats, and partygoers; mouths…
#FF — While you were gone…
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields This image sings that every picture has a story. Each memento, a rationale. Every cubicle is filled with paper-thin but feeling-rich associations. They are put in their proper places, one by one. They wait patiently until they are chosen in a moment for their keeper’s positive regard. Yet even the…
#FF — Monday’s Red Rose
Monday’s Red Rose It started with Monday’s red rose left on my doorstep. I smiled, wondering who my secret admirer was. On Tuesday, I arrived home and found a box of high-priced chocolate truffles, kept cool with an ice pack. One melted on my tongue as my imagination wandered again as to my admirer. Each…
#FF — Beating Bright
PHOTO PROMPT © Na’ama Yehuda April’s cloud blankets served to keep us in our caves, vicariously monitoring life through fogged panes of glass and pixelated screens. The second winter of covid had been harsh, perhaps harsher than the first, as our views focused on celebrities hurling dung at each other in courtrooms and maniacs with…
#FF — Emergency
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz It started with ringing in his ears. Then sledgehammers pounded his head as he lay down to sleep. He’d awaken at midnight, screams bouncing between his ears. Each morning he was more tired. He sipped coffee and looked out of his window at the city landscape. At first it was…
#FF — The Finder
PHOTO PROMPT © Carole Erdman-Grant Picasso’s the finder one contacts when they need the surging thrill of adding another piece to their collections. Picasso learned the biz as go-fer for Sergio Lazar. She and Lazar are now lovers. This gives her access to O’Keefe, the space truck she travels in, scouting the galaxy for treasure….
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