PHOTO PROMPT © Miles Rost Vert prided herself on growing enough fruits and vegetables to sustain her family year-round. She used only organic cultivation methods: deploying companion plantings, diatomaceous earth, ladybugs, and sprays from bottles with neem oil, cayenne pepper, and water to deter even the most persistent pest. Yet none of it deterred the…
Category: fiction
#FF — Red Reign
PHOTO PROMPT © Na’ama Yehuda Red Reign Rain clouds convened on the cursed setting like PCB-laced icing on a hemlock cake. To many NYC’s Lady Liberty was an icon of salvation; to the rest it was an itching reminder of hypocrisy. Downing and Delta loaded their backpacks with climbing gear, paintball guns, and red paint…
#FF — Si Lom Road
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot They’d met at the Annual International Bingo Conference last year, when it was in his home town. He’d been captivated by the number of cards she could play at one time and by her dobbing skills. She’d liked his smile and his thoughtfulness. They’d learned they also shared a love…
dVerse — Prosery — Mother’s Embrace
taken by my older son on 050921 “Only mouths are we. Who sings the distant heart which safely exists in the center of all things? – from Rainer Maria Rilke, “Heartbeat.” “Clear!” It’s the last thing I hear before everything goes blank. I don’t know how much time has passed, but I’m conscious again; yet…
#FF — A Different Sun
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz She’d met someone; started looking after walking in on Jack with Harold. All these years she’d blamed herself for not being attractive enough, accommodating enough, adventurous enough. It was time to feel warm strong arms around her that wanted her. Jack was more than generous as they split up the…
#FF — Lost Respite
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson For twenty-plus years, they’d lived each weekend at the cabin from spring to fall. Social distancing forgotten, they kayaked Duckweed Lake by day and listened to loons calling at dusk from the patio. Mid-October they winterized the place before heading back to Greenville for winter’s prison. It’s April; time to…
#FF — The Queen’s Call
PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart The tumor can no longer be ignored. Queen Amanita pulses out via Mycelium Highway, OM-ing: Another Stupid Human Alert! Help! Chitin jurisdictions call kibbutzes. Within an hour, the Oysters, who are well-known altruists, bzz back that they will step up, even though they know it means their disconnect from the…
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