What do you see? #16 — air and sea see saws

Reflections by: Yunus Emre Uzun After the rock rolled away from the cave entrance and Jesus emerged, everyone saw him ascend to the heavens. His believers have faith that one day he will descend from heaven and take the faithful back to heaven with him. What no humans saw was later that night Jesus came…

Thursday Inspiration 42 — take me with u

Muriel grew up being taught that staying put and letting the seasons visit was the way it was meant to be. She had never been more than twenty miles from the home she was born in, and she liked it that way. There were times the summer seemed too short and the winter seemed too…

#FF — I’m YUGE!

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Tweet: Paper votes are sad. Joffrey’s “landslide victory” was effected through a nation-wide voting machine virus. The Gamerican People began rioting. Givil War II was commencing, with GAGA outnumbered 10:1 by Bernites. Joffrey consulted Par-a-Gago’s resident witch for ideas on crowd control. Tweet: Free white hoods available at every mall….

What do you see? # 15 — Mimi the Flying Kitten part 1

Mimi was born on a sunny August afternoon. Her nest was soft and silky with cornsilk and milkweed fur. She opened her kitten eyes, her whiskers twitched, and she sneezed. Mimi had never been alive before. Without a mother to explain what her wings were for, she walked everywhere. One afternoon as she drank from…

#FFFC 52 — what’s important

Dotty’s stroke while cross-country skiing landed her first in an emergency room, then in a long-term rehabilitation center. She was taught how to walk, speak, feed herself, open doors, and dress herself again. Most of the time Dotty’s thoughts were clear; it was just making her body do what her thoughts were telling them to…

#MM — Tale Weaver — blind

It took him ten years to condition her, to bend her to his will. Like a metal worker bending a straight pipe, it was a thousand small strikes to her core self until he had her trained. She learned when he raised his left eyebrow it meant be still. If he slammed the door in…

Thursday Inspiration 41 — the sounds of color

He arrived to pick her up in a white sport coat with a pink carnation. She was a devil in a blue dress. His brown eyes met her hazel eyes. Fireworks bloomed in the dusky rose sunset. He took her by the elbow and led her to his pink Cadillac, opened and closed her door…