image by: JOHN TOWNER @unsplash Log of events as captured by implant recorder’s stream of consciousness by subject #A463992 on July 31, 2070AD: July 31st is the day it was broadcast across planet Earth that the extraterrestrial invasion was imminent. I was on my bicycle on a favorite country road, riding the snaking road through…
Category: fiction
#FFFC — A Warrior and a Gentleman
One of the perks of being in the Samurai cavalry was when not out serving their Shoguns, they could visit the pleasure bathhouses and partake of hot water and being scrubbed with crystalized lotus blossoms before making a choice of a lady for the evening. Most of the soldiers were not interested in small talk,…
What do you see? # 5 — Evening Snack
Island perspective, by Chloe Smith Mindy had been lost in the enchanted forest for hours. Footpaths seemed to go in circles. On the edge of her hearing was what almost sounded like laughter. As the sun reached its zenith then began its western descent, a gnawing hunger tore at Mindy’s gut. She needed to rest…
#MM Saturday Mix — Forevermore
image link It was the twelfth of January, the day of each month that I went to visit him. There was no obligation on my part to do so and a million reasons why not. Month after month, year after year, I made the two-hour sojourn. Brewing enough coffee to fill my large traveler’s cup…
#MM Tale Weaver 250 — The Fisher King
When I think of cup my first thought is The Holy Grail. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary describes it as, “The Holy Grail is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Different traditions describe it as a cup, dish or stone with miraculous powers that provide happiness, eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance,…
Thursday Inspiration 31 — Grey Day
It was a miserable December morning in Michigan. The meteorologist predicted 40’s degrees F and sunny last night, but it was 30 degrees and grey skies. Even the clouds were grey, probably with cached snow. Usually I would put the pillow over my head and go back to sleep in disappointment; not today. Today I…
#FF — Adventures in OMB
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll Horatio Maurice Peabody worked out of a cubbyhole at Michigan’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB.) Mr. Peabody’s desk had three monitors, one ten-key adding machine, three legal pads, and a Yahtzee cup of pens and pencils on it. His job was to analyze where too little money was…
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