PHOTO PROMPT©Dale Rogerson Almost Like Home I creep from the unruly lot just before dawn and return just past dusk. I’ve been squatting in the space that’s been boarded-up and taped-off since my pal, Minnie, got strangled in there a few years back. I make sure not to disturb the greenery as I come and…
Category: Friday Fictioneers
#FF — Mom Talk
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields “You chose your home well, in dappled shade, where food loves to rest from scorching sun,” said Miss Dragonfly. “Indeed. Spring was summer and summer is something beyond, heat-wise. Exposed would have meant death for my family,” said Miss Spider. “We may need to add a season,” said Miss Dragonfly….
#FF — HAL’s Progeny
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox (aka me) HAL’s Progeny I am a world builder; a digital artist. Armies march in the distance to my touch in films and immersive video games. Companies wait years to hire me. My four-sided glass studio rests on a mountaintop looking over a green-carpeted valley; I reign in my worlds….
#FF — Servant
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Servant I was once grains of silica blanketing shores and lakebeds, a servant to feet, fins, and flora. You capture me unaware. Screened under your watchful eyes, I finally meet your demanding requirements. Crucibled with soda and lime, you stoke my passion with seventeen-hundred-degree Celcius flames until I’m an amorphous…
#FF — Car Five
PHOTO PROMPT © Mr. Binks Car Five Marty saw the “help wanted” sign on the fence on Friday afternoon. By Friday night, he was wearing a red-striped vest worn by employees of Bing’s Carnival and operating the Octopus. After a week of loading and unloading patrons and watching the arms of the beast dip and…
#FF — The Secret Ingredient
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields The Secret Ingredient My tastes are very particular. He has to be part Viking and part Mr. Rogers, part Sisyphus and part Quixote, part God and part earthworm, part wizard and part toad. I am each suitors’ Excalibur as they approach my stone heart and attempt to draw positive regard…
#FF — Sanctuary
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Sanctuary Laurel doesn’t get the geometry of religion, only that most of them have females drawing the short stick; and those different, between-genders draw matchsticks that want to burn them at the stake. As she’s a spiritual person seeking sacred community, she decides to do online research to see if…
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