PHOTO PROMPT © Kent Bonham Where are the Crayons? A distant voice on an intercom pulled me from dreams. Groggy, it took a moment to orient once I opened my eyes to pastel goldenrod walls and day-bright LEDs. Right. The surgery. I turned my head and vertigo slapped me around. Slower, silly. Brain implants ain’t…
Category: Friday Fictioneers
#FF — Winter Pastimes
PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart Winter Pastimes Winter is a time for puzzles and dreaming. Everyone knows Ginger likes puzzles, so she has a stockpile to choose from. She’s been saving “Miller’s Pond” for awhile. Its cloudy-skied gloominess isn’t what she’s looking for in mid-February. She reaches for a colorful equatorial puzzle with a green…
#FF — Faster than a speeding bullet
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Faster than a Speeding Bullet… “A round of schnapps for me and the boys!” Nicky’s stomach lurched at the smell as she poured, but it masked the stench that seemed to have soaked into the velveteen-flocked wallpaper of The Pickle. Billy was so amped that his dart tinked off of…
#FF — A Fine Woman
PHOTO PROMPT © Mr. Binks A Fine Woman Born eighty years ago, Marina was named after the family business. From the time she could walk, Marina was stacking bins. By age ten, she was cutting bait; and by fifteen, was taking trawlers out and throwing cages. At age thirty, it was Marina’s idea to invest…
#FF — Alive
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Alive It’s quiet down here, far from screeches and howls at the surface. Constant light takes some adjustment. It’s always sixty degrees, but the cement floors’ cold can work its way up your feet and ache into the long bones. Threaded power lines travel the circuit. Sometimes they hum, like…
#FF — Au Naturale
PHOTO PROMPT © Robbie Cheadle Au Naturale With so many head shops sprouting up around town, it was inevitable that one of Rose’s friends would bring edibles to their Friday night group Scrabble game. The words used that week weren’t found in the regulation dictionary. Next morning, Jill called, opening the conversation with, “The sixth,…
#FF — A Tall Tale
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox A Tall Tale Remember Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat? Few know of The Nottingham Thingamajig. Please, sit back, and I will tell the tale. Once upon a time, Nicky and Finn decided to play hooky from Nottingham Middle School. Who wanted to sit in a classroom with too little heat, too…
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