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How’s your COVID going?

I'm doing okay with my world. As I've heard many working writers say, for us, things haven't changed much. I enjoy the birds chirping as I drink my morning coffee, have a quick walk on country roads and then go to my home computer and try to be creative. Same old same old. I will…Read more How’s your COVID going?

The Winter of His Discontent

It’s time for another Friday Fictioneers entry. The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information and join the fun! PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson She’d arrived early to get their old corner table.…Read more The Winter of His Discontent

Family Secrets

It’s time for another Friday Fictioneers entry. The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. PHOTO PROMPT © C.E.Ayr It was time to repair the house her parents had left to them. Camille…Read more Family Secrets

Discipline, Schmiscipline

People in my writers group look at me funny when I tell them I warm up my muse by working on 100-word stories to picture prompts on “Friday Fictioneers”. That just doesn’t seem serious to some of them. Well, that’s the whole point – I’m playing. But I’m playing with my creative mind, preparing to…Read more Discipline, Schmiscipline

Stop, Look and Listen

Another 100-word story from a picture prompt. This picture warms my heart when I look at it. Thank you, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Strange how many of these I write in dialogue, and yet usually dialogue is the hardest thing for me to write! PHOTO PROMPT © Jeff Arnold “How long do you suppose she had this…Read more Stop, Look and Listen

Only 95 words this time!

Here's my story via this week's photo prompt from Rochelle Wisoff-Fields and Friday Fictioneers. PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll The boy craned his neck, staring upward at the outlandish sign. “Grandpa, how’d they put that car way up there?” “Probably used some kind of a crane.” “Why’d they do it?” “You’d have to ask…Read more Only 95 words this time!

Life Without Toilet Paper

After the coronavirus grabbed everyone’s attention, my first question was, “Is diarrhea a symptom of COVID 19?” No? Then WTH? Throughout history, when a pandemic struck, or war or famine, people worried about shortages of food, water, medicine, or even blankets. Here in 2020 America, we are scared shitless (pun intended) of running out of…Read more Life Without Toilet Paper

Tunnel Vision

A 100-word story from a photo prompt. Thank you Rochelle for keeping us primed. PHOTO PROMPT © Dawn Miller Your bare foot strikes a rock, and agony flashes through your tormented body. Far away across the sunlit field you’ve seen a big red barn. But it runs from you and then swims back. Is it…Read more Tunnel Vision

Queen of Crime?

with appreciation to Jane Wittingham, author & librarian Lately I've been (enjoyably) studying the women writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It seems to be very popular right now to bandy the term "Queen of Crime" about, and there are many arguments over who exactly deserves the title. What makes a Queen of…Read more Queen of Crime?

Forgive

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson (This post was inspired by Friday Fictioneers hosted by Rochelle. The challenge asks for bloggers to write a story in 100 words or less in response to the photo prompt.) I wait in the night park, winter in my soul. Begging you to speak to me again, like you did the night…Read more Forgive