As Meat Loves Salt

11/02/202311/02/2023 / Liz H-H / 7 Comments

Day 2 of FlashNano2023. Prompt word: AMORANSIA

Mary was practically perfect in every way. Men loved her. Women adored her. Young and old were drawn to her like moths to a flame. And each time she entered into a relationship with one or the other, she really tried to love them back with all her heart, and all the fullness of her lissome frame. Continue reading →

Old Habits Die Hard

11/01/202311/01/2023 / Liz H-H / 18 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: TURN. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on Six Sentence Stories

She raised her eyes and her chin just a bit, and sighed at the stack of “To-Do’s” sitting in her in-basket, and yes, it was her in-basket, because she’d assigned herself every one of those projects and it was always her turn. Continue reading →

Seasons Greetings

10/26/2023 / Liz H-H / 6 Comments

Mushrooming

Rainfall and temps drop

Puffballs are the favored crop

You are what you eat

© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2023)

Soulful Samhain to those who celebrate, and Happy Halloween to the rest o’ yez!

Shenanigans

10/14/202310/14/2024 / Liz H-H / 8 Comments

2024: Glad things have settled down a bit!

I woke up to snow this morning

Stepped out in bare feet

To fetch a pair of glasses

Blue Lucky

It was just a dream

Shenanigans

© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2023)

Happily Never After

10/10/202310/11/2023 / Liz H-H / 28 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: TEXT. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on Six Sentence Stories

The woods are not normally so still: birds whistling, squirrels crashing through piles of autumnal brush, foxes barking and screaming, the peel and crunch of deer stripping tree bark, their gyrating jaws masticating what food they can find in these sere times; all has been silenced. Continue reading →