Sheepish

06/18/202406/19/2024 / Liz H-H / 19 Comments

Source: Loomis Dean

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: MOVE. Visit, comment, and write & perhaps post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. The Café is open, always welcoming. Come as you are!

“Unbelievable,” she muttered, barely suppressing the scream gathering like a Kansas twister in the very core of her belly. Continue reading →

But Then the Sky

06/16/2024 / Liz H-H / 16 Comments

A stairway of timber and dirt leads upwards through a verdant path toward a bright white light.

Stopped on the stair
Halfway here and partway there
Nature’s tunnel narrows the path
Limits the options, like algorithm’s math Continue reading →

Party of Unusual Proportion

06/08/2024 / Liz H-H / 24 Comments

A sprawling National Gallery building sits under a cloudy sky promising rain, while sparse groups of people sit on a wall outside the building, and one person strides away.

“Well, that was a trial and a half,” muttered Louisa as she stalked away from the National Gallery of Lead Glass Bottles and Rodents of Unusual Sizes. Continue reading →

It Happened One Morning

06/05/202406/08/2024 / Liz H-H / 17 Comments

City sewer grate, a woman's brown slide laying on top, abandoned

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (05/31/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

Marjorie awoke, the song in her heart matching those of the birds twittering in the sunrise. Stretching her pale, lithe arms over her tousled head, she rolled out of bed, feet fairly dancing on the wood floor of her new Uptown apartment.

Change was in the air. Continue reading →

Sanctuary

05/29/2024 / Liz H-H / 21 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: LIFT. Visit, comment, and write & perhaps post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES

The marina is silent at this hour of the morning, sunrise more a wish than anything else, the partiers in the far slips for larger boats having finally gone to sleep. Continue reading →

COVID Cough

05/28/202405/28/2024 / Liz H-H / 3 Comments

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (05/24/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

I can’t say I hadn’t been warned. Miranda had told me time and again that when dealing with this particular type of book at my stage of apprenticeship, it was critical that I read carefully, and be sure to look neither backward nor forward. It would be seen as an impertinence…as if I hadn’t cared enough to pay attention the first time. Continue reading →

Dark Light

05/23/202405/23/2024 / Liz H-H / 27 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: LIGHT. Visit, comment, and write & perhaps post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES

High atop the mountain, trees look more like shrubs, demarcating flat plats of land,
Spreading toward an as yet to be determined line
When land drops away and sky begins. Continue reading →