Wounds

03/05/202503/07/2025 / Liz H-H / 14 Comments

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

Wouldn’t you just like to turn back the hands?
Our palms spilling over with bounty and love only dreamt of
Unlimited care, health, comfort, inspiration for all, not some
Not what the masses have embraced:
Divisiveness, threats, ignorance
Slow violence through privation

© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)

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Perfect Spelling Be

02/26/202503/07/2025 / Liz H-H / 18 Comments

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

If at first you don’t succeed
Play a tune upon the reed.
Add an extra dash or two
Of lemon pepper, mountain dew.
If that didn’t work the way you wished
Dump it out and then…go fish.

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Be Kind, Rewind

02/19/202503/07/2025 / Liz H-H / 15 Comments

(freeform and prosy
future’s not lookin’ rosy
I struggle to rhyme)

Be Kind, Rewind

We don’t exactly know when the Great Clock stopped,
But we could’ve had a sense of the pendulum’s swing faltering,
Except that everything went digital and we lost ourselves.

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Why Not?

01/19/2025 / Liz H-H / 11 Comments

Feeling blocked and threatened? It’s right there, in our hands, the answer we used to believe in. Not big things, but small. Let it begin with me…

WHY NOT?

When we gaze ahead
Haze occludes our safe passage
You’re the magic key

Now is the moment
Open our eyes and our hearts
Time waits for no one

Just Jot January Day 19 – Prompt: WHY from Willow. Be sure to visit their blog to read or just say hi! See what other folks have done with the prompt, or add your own! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/19/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-19th-2025/

Single Syllable P

01/18/202501/18/2025 / Liz H-H / Leave a comment

I could pick up the pace, pack my portfolio with poor-to-middling products. But I’m feeling peckish, so will instead toast some bread and fill its pocks with creamy butter. Delay the puck of promise, a hockey shot to the gut that reminds me: I swore to write every day this month on these prompted challenges.

Thus reminded, I brew me more Joe, grab the blanket, and here I go…

Just Jot It January 18^th/Stream of Consciousness Saturday – PROMPT: “pack/peck/pick/pock/puck.” Use one or use ’em all for bonus points—it’s up to you! Enjoy! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/17/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2025-daily-prompt-for-jan-18th/