Watcher Doings 3

08/13/202508/13/2025 / Liz H-H / 21 Comments

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

Wreaths of coffee aroma played about her smile, tightening the contour of curls that framed the family countenance passed down from generation to generation.

No matter what continent that family resemblance landed on, the inherited ability to see and draw the uncanny followed, in midnight blue eyes, high cheekbones and a heart-shaped face, teeth a little too sharp for most humans’ comfort.

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Watcher Doings 2

08/04/202508/10/2025 / Liz H-H / 11 Comments

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

He jumped at the slap of the screen door, so sharp against the morning’s murmurings, and dropped his fae knife between the stems of thick ferns sheltering his now-habitual observation point.

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Watcher Doings

07/01/202507/02/2025 / Liz H-H / 20 Comments

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

It wasn’t often that he sat still long enough to observe anyone of their kind, but she held a certain fascination; usually the best course of action was to keep to the shadows and skedaddle if they crept too close.

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Minute Minuet

06/24/202506/25/2025 / Liz H-H / 23 Comments

His hand trembled, a bead of sweat
Rolled down his temple
Traced his jaw line
And yet
He had to try.

Lifting his head, he catches the scent
Of bergamot tea
Oranges, sun
Locked in
He cannot run.

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Ella’s Enchanted

06/19/202506/19/2025 / Liz H-H / 20 Comments

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

Devon had to admit it; Beau was a handsome lad who had all the right moves, intense green eyes, whiskers neat, and thick silky hair that Ella kept running her fingers through.

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