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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College Daze

02/11/202502/12/2025 / Liz H-H / 20 Comments

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

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Should she mention, or just keep it to herself? Continue reading →

Hyde and Seek

02/05/2025 / Liz H-H / 13 Comments

Suzette knocked cautiously on the closed door of Henry’s laboratory over the garage, which before had been her own writer’s space, calling cheerily, “Dr. Jekyl, where are you Hyding?” Continue reading →

Ever Hopeful: JusJoJan, 1-Liner Wed, SSS

01/29/2025 / Liz H-H / 27 Comments

Image is of a snowy icy, bare neighborhood sidewalk.

©Linda G Hill

It’s nearly the end of January, and the Northlands here hold memories of deep snow and crippling cold temps. Instead, we have 40 degrees Fahrenheit and full-on sun. Continue reading →

Soupy Spoiler

01/22/202501/22/2025 / Liz H-H / 18 Comments

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

(If you’ve ever wondered about this aspect of Donkeyskins: what was in that soup, anyway?)

As instructed, she added the green powder to the roiling mass of liquid, then followed up with a palmful of iridescent capsules the size of her pinky nail. Continue reading →

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Six Sentence Stories

Wounds

Perfect Spelling Be

Be Kind, Rewind

College Daze

Hyde and Seek

Ever Hopeful: JusJoJan, 1-Liner Wed, SSS

Soupy Spoiler