Every Picture Tells a Story (Don’ it?)
Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 03/07/2025). No more than 250 words in length.
Well they had to put an extra stone curb on top of the regular cement one, yes? This was Malcolm’s domain; it wouldn’t do to upset the cat. Because once upon a time…
Continue readingWounds
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)
Continue readingRetreat
Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 02/28/2025). No more than 250 words in length.
He’d become withdrawn since the incident, built a wall, not too fierce, not too tall, but imposing enough to keep most others out. And with Leon the Chameleon guarding the door, he was able to continue life as he now knew it.
Continue readingPerfect Spelling Be
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.
A Fairy Tale
When the rains passed, and evening was well on its way (though the sun still burned white-hot in the firmament), Little Blue lifted her head from under the scrap of newsprint and sighed.
Continue readingBe Kind, Rewind
(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.
Valley 