Gothic Survival Skills

01/05/202501/05/2025 / Liz H-H / 10 Comments

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 01/03/2025). No more than 250 words in length.

The mansion looked fine from the outside, when the sun labored to reach every shadow and warm every corner of this most recent building that no one, living or not, could remember clearly. Tourists delighted in the brush of icy chill during daylight hours, the moan and rattle from towers firmly padlocked “For safety reasons, you understand.” An outdoor boarded-up well was a sitting place of a weeping woman in a lace gown, hair covering her ivory-white face. All part of the attraction. Continue reading →

Joy in a Cold Snap: SoCSaturday

01/04/2025 / Liz H-H / 4 Comments

Woke up to subzero temps this morning, grateful that there is nothing…NOTHING…that requires me to go outside the house today. Yesterday, I returned overdue library books (a gothic horror novel by Elizabeth Hand, and a thick collection of Pablo Neruda poems), picked up a few grocery necessities, and got that teaspoon-sized dose of human interaction that’ll do me for about a week. Cuz Introvert. Continue reading →

Morning Meander

01/03/202501/04/2025 / Liz H-H / 12 Comments

Eyes closed, I meander down grassy garden paths
Banks of roses nod and sing their fragrant earth song
Petrichor retreats under rosy rising sun
Sky yawns and stretches, a shell of robin’s egg blue Continue reading →

Workplace Conundrum

01/02/202501/02/2025 / Liz H-H / 14 Comments

Find the right tool
To deal with this fool
This meeting is running too long

Boomerang comes back
To cause me more flack
I just wish to stop new hire’s song Continue reading →

The Saga of Dreamy McBean

01/02/202501/02/2025 / Liz H-H / 4 Comments

Another year of Just Jot It January. Thank you Linda & crew for inspiration!

https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/01/one-liner-wednesday-jusjojan25-the-1st-happy-new-year/

January 1, One-Liner Wednesday: “Let’s start the new year off right. Who wants a coffee?”

The Saga of Dreamy McBean

Had me a coffee
His name was McBean
Tall, dark and handsome
With a splash of some cream.

No work done this morning
Stayed up all the night
When I finish my second
I’ll be feelin’ alright.

© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2025)

Solstice: Fortune’s Path

12/20/202412/20/2024 / Liz H-H / 5 Comments

Happiest Winter Solstice. The days get longer from here on in!

Delighted and honored to be published (as alter-ego Tessa Kjeldsdottir) in Eternal Haunted Summer’s Winter Solstice e-zine (https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/)! Click on the link for full access to this issue’s poetry, short stories, and essays, and more.

Click (https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2024/fortunes-path/ ) to go directly to my short story “Fortune’s Path”, a Hansel & Gretel re-visioning, with a surprise ending.

Many thanks to Karen, Kate and Alice for beta-reading and encouragement!

New Life, New Love

12/16/202412/16/2024 / Liz H-H / 19 Comments

Outside a small touristy shop, there's a statue of a wooden cow anda park bench.

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 12/13/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

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