Sanctuary

/ Liz H-H / 21 Comments

Steaming coffee mug

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: LIFT. Visit, comment, and write & perhaps post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES

The marina is silent at this hour of the morning, sunrise more a wish than anything else, the partiers in the far slips for larger boats having finally gone to sleep.            Continue reading →

COVID Cough

/ Liz H-H / 3 Comments

© Ayr/Gray

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (05/24/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

I can’t say I hadn’t been warned. Miranda had told me time and again that when dealing with this particular type of book at my stage of apprenticeship, it was critical that I read carefully, and be sure to look neither backward nor forward. It would be seen as an impertinence…as if I hadn’t cared enough to pay attention the first time.             Continue reading →

Dark Light

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Spooky Moon

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: LIGHT. Visit, comment, and write & perhaps post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES

High atop the mountain, trees look more like shrubs, demarcating flat plats of land,
Spreading toward an as yet to be determined line
When land drops away and sky begins.        Continue reading →

Emily’s Escape

/ Liz H-H / 31 Comments
Sign in French saying no unleashed pets on the beach

© Ayr/Gray

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (05/17/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

Emily knew one thing for sure: she was sick and tired of lassoing sheep in her Midwest town and pined to live on the beaches in France. She didn’t know French, or anyone in France, or anything about France except that she liked their fries, which for some reason, they called “Pomme Frites.” But the country called to her. She had to go, and had to have a job to stay.                        Continue reading →