Today’s prompt for Just Jot It January is a doozy: Antipodean. It necessitated an internet search. Turns out it’s pretty perfect for the Monday we’re having in the U.S. Continue reading
childhood
Heart Broken and Healing
Stream of consciousness as I listen to this song sent to me this morning from my son.
Sleep Token: Take me back to Eden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8h50PjQozw Continue reading
Just Jot It January Day 10: Echo
Image source: Echo by Ellen Thesleff, Finnish (1891)
Just Jot January Day 10 – Prompt: Echo from Dan. Be sure to visit his blog to read or just say hi! See what other folks have done with the prompt, or add your own! https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/10/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-10th-2025/
Unicorn
© Ayr/Gray
From Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr’s photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (12/29/23). No more than 250 words in length. Otherwise, let your creative flag fly!
Summer’s last sigh had arrived too soon. It was time to return to school and be constantly reminded that he was different. He gazed longingly over the concrete and steel shipping yard. His half-grown puppy leaned warm against his side, panting. Continue reading
Creepy Wonder Tale
Source: Incredible-Art-Gallery
The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “VERGE”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
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“That’s quite a drop,” she murmured, peering into the abyss with raised eyebrows, adding, “and I’m not sure where it all ends.” Continue reading
Happily Ever After
They could’ve gone to the right
To the tidy brown cottage in the ring of aspens.
Goat nibbling happily on the turf roof.
It had reminded them of home.
But they went left.
To the gingerbread house with the candy kitchen. Continue reading
Keepsake Exchange
Henry peered between the slats of the alleyway fence, leaf green eyes nearly popping out of their sockets in horror at what appeared to be carnage of the most brutal kind. Continue reading
Valley 