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Be Kind, Rewind

/ 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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Little Red Tatterhood

/ Liz H-H / 15 Comments
Empty city street, except for a tree growing up in the middle of a wide red brick sidewalk. Tree has a dark vertical split near its basem with two bright red Amanita Muscaria mushrooms on either side of the split.

© Ayr/Gray

Perhaps Rose could have been more wary on her weekly walk to Granny’s apartment, but she knew the way and felt confident in her red cape and hood. How could she go wrong? It had plenty of pockets! And she had her wooden spoon to fend off any attackers.      Continue reading →

Solstice: Fortune’s Path

/ Liz H-H / 5 Comments

picture of a raven, denotes possibe magical doings

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!

 

Gated Community

/ Liz H-H / 13 Comments

Overflowing dumpsters in front of a brick wall. Letter L-O-V-E toppled and discarded

From Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr’s photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (08/05/23). No more than 250 words in length. Otherwise, let your creative flag fly!

There was a glitch in my time-story machine. The dumpsters behind the brick wall overflowed with things abandoned and unvalued. Clear that brick wall, I thought, and…

I’d dropped down the wrong rabbit hole. Continue reading →