Cold Feet, Green Thumb

01/10/2024 / Liz H-H / 22 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences, from Denise’s one word prompt: STOCK. Visit, comment, write & post your own on Six Sentence Stories.

She leaned on her shovel and surveilled her tiny backyard plot, noting the shady spots that, come Summer, would be created by the neighbors’ overgrown deciduous trees. Continue reading →

Old Habits Die Hard

11/01/202311/01/2023 / Liz H-H / 18 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: TURN. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on Six Sentence Stories

She raised her eyes and her chin just a bit, and sighed at the stack of “To-Do’s” sitting in her in-basket, and yes, it was her in-basket, because she’d assigned herself every one of those projects and it was always her turn. Continue reading →

Shenanigans

10/14/202310/14/2023 / Liz H-H / 5 Comments

10/14/2023

I woke up to snow this morning Continue reading →

The Single Blade

09/26/2023 / Liz H-H / 21 Comments

Credit: Dreamstime.com

…Bows and trembles still,

But wind punishes, more likely to cut

Than caress and quicken the hopeful green of early months.

Pulsing chlorophyll sparking, breathing deep

The sinewy length of sultry Midsommer. Continue reading →

Time to Replant

06/20/202306/25/2023 / Liz H-H / 3 Comments

A friend’s gifted garden moss becomes dry and flat in its simple cup,

Wire butterfly perched on curved handle.

Too much time wasted, waiting.

Envision an enclosed glass world, layered:

Lake Superior red sand;

Rocks harvested from long-ago summers

(pale girlie feet wavering white under icy waters);

A sneeze of dirt, for the moss that yields tiny, white blooms;

Additional plants to be identified;

A snail or two, sweet company?

Budget store clarifies: Re-use from home.

Window well pebbles;

Superior rocks only;

Drainage moss;

Dirt from the cup;

Hollow glass block: the world.

Vision realized: on time, in budget.

Carrot Ranch Prompt (06/20/23): In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about grains of sand. Where are these grains and what importance do they hold? How many ways can you think of to use sand? Who interacts with the sand and why? Go where the prompt leads!