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Cora’s Fireweed

02/11/201804/21/2018 / Liz H-H / 6 Comments

September’s last rays paled as velvet breezes whispered of long nights to come. Cora nestled deeper into a warm hollow at cliff’s edge, ignoring the salt sway of the fjord below.

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But the People Can’t Wait

01/15/201804/21/2018 / Liz H-H / 14 Comments

The pen is mightier than the sword, but Actions must continue the conversation.

He lay the quill down beside his Manifesto, reaching to close the cap on the near-empty inkwell. Continue reading →

It’s Too Fekkin’ Cold!

12/30/201704/21/2018 / Liz H-H / 18 Comments

The granite was rough and hot under her bare feet. She squatted by the tidal pool, peering at the life teeming beneath her. Continue reading →

A Light Breath on the Embers

12/16/201710/12/2019 / Liz H-H / 2 Comments

Meaghan drew deep on her cigarette, pinching its stub between thumb and forefinger. She could pull a Houdini and just disappear, but in this case, with this guy, she knew he deserved better. Continue reading →

Hotshot Holly (And How She Got There)

12/01/201710/12/2019 / Liz H-H / Leave a comment

Twin-bladed helicopters dumped the bright red slurry (water and fertilizer) on the manically dancing flames, then swooped through the smoky haze to the reservoir, to refill for another drop. Even with no wind, the wildfire gobbled the grassy plain, Continue reading →

Morning Blessings

11/27/201704/21/2018 / Liz H-H / 6 Comments

Wake up. Open your eyes. Or not.

Stretch from the tip of your chilly nose, through the arms and shoulders, down your back, deep into the gluteus max, into the length of your calves and out through the end of each toe. Continue reading →

Bananas/No Bananas

08/12/201704/21/2018 / Liz H-H / 1 Comment

They leaned over the kitchen table, matching bookends on either side of volumes of generations. NPR broadcasters mumbled background from the kitchen counter. Continue reading →

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