Friday Picture Show Week 39

  She loved the games they played. The chase. The hunt. She was his little red, and he, her Wolf. She could hide, but he would always find her. It would start off slow. A grope in a dark corner. A whispered word, sweet, naked and dangerous. Sometimes Tyler could make Annabelle flush as crimson […]

Thursday Threads Week 36

My friend’s husband was buried today. She’s not my friend – not really. We were classmates once. Carrie Anne was a sweet girl. Quiet. She liked nature, I remember. Always looking out of the school building windows to the landscape outside. My football buddies used to make fun of her for that. She found love […]

Fifty-Five Word Challenge Week 24

“Such a lovely boy.” The old woman clucks. A neighbor, Annie guesses. “Terrible accident.” Accident. They’ve pretended well. She wanders off and Annie raises a trembling hand into the steel casket. She loosens Jeremy’s collar and runs a finger over the hidden, angry marks embedded along his throat. She remembers the noose. And wonders why.

Tuesday Tales Week 55

Confluence “Decide.” Her lips are still wet from Mark’s kiss. He is a beacon Davis is drawn to, lungs still breathing out his breath. “If your answer is no, we walk out that door. Go have lunch. Be friends. If it’s yes, then you forget him, forget anything but me.” Davis’ pulse rushes – a […]

Five Minute Fiction Week 112

Week 112 Finalist I climbed into the back seat beside the blanket and pillows, stacked up high enough to reach the car ceiling. The whole floor was packed with Adam’s things as well, as was the  passenger seat and the trunk. Four years of memories, compressed into a Honda ambling on the side of the […]

Menage Monday Week 41

“When?” The word is spoken almost silently, on the tails of her shudder. She should know by now she shouldn’t speak at all. Her back pressed to the wall, arms stretched above her head, pale skin reflecting the bright lights of Vegas below us, I shouldn’t let her say anything, but I do. “When what?” […]

Fifty-Five Word Challenge Week 20

  It was pointless to bring the flowers. She wasn’t coming. Their rendezvous was supposed to be hours ago. Bryant left the orchids on the bench, starved of water, wilting, like his heart. They were the only thing letting Rachel know he’d been there at all when she got to their spot, twenty minutes too […]

Five Minute Fiction Week 111

The shrieking winds were dying down, the sharp lashing of rain against grass and pavement calmed. Mom looked up from the radio, a smile of relief on her tired face. “It might be safe to go outside now,” Dad said to me. “Do you want to look?” I nodded, slipping my small hand into his […]

Thursday Threads Week 31

“I wish we could stay here,” Jeannie murmured. Tom only looked down at her in reply, a dip of his chin to where she lay with her head cradled in his lip. But Jeannie wasn’t looking at him. Her eyes were trained on the halo of blue arcing over their heads, and the paper-thin clouds […]

Five Minute Fiction Week 109

Week 109 Finalist “It’s called a Koru,” I tell Melanie. Her little fingers wrap around the delicately carved bone. “Aunt Cara sent it from New Zeeland?” I chuckle at my daughter’s pronunciation, but I don’t correct her. Not today. “Yes, she did. She had this plant sent, too.” I show Melanie the fern, and then […]