Tag: writing

  • The Barn

    PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox  I was nervous about staying with my grandparents the minute I saw their ‘barn.’ The windows were completely boarded and though the stone walls looked fairly clean-ish, nothing surrounding the barn did. This was the first time I had ever met my mother’s parents due to a fight they had…

  • As Spring Unfolds

    I always told people that Spring was my favorite season.  New life seemed to come back from the dead and it was always a guessing game of what would come back in my yard.  I loved them all, but the show didn’t help.  Spring was always a time I took for my own personal regrowth…

  • Dangerous

    “So, how do you feel about camping?  I know this great site we can go to and not have any neighbors or be bothered for the entire weekend.”  I twisted my scarf around in my hands as I waited for Scott to respond.  I desperately wanted to spend more time with Scott, but I knew…

  • The Haircut

    “You are not going to believe the haircut I just got,” I screamed into the phone.  I knew the second I sat down, something was wrong.  Sam had a wide-eyed, blank stare on her face and as I started to get up, she put bother her hands on my shoulders and shoved me back into…

  • Flicker

    The lights started to flicker the moment I walked in.  I went immediately to the fireplace and started to get everything sorted for the storm I knew was rolling in.  I knew I was lucky to get home before the worst had blown in and I prayed Ian would not get home soon.  Or at…

  • The Recliner

    I pushed my father’s recliner as far back as it could go and thought about how happy I was he was out of town for the entire week.  I would be able to use the car while he was gone, I could sit in the recliner without being kicked out and could do my homework…

  • Stampede

    The deeper we went into the forest, the more excited I got.  I knew this would be the first time I would be able to show off my new skills, but I also knew it would be the best night of sleep I would have in several weeks.  If Mitch would let me sleep.  I…

  • Whale Watching

    I wanted to confront her, I just didn’t know how.  Every time I tried to tell her how I felt, she just laughed and kept right on trucking.  How did she now know how it bothered me?  How did she not know how left out she made me feel?  “Are you really on your phone…

  • Tower of Pisa

    PHOTO PROMPT © Anne Higa  The second I took the photograph, it was the last one I would ever take. The Tower of Pisa was my intended subject, but found myself staring at the man in the black top hat. The man who had disappeared from my life twenty years before and the man who we all…

  • Tonic

    “I never told him about you.  Why would I do that?  You are nothing to me and never were.  You harassed me and made my life miserable.” I listened to the woman on the phone argue with whoever it was on the other end.  I wondered if I should try to intervene and help, but what…