Daily Archives: March 8, 2012
55 – Separation
Unraveling after the death like a rope turning into grief-torn wisps The hot tears of never-going-to-see-her-again splashing on passers by as if a funeral couldn’t possibly contain the torrent. She cried for her brother because – numb, unraveling, dieing with their mother he could not cry for himself. Grief splashes on a future that isn’t. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, […]
13 filtered words and phrases
13 Words and phrases I’m tired of seeing in the machine-generated “comments” that hit my filters: 1. Article. I don’t write articles. I write all kinds of junk – most of it fiction – and post it here. Even my “How to” things rarely qualify as articles. 2. Helpful. Yes, I manage to be that sometimes, but never on the posts this word is applied to. Really, Suzie’s House is helpful? Or a poem about vampires? Or a picture of […]
