Tide's Gone Out

Tide's Gone Out is a picture prompt. The picture and story are of a guy sitting on a beach watching the sunset. The story is in the form of a response to some unknown character's unknown question.

Encountering Infinity

Encountering Infinity is a story about a very small group of pre-historic hunters who have embarked on an epic journey to explore their world. The point is simple: experience life.

Moon Over Wanda

Moon Over Wanda is a flash fiction about a character walking the beaches of Wanda (suburb of Sydney).

Hidden Moments

You never know what you are going to find in someone's junk drawer, I guess. Dad had misplaced his reading glasses—as an avid reader, this was a major catastrophe for him— and so I had come over to help search his apartment. It wasn't a big place, so I figured it couldn't take all that long.

I texted Sally and told her I might be a little late picking her up, but not to worry. The trip to the retirement community was another stop, roll, stop brain-cell-killing masochist's thrill ride through heavy traffic, just like any other day. When I finally got to dad's, I let myself in.

Old Dusty Desk

Old Dusty Desk is a story where an old man is the main character. The emotional pivot for this post is the word confusion.

Late Night Cards

Late Night Cards is another photo prompt post. Here a woman and her brother are up late playing cards at the kitchen table. The big stakes are who gets to take the trash out.

Strange Potion

Strange Potion is the latest in a series of "Strange" posts about Miss Hill's adventure (loosely following the whimsical directions of the Daily Post).

Falling

Falling is a tragedy story and comes from current events.

In our workshop we were challenged to find new angles to present stories, so the concept behind the piece was to reveal the disaster through the eyes of an observer who turns out to be an inanimate object.

The Something Series

Amelia had a 150 word short story challenge based on the saying "something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue." The challenge was to write short stories of exactly 150 words, that had nothing to do with weddings or marriage, etc. and contained various words or phases she selected. In addition to all these constraints, I chose to place a single word theme of my own in all four stories. My challenge is for you to find the word threading through all four stories.

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue

The Oasis

The Oasis is a prelude sort of short story. Will the story continue?

In the High Tower/Mystery Flowers

In the High Tower is a prompt post. The prompt was to write about naming an inanimate object.

Mystery Flowers is a follow-up post (part 2).

Stranded

Stranded is a post about the misery of modern air travel. If you are familiar with Hemispheres magazine's "Three Perfect Days in name-of-city", you'll understand the 2nd person pun.

Asking for Directions

This is reblogged from here.

"This is the last time I listen to you, sis," said the older sister.

"What are you mad at me for? This trip wasn't my idea."

"What? How is it my fault that you didn't get your letter to Santa written and mailed?" she asked. Tears formed in the corners of her eyes.

The younger sister wasn't paying attention. She just scanned the tundra, covered in snow as far as the eye could see in every direction.

Snow squeaked and scrunched under their shoes as they trudged on.

The older sister sniffled. "I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For getting us lost."

"Lost?"

"Yeah. We should've found it by now." She shook her head, sending the tassel on the red hat bobbing drunkenly. "But, I can't find Santa's North Pole."

"Oh, c'mon, Nora." She patted her big sis on the arm. "Look, all we need to do is get one of Santa's reindeer there to give us directions! It can't be that hard!"

Image linked via The Write Prompts

Strange Trio Redux

Strange Trio Redux is the third post concerning our poor confused reporter, Miss Hill.

Cliffhanger

Cliffhanger is a fun flash fiction piece about a misunderstanding. The rules set a limit of 100 words...

Holding a Shoot

Holding a Shoot is a story about taking a picture of a poor Armenian woman in the Caucasus Mountains.

Outwitted (Revised)

The original story Outwitted ended a bit abruptly. I had wanted to rework the ending and this is what I came up with. Outwitted (Revised)

The Dark Road

The Dark Road is a ghost story. The story leaves the reader in suspense.

A Post Card

A Post Card is another picture prompt piece. The picture looked to be either a fake or of a dimwit hunter who doesn't know that a bobcat is, with giant glowing eyes, just a few feet away and watching him and the dead buck. So, since the photo is sort of frightening, I decided to take it on from a comedy angle.

Stuff the Ducks

Stuff the Ducks is a piece that was supposed to be inspired by looking through the last photo you had taken and finding a stranger in the background/margin. The piece turned into a rant.