Monthly Archives: December 2017
Warming
“Sarah, we need to talk.”
“I know,” Sarah lamented, “I know what you’re going to say.”
“We just can’t afford to keep the shop open any longer. With the winters warming, no one is buying wool hats.”
“I know. You’re right. We can’t afford this storefront any longer, but maybe we could try eCommerce. I hear that some of the Nordic regions still have a season of frosting.”
“We could try that. I’ll set up the website and settle our lease with the landlord to the end of the month.”
“Thanks Josh. I miss winter.”
“Me too, Sarah. Me too.”
~kat
100 words for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction Challenge inspired by the photo above by © Björn Rudberg.
In The Stillness
On this Solstice Eve, darkness drips through the bare branches of ancient trees. The moon hangs low, a thin crescent, barely there.
The last thoughts of the departed are etched on stone tomes; loving epitaphs, names, dates.
Can you hear them? The souls who linger here whisper in the stillness, “Remember me.”
~kat
52 words exactly for the final installment of Sacha Black’s 52 Weeks in 52 Words Writespiration flash fiction challenge. The theme: Write about the night you spent in a cemetery.
(I took the photo above during a Haunted Savannah tour a few summers ago. The air was electric and thick with souls longing for life.)
Slow Burn
it’s like a slow burn
the seething of consciousness
rousing the drowsy
~kat
A Senryu (Haiku) for Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge prompted by the words, Slow (drowsy) and Burn (seethe).
Silence – A Senryu Haiku
silence the voices
of misanthropic whiners
never satisfied
~kat
A Senryu (Haiku) for Haiku Horizons weekly challenge, prompt word, ‘silence’.
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