Shortly after arriving at the crime scene, the sheriff asked the coroner, “What do you think happened here Doc?”
“Well, Sheriff, it appears that this fellow’s right brain spontaneously exploded…”
“Is that a thing?!” the sheriff asked incredulously, as he turned, wide-eyed, in time to catch the coroner laughing hysterically.
~kat 🤣
For this week’s Three Line Tale Challenge inspired by this photo by Ricardo Viana via Unsplash.
“How much farther?”
“Just a few more steps Gran. Don’t peek!”
“Well how can I, when you’ve got me blindfolded! Honestly, what is this about?”
“You’ll see!” the two lads chimed. After Pops died they wanted to do something nice for their dear old Gran. They’d located her girlhood friend. She was waiting at the dockside restaurant.
“We’re here!!” the oldest exclaimed, while the younger removed the blindfold.
Gran squinted past their beaming faces at the woman sitting before them.
“You!!!! You old bitch!”
The boys’ hearts sank.
“God, I’ve missed you!” Gran cried as she embraced her old friend.
~kat
100 Words for Friday Fictioneers inspired by this photo by © Ted Strutz
in these trying times
immerse in things beautiful…
zen for gray matter
~kat
Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Prompt Words: brain (gray matter) & cleanse (immerse).
a can of niggling worms looms as I write
I’m obsessed, unable to ignore
the innocents who’ve drifted from our sight
fractured families, children not cared for
species, numbers dwindling, resources razed
slipping between cracks; lost forevermore
precious treasures overlooked, throngs unfazed,
our better angels quickly losing ground,
their god is greed, they lavish him with praise
~kat
Terza Rima Challenge…As you can see, Jane, the abyss sucked me in. Hoping to round this series out on a more personal melancholy note…we shall see!
like mercury colliding... 