Some days the world felt so small. After college Lara spent the next few years traveling the globe.
“Travel while you’re young, honey,” her mum told her. She never mentioned though, that she was sick.
Lara received news of her mum’s passing two continents away. That day the world felt too big.
52 Words Exactly for Sacha’s 52 Weeks 52 Words Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt….Write about what happens next as it relates to the photo above.
“Hurry up squaaaawk…hurry up Chuck!”
“What’s Murphy yapping about? …Oh my god! What happened?!”
“We’ve been robbed. They took my stereo system and my power tools!”
“Oh no! Did you call the police?”
“They’re on their way. And of course I’ve got Murphy here.”
“Murphy?”
“Yep! He’s our eye witness.”
“Wait! Do you think Murphy saw the robbers?”
“I do. When I came in he called them out by name. Chuck and…”
“Hurrying Pete. Stereo…pack the steeereeeoooo….aaack!”
“See what I mean?”
“Wow! Way to go Murph!”
“Murphy…hurry…Murphy up Chuck…Pete pack the power tools…stereoooo!”
“Brilliant! Murphy! You’re such a good boy!”
~kat
100 Words for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Friday Fictioneers Challenge inspired by this photo of a Myna bird by © DOUGLAS M. MACILROY
haunting trills
phantoms in the mist
loons at dawn
~kat
For Haiku Horizons Challenge, prompt word, Mist. Photo by StockSnap at Pixabay, digitally enhanced by K. Myrman.
no one wants to know
about that heart on your sleeve
we are all bleeding
~kat
For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, prompt words, Heart & Need (want).
Haunted
‘tis not the specter,
dead and gone, that haunts my soul,
troubling my heart…
‘tis a living love, now lost,
our past drenched in cool regret
obsessed, I’m ruined
by each moment’s ecstasy
I cannot forget
~kat
A Tanka/Senryu combination for Colleen Chesebro’s Weekly Poetry Tuesday Challenge, prompt words Ghost (Specter) and Haunt.
like mercury colliding... 