No one’s Mona Lisa
When I was 14, I visited the Louvre. The building was bigger than I imagined. Later, I learned that it would’ve taken
200 days to see
35,000 paintings even if I were to spend
30 seconds at...
Daylight Funeral
Golden buttons sewn
On a hungry maiden’s gown
Pale as polished bones
She doesn’t make a sound
She made a deal to stay
But she breaks into a run
Toward one joyous day
Beneath the radiant sun
Her husband whispers every verse
And...
Precious Inventions
In the midst of the town, an inventor,
Old and frail, but still, reluctantly, alive;
Inventions unlike others – nearly human.
One in particular, a cute white doll,
Resembling his long lost wife,
Wipes stains noisily everyday,
Reminding him of...
Buttonwillow
It was well past nine when the last train let him off at the downtown station. Ray was the first to disembark, and as he trudged toward the staircase leading over the platforms to...
On the lizard’s rock
Summer is like a desert, wherever you are.
A vast emptiness filled with boundless potential.
All activity comes to a static nothing.
Stillness of the morning
becomes the skirring of the day
becomes the stillness of the night.
What was...
Written Voice
I’ve fallen in love with writing.
The rhythmic tapping of keys,
The faint scribbling of a pen,
The sound of an eraser taking away the mistakes that were born to become masterpieces.
It gave me a voice.
One that...
Closed doors
There was a knock on my window
On that long chilly night
Then a creak from the floorboards
Outside my door
There was a crash
And a bump
My entire body jumped as the shadows
Turned as restless as the morgue
A...
Five pieces of flash fiction perfect for fall
Flash Fiction is a short fiction story consisting of only a few hundred words. Here are a few fall-themed flash fiction pieces you are sure to enjoy:
“Then it Was Autumn Again” by Sherri Turner...