Fiction Friday presents A Mad House
I have been around since the late 1800s. I came out of the tail end…
Character Development – NaNoWriMo 2016 Prep
Imagine your character as a cube. The surfaces may have huge or subtle differences…
Fiction Friday presents a Nursing Home
…..Women’s Society, one of the nation’s earliest old age homes, in 1823, “that through the…
I Saw What You Did Last Spring
“How long did it take to dry her up, like that?
Fiction Friday – Poorhouse – If Walls Could Talk
The insane and infirm were given their own shelter, shared, I heard, with those who…
Fiction Friday – If Only I’d Remembered
“Everyone saw it.” The man rummaged a cloth handkerchief out of his trouser pocket…
House of Cards – Fiction Friday
A house of cards is insubstantial. A house of cards has absolutely no integrity. A…
Fiction Friday – Cell Phones and Junk Drawers
Drawers tell a lot about a person. You really want to know your neighbor’s…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – The House that Jack Built?
A picture book was found in my walls during a renovation. As the story goes,…
If Walls Could Talk – Summer Home
Did you know dust is almost entirely human skin that is shed daily? Kind of…
Carriage House – Fiction Friday
I am the carriage house that sits right next to the Story Mill House. …
Fiction Friday – They Never Saw it Coming
Little by little the grass begins to green. Bunnies play among the fawns and…
A Visit with Greg Wertz – Fiction Friday
Me…
I’m okay, isn’t it a little early for a beer?
Greg…
I haven’t a clue, you brought…
On the Table
Mid-stride, Ray Holms freezes. The world drops out from under him and an actual noise…
Pop Up Haunted House – Fiction Friday
Previous Fiction Friday Posts are at http://fiction-friday.com . Halloween Pop Up House I am a…
Sorority House – Fiction Friday
During the weeks when there are no pledges the girls do work in the community….
Ending Comments on the SpoonRiver of Houses
The walls would cry out against us a frightening thing. I was terrified. …
Welcome to a Different Kind of Fiction Friday
Welcome to Fiction Friday. This week I am going to do something a little different….
People Who Live in Glass Houses – Fiction Friday
I suppose you shouldn’t throw stones into me either. There is a certain frailty to…
Trailer House if Walls Could Talk
__ I am a trailer house, a mobile home. Not a double wide, though. I…
Third Floor Business Owner’s Chair is Missing – Fiction Friday
Ms Malloy expects them to be on time. But she always makes them wait. …
Lot’s Wife? Fiction Friday
Mr. Kendra actually leaned in and licked it. “Salt,” he said. “She is…
Brick House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
I am the brick house, stop laughing, I was built by one of the three…
Flop House – Fiction Friday
I am a flop house. The Crack House and Boarding House might argue the…
Rejection, Success and Mediocrity
I’ve said rejections are proof a writer is writing. Unless you are content with journaling…
Funeral Home – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
I’m the last stop. Not so many people are happy to be here. As clients,…
If Walls Could Talk – Half-Way to Hell
One woman expressed it in a way that made me understand.
She said, “My man loves…
Fiction Friday – Character Building and Lost Grandmas
“That’s the thing, Marcy. I don’t know where I am.”
Panic rose from Marcy’s stomach…
What is Your Shoe?
Walk into my room and come to find one of my Jordan Air Max 360s…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Schoolhouse
With two classrooms there is still a lot of repetition. Year after year the teachers…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Haunted House
What you consider a spirit or a ghost is an impression most of the time….
The Round House and it’s Ghosts
He is looking for something and he can not recall what it is. It may…
Steak House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
The most exciting thing that has happened here, keep in mind me and the I…
From a Doghouse all Empty and Sad
The first was a golden retriever. She was a beautiful dog. Brandy lived here till…
Fiction Friday Presents the Boo Radley House
I have four bodies down here. Interred one at a time. Who would want to…
Procrastinating, Dilly-dallying, Puttering
I have committed FaceBook-ary, Tweeted, researched the nature of Ravens and watched The Blacklist. …
Fiction Friday – Know your Enemy
Your Protagonist is only as well rounded as your Antagonist.
Everything you consider when building your…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Bird House
He should have picked another kind of bird to study. Maybe crows who lived behind…
Ice House – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
The oldest guy, who isn’t all that old, if you ask me, claims the regular…
Fiction Friday – Jailhouse- If Walls Could Talk
I had a guy in here who got nabbed for shoplifting. He was a hoot….
Fiction Friday – Paved with Good Intentions
I am a neglectful writer, filled with good intentions. I’ve heard the road to…
If Walls Could Talk – Haunted House?
Evil will leave when a house has no more human unrest to offer or sometimes…
Fiction Friday – Smoke House – Pork and Worms
They got hold of some old book and plan on killing a pig this year….
Ab Ale House bums a Smoke – Fiction Friday
I was a gathering place for people who socialized, not just a bar where you…
Doll House – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
It was during the measles outbreak that one of the boys got hold of some…
House of Mirrors – A Fiction Friday Post
A reflecting maze is a hall of mirrors with an adult rating.
Meth House Woes
– I sit here in dingy aloneness. The electricity, water, and heat are off. My…
A Wedding Story – Fiction Friday – All Bets are Off
From the Bride’s Side
“No, do you think she’ll have the nerve to wear white?”
“I did.”
From…
Fiction Friday – A Lighthouse
Fiction Friday – From a Lighthouse – A Spoon River Anthology of Houses. All of…
Foreclosed
The crew who built me and my sisters left here when I was done and…
Free to Good Home – Fiction Friday
Found
One baby boy. Blond over blue. In a BabyBumper car seat. If…
Fiction Friday – Stalking Part Two
Selina pressed the hard cold muzzle against the stalker’s ribs. She wished she had a…
Rear Window
Writers are eavesdroppers by nature. We are also voyueristic.
A few decades ago we had…
Fiction Friday – Cannibal Prompt
“Bitter, you say. What kind of bitter?”
More than One Way to Skin a Cat?
Did you know there is more than one way to skin a cat?
Who wants to…
the most infamous warehouse in modern history – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
the most infamous warehouse in modern history – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could…
Fiction Friday – The Last House on the Left – If Walls Could Talk
The story I have to tell is creepy. Bad. It isn’t too late to leave…
Fiction Friday – I H O P
Don’t laugh, I have the word house in my sign out front. I am…
A Good First Impression
Two men in work-a-day suits were laying in the hallway. Their blood pooled and mixed…
Fiction Friday Short Short – Eraser
The Department of Defense has perfected a new weapon, code named Eraser. Much like Facbook’s…
You Can Take the Cat out of the House .. If these wall could talk..
Sure, towards the end we had to hide behind a massage therapy business, but still,…
A Boathouse – If these Walls Could Talk
7 Boathouse I spent my life on the shore of a lake. I had no…
Fiction Friday Firehouse
Firemen have been romanticized over time. Did I mention the calendars with the well muscled…
That’s My Last Victim
They don’t know he’s convinced them to volunteer information no one should have. The ladies…
Habakkuk – If Walls Could Talk
Habakkuk 2:11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the…
If Walls Could Talk – Penthouse on Top of the World
I am a house in my own right but like I said, I am better….
Fiction Friday – Free to Good Home
One healthy baby boy. Blond over Blue. Needs food, clothing and shelter.
Fiction Friday – Crack House
Sometimes a lower form would come in, these kind used heroine a whole different kind…
Court House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
He said very clearly that if he couldn’t have his kids, no one was going…
Fiction Friday Fiction Snippet…
“Because I know you. Because I care about you. Because I made you. There, you…
Fiction Friday – The Greenhouse
My creator came from a place with four distinct seasons. She began working on me…
Outhouse – If These Walls Could Talk – 2
2 Yes, I am an humble outhouse. I was slapped together and mounted over a…
Too Long – a Fiction Friday Short
How long is too long? Helen had been there more than a decade. “Yes sir. …
Fiction Friday – A Simple Scene
…“Always leave a note on the board.” Mark said in a tired monotone still working…
Fiction Friday – Stalking – Part One
Selina walked slowly. She took her time to make sure the guy would keep up….
Safe House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
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More Sugar, Please – Fiction Friday
Mike stood up and rested his butt on the porch railing. “Jo.” He…
Fiction Friday – Opposites – the mousey eyed woman
The mousey eyed woman turned away from the kiss. The new view was dying, brown,…
Fiction Friday – Truth is Stranger – Mining your Newspaper
But, really, the point of this isn’t just about putting newspapers to work solving mysteries…
Fiction Friday Second Person
This writer took a huge chance on me, the reader, by taking me far far…
Free to Good Home – Day One – Fiction Friday
#27
“Did you place the ad?”
“Yes, I did.”
“Really, blond over blue? It sounds like you’re…
If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday – I am Not a Shambles
There seems to be a taboo on how a slaughter house is run. The conflict…
The Time Walk-Back
He picks up a character five minutes before the story opens. Then one hour before,…
Where Does Time Go? A Confession (Fiction Friday)
You think you are approaching the Space Time equivalent of the Big Bang and the…
Tea House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
There are more teas than any one person can consume in a lifetime. There are…
Fiction Friday – It’s Not Me
Seriously! How long can one middle aged, overweight, lying, drinking idiot manage to stay alive?
I…
Fiction Friday – The Lake House
Everyone brings baggage. The disagreements usually occur in my upper reaches where not everyone…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Tree House
I began as some scrap board nailed together with big nails. I was a flimsy…
If Walls Could Talk – Gingerbread Big Box Store
The class decided to put all of us gingerbread buildings and houses together on two…
Home Sweet Home – If Walls Could Talk
… By this time I began to take my cozyness to heart. I was becoming….
Silence – Fiction Friday
It is the couple
Joined together at their first date place signing the divorce papers.
Blazing Houseboat – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
That was when Captain Green Sleeves began chasing the sea bird.
Around the corner the bird…
Fiction Friday – Untitled
“Now that it’s closer, I see what you mean. There’s blue and white under…
Hello World – Sally is in the Building!
No one would believe the stranger than fiction story behind my quiet spell. Let’s just…
Fiction Friday – Dysfunctional Office Scene
This week I have a scene with Greg, an easygoing office manager and his employee,…
Silence – A Fiction Friday Post
“We ain’t never gonna get out and you know it. And some day he’s gonna…
What is a Submission Packet and Why Do I Need One?
What is a Submission Packet and Why Do you Need One?
You have your novel written,…
An Old Wooden Playhouse
The little ones had to be able to tie their shoes and write their first…
The Mill House if Walls Could Talk
With a name like the Story Mill a place like this deserves preservation and telling….
Free to Good Home – Day Two – Fiction Friday
#40
“Hello, I am calling from KSOL TV 5, I’d like to interview the person who…