More than One Way to Skin a Cat?
Did you know there is more than one way to skin a cat?
Who wants to…
Fiction Friday – The Greenhouse
My creator came from a place with four distinct seasons. She began working on me…
If Walls Could Talk – Haunted House?
Evil will leave when a house has no more human unrest to offer or sometimes…
An Old Wooden Playhouse
The little ones had to be able to tie their shoes and write their first…
Fiction Friday – Truth is Stranger – Mining your Newspaper
But, really, the point of this isn’t just about putting newspapers to work solving mysteries…
What is Your Shoe?
Walk into my room and come to find one of my Jordan Air Max 360s…
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…
Silence – Fiction Friday
It is the couple
Joined together at their first date place signing the divorce papers.
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…
The Time Walk-Back
He picks up a character five minutes before the story opens. Then one hour before,…
Free to Good Home – Fiction Friday
Found
One baby boy. Blond over blue. In a BabyBumper car seat. If…
Fiction Friday – Crack House
Sometimes a lower form would come in, these kind used heroine a whole different kind…
Fiction Friday – Stalking Part Two
Selina pressed the hard cold muzzle against the stalker’s ribs. She wished she had a…
House of Cards – Fiction Friday
A house of cards is insubstantial. A house of cards has absolutely no integrity. A…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Haunted House
What you consider a spirit or a ghost is an impression most of the time….
Fiction Friday – Stalking – Part One
Selina walked slowly. She took her time to make sure the guy would keep up….
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,…
Ending Comments on the SpoonRiver of Houses
The walls would cry out against us a frightening thing. I was terrified. …
Carriage House – Fiction Friday
I am the carriage house that sits right next to the Story Mill House. …
Character Development – NaNoWriMo 2016 Prep
Imagine your character as a cube. The surfaces may have huge or subtle differences…
Fiction Friday – I H O P
Don’t laugh, I have the word house in my sign out front. I am…
Meth House Woes
– I sit here in dingy aloneness. The electricity, water, and heat are off. My…
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…
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…
A Good First Impression
Two men in work-a-day suits were laying in the hallway. Their blood pooled and mixed…
Pop Up Haunted House – Fiction Friday
Previous Fiction Friday Posts are at http://fiction-friday.com . Halloween Pop Up House I am a…
Foreclosed
The crew who built me and my sisters left here when I was done and…
Fiction Friday presents A Mad House
I have been around since the late 1800s. I came out of the tail end…
Too Long – a Fiction Friday Short
How long is too long? Helen had been there more than a decade. “Yes sir. …
Fiction Friday – Smoke House – Pork and Worms
They got hold of some old book and plan on killing a pig this year….
Fiction Friday – A Lighthouse
Fiction Friday – From a Lighthouse – A Spoon River Anthology of Houses. All of…
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…
The Mill House if Walls Could Talk
With a name like the Story Mill a place like this deserves preservation and telling….
More Sugar, Please – Fiction Friday
Mike stood up and rested his butt on the porch railing. “Jo.” He…
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 – 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 – It’s Not Me
Seriously! How long can one middle aged, overweight, lying, drinking idiot manage to stay alive?
I…
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,…
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 – They Never Saw it Coming
Little by little the grass begins to green. Bunnies play among the fawns and…
From a Doghouse all Empty and Sad
The first was a golden retriever. She was a beautiful dog. Brandy lived here till…
Fiction Friday – Poorhouse – If Walls Could Talk
The insane and infirm were given their own shelter, shared, I heard, with those who…
I Saw What You Did Last Spring
“How long did it take to dry her up, like that?
Funeral Home – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
I’m the last stop. Not so many people are happy to be here. As clients,…
Fiction Friday Presents the Boo Radley House
I have four bodies down here. Interred one at a time. Who would want to…
Fiction Friday – Character Creation
I’ve disabled some embedded links. If you were going to do something illegal, there…
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,…
Lot’s Wife? Fiction Friday
Mr. Kendra actually leaned in and licked it. “Salt,” he said. “She is…
Procrastinating, Dilly-dallying, Puttering
I have committed FaceBook-ary, Tweeted, researched the nature of Ravens and watched The Blacklist. …
Doll House – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
It was during the measles outbreak that one of the boys got hold of some…
That’s My Last Victim
They don’t know he’s convinced them to volunteer information no one should have. The ladies…
Fiction Friday – Dysfunctional Office Scene
This week I have a scene with Greg, an easygoing office manager and his employee,…
Fiction Friday – Free to Good Home
One healthy baby boy. Blond over Blue. Needs food, clothing and shelter.
Fiction Friday presents a Nursing Home
…..Women’s Society, one of the nation’s earliest old age homes, in 1823, “that through the…
Rejection, Success and Mediocrity
I’ve said rejections are proof a writer is writing. Unless you are content with journaling…
Fiction Friday Firehouse
Firemen have been romanticized over time. Did I mention the calendars with the well muscled…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Schoolhouse
With two classrooms there is still a lot of repetition. Year after year the teachers…
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…
Fiction Friday – If Only I’d Remembered
“Everyone saw it.” The man rummaged a cloth handkerchief out of his trouser pocket…
Fiction Friday – Jailhouse- If Walls Could Talk
I had a guy in here who got nabbed for shoplifting. He was a hoot….
Where Does Time Go? A Confession (Fiction Friday)
You think you are approaching the Space Time equivalent of the Big Bang and the…
Fiction Friday – Opposites – the mousey eyed woman
The mousey eyed woman turned away from the kiss. The new view was dying, brown,…
If Walls Could Talk – Summer Home
Did you know dust is almost entirely human skin that is shed daily? Kind of…
A Boathouse – If these Walls Could Talk
7 Boathouse I spent my life on the shore of a lake. I had no…
The Round House and it’s Ghosts
He is looking for something and he can not recall what it is. It may…
Welcome to a Different Kind of Fiction Friday
Welcome to Fiction Friday. This week I am going to do something a little different….
Ice House – If Walls Could Talk – Fiction Friday
The oldest guy, who isn’t all that old, if you ask me, claims the regular…
Silence – A Fiction Friday Post
“We ain’t never gonna get out and you know it. And some day he’s gonna…
Steak House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
The most exciting thing that has happened here, keep in mind me and the I…
Outhouse – If These Walls Could Talk – 2
2 Yes, I am an humble outhouse. I was slapped together and mounted over a…
Home Sweet Home – If Walls Could Talk
… By this time I began to take my cozyness to heart. I was becoming….
Trailer House if Walls Could Talk
__ I am a trailer house, a mobile home. Not a double wide, though. I…
Fiction Friday – Cell Phones and Junk Drawers
Drawers tell a lot about a person. You really want to know your neighbor’s…
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…
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Bird House
He should have picked another kind of bird to study. Maybe crows who lived behind…
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 – Half-Way to Hell
One woman expressed it in a way that made me understand.
She said, “My man loves…
Fiction Friday – A Simple Scene
…“Always leave a note on the board.” Mark said in a tired monotone still working…
Third Floor Business Owner’s Chair is Missing – Fiction Friday
Ms Malloy expects them to be on time. But she always makes them wait. …
Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk – Tree House
I began as some scrap board nailed together with big nails. I was a flimsy…
Safe House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
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Flop House – Fiction Friday
I am a flop house. The Crack House and Boarding House might argue the…
Fiction Friday Short Short – Eraser
The Department of Defense has perfected a new weapon, code named Eraser. Much like Facbook’s…
Sorority House – Fiction Friday
During the weeks when there are no pledges the girls do work in the community….
If Walls Could Talk – Gingerbread Big Box Store
The class decided to put all of us gingerbread buildings and houses together on two…
Habakkuk – If Walls Could Talk
Habakkuk 2:11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the…
Court House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
He said very clearly that if he couldn’t have his kids, no one was going…
Thank You Heather McPherson for Doing it So Well
Sometimes, someone writes something so vivid, so right or so wrong, that I want to…
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?”
House on the Borderland a Fiction Friday Release
The middle child named Alex fell head over heels in love with Tammy, the farm…
Brick House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
I am the brick house, stop laughing, I was built by one of the three…
Fiction Friday Fiction Snippet…
“Because I know you. Because I care about you. Because I made you. There, you…
People Who Live in Glass Houses – Fiction Friday
I suppose you shouldn’t throw stones into me either. There is a certain frailty to…
Fiction Friday Second Person
This writer took a huge chance on me, the reader, by taking me far far…
Fiction Friday – The Lake House
Everyone brings baggage. The disagreements usually occur in my upper reaches where not everyone…
Tea House – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could Talk
There are more teas than any one person can consume in a lifetime. There are…
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…