It is the couple
Joined together at their first date place signing the divorce papers.
Seriously! How long can one middle aged, overweight, lying, drinking idiot manage to stay alive?
I…
Evil will leave when a house has no more human unrest to offer or sometimes…
Me…
I’m okay, isn’t it a little early for a beer?
Greg…
I haven’t a clue, you brought…
Imagine your character as a cube. The surfaces may have huge or subtle differences…
Walk into my room and come to find one of my Jordan Air Max 360s…
I was a gathering place for people who socialized, not just a bar where you…
I have committed FaceBook-ary, Tweeted, researched the nature of Ravens and watched The Blacklist. …
The mousey eyed woman turned away from the kiss. The new view was dying, brown,…
__ I am a trailer house, a mobile home. Not a double wide, though. I…
The Department of Defense has perfected a new weapon, code named Eraser. Much like Facbook’s…
Did you know there is more than one way to skin a cat?
Who wants to…
“How long did it take to dry her up, like that?
7 Boathouse I spent my life on the shore of a lake. I had no…
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A reflecting maze is a hall of mirrors with an adult rating.
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#27
“Did you place the ad?”
“Yes, I did.”
“Really, blond over blue? It sounds like you’re…
“That’s the thing, Marcy. I don’t know where I am.”
Panic rose from Marcy’s stomach…
I had a guy in here who got nabbed for shoplifting. He was a hoot….
Little by little the grass begins to green. Bunnies play among the fawns and…
I am the carriage house that sits right next to the Story Mill House. …
With a name like the Story Mill a place like this deserves preservation and telling….
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Habakkuk 2:11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the…
The middle child named Alex fell head over heels in love with Tammy, the farm…
With two classrooms there is still a lot of repetition. Year after year the teachers…
2 Yes, I am an humble outhouse. I was slapped together and mounted over a…
Mid-stride, Ray Holms freezes. The world drops out from under him and an actual noise…
But, really, the point of this isn’t just about putting newspapers to work solving mysteries…
I have been around since the late 1800s. I came out of the tail end…
The little ones had to be able to tie their shoes and write their first…
Ms Malloy expects them to be on time. But she always makes them wait. …
During the weeks when there are no pledges the girls do work in the community….
One healthy baby boy. Blond over Blue. Needs food, clothing and shelter.
That was when Captain Green Sleeves began chasing the sea bird.
Around the corner the bird…
I am a neglectful writer, filled with good intentions. I’ve heard the road to…
What is a Submission Packet and Why Do you Need One?
You have your novel written,…
Two men in work-a-day suits were laying in the hallway. Their blood pooled and mixed…
I am the brick house, stop laughing, I was built by one of the three…
I’ve disabled some embedded links. If you were going to do something illegal, there…
The first was a golden retriever. She was a beautiful dog. Brandy lived here till…
The insane and infirm were given their own shelter, shared, I heard, with those who…
This week I have a scene with Greg, an easygoing office manager and his employee,…
No one would believe the stranger than fiction story behind my quiet spell. Let’s just…
What you consider a spirit or a ghost is an impression most of the time….
Fiction Friday – From a Lighthouse – A Spoon River Anthology of Houses. All of…
Everyone brings baggage. The disagreements usually occur in my upper reaches where not everyone…
…“Always leave a note on the board.” Mark said in a tired monotone still working…
It was during the measles outbreak that one of the boys got hold of some…
This writer took a huge chance on me, the reader, by taking me far far…
I’m the last stop. Not so many people are happy to be here. As clients,…
My creator came from a place with four distinct seasons. She began working on me…
A picture book was found in my walls during a renovation. As the story goes,…
There seems to be a taboo on how a slaughter house is run. The conflict…
He said very clearly that if he couldn’t have his kids, no one was going…
“Everyone saw it.” The man rummaged a cloth handkerchief out of his trouser pocket…
They don’t know he’s convinced them to volunteer information no one should have. The ladies…
I have four bodies down here. Interred one at a time. Who would want to…
the most infamous warehouse in modern history – Fiction Friday – If Walls Could…
How long is too long? Helen had been there more than a decade. “Yes sir. …
A house of cards is insubstantial. A house of cards has absolutely no integrity. A…
Sometimes a lower form would come in, these kind used heroine a whole different kind…
Sure, towards the end we had to hide behind a massage therapy business, but still,…
Writers are eavesdroppers by nature. We are also voyueristic.
A few decades ago we had…
I’ve said rejections are proof a writer is writing. Unless you are content with journaling…
The class decided to put all of us gingerbread buildings and houses together on two…
I began as some scrap board nailed together with big nails. I was a flimsy…
I am a flop house. The Crack House and Boarding House might argue the…
From the Bride’s Side
“No, do you think she’ll have the nerve to wear white?”
“I did.”
From…
He is looking for something and he can not recall what it is. It may…
The oldest guy, who isn’t all that old, if you ask me, claims the regular…
– I sit here in dingy aloneness. The electricity, water, and heat are off. My…
…..Women’s Society, one of the nation’s earliest old age homes, in 1823, “that through the…
One woman expressed it in a way that made me understand.
She said, “My man loves…
Your Protagonist is only as well rounded as your Antagonist.
Everything you consider when building your…
Sometimes, someone writes something so vivid, so right or so wrong, that I want to…
The story I have to tell is creepy. Bad. It isn’t too late to leave…
The crew who built me and my sisters left here when I was done and…
I am a house in my own right but like I said, I am better….
The most exciting thing that has happened here, keep in mind me and the I…
… By this time I began to take my cozyness to heart. I was becoming….
“We ain’t never gonna get out and you know it. And some day he’s gonna…
Mr. Kendra actually leaned in and licked it. “Salt,” he said. “She is…
They got hold of some old book and plan on killing a pig this year….
He should have picked another kind of bird to study. Maybe crows who lived behind…
Did you know dust is almost entirely human skin that is shed daily? Kind of…
He picks up a character five minutes before the story opens. Then one hour before,…
“Now that it’s closer, I see what you mean. There’s blue and white under…
I suppose you shouldn’t throw stones into me either. There is a certain frailty to…
#40
“Hello, I am calling from KSOL TV 5, I’d like to interview the person who…
The walls would cry out against us a frightening thing. I was terrified. …
Selina pressed the hard cold muzzle against the stalker’s ribs. She wished she had a…
Found
One baby boy. Blond over blue. In a BabyBumper car seat. If…
“Bitter, you say. What kind of bitter?”
Mike stood up and rested his butt on the porch railing. “Jo.” He…
Drawers tell a lot about a person. You really want to know your neighbor’s…
“Because I know you. Because I care about you. Because I made you. There, you…