Archive for the 'Soul Food Cafe Story Starters Project' Category

Has The Cat Got Your Tongue?
March 31, 2007

by anita marie moscoso 
Inspired By The Soul Food Cafe Writing Prompt
The Flies

Daisy Cutting was not normal- her parents knew it, her brothers and sisters knew it and her dog knew it too.
That’s why Tarzan lived under the porch instead of above it and if they could have the rest of Daisy Cutting’s family would have followed Tarzan under the porch [...]

It’s All In The Cards
March 20, 2007

by Anita Marie Moscoso
Inspired by The Soul Food Cafe Story Prompt
Tarot Narrative

Idell Galina tells fortunes and casts spells from her little store on Eastlake Road.
Of Course Idell can’t really see into the the future and she can’t really cast spells but she can tell a good story and she’s got a very winning smile and [...]

Violet Delaflote Was Here
December 28, 2006

by Anita Marie Moscoso
Inspired by The Soul Food Cafe Prompt
” The Red Death “

 
Violet didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the end of the world; it was what happened after it was all over that would keep Violet awake at nights.
She’d would be laying there in the dark picturing a dead and lifeless world [...]

Memento Mori
December 27, 2006

by A.M. Moscoso 
Inspired by the Soul Food Cafe Prompt:
The Red Death
Completed October 30, 2004
This was the first story I posted at the Soul Food Cafe.
I’ve brought it back out because the little drawings that made their way into this story ARE real and they’ve been showing up around Seattle AGAIN.
No Kidding.
AMM

Seattle Herald News
Seattle, Washington
October 30, 2004
After nearly 20 [...]

Deadwood Farm
December 27, 2006

by Anita Marie Moscoso
based on the Soul Food Cafe Excercise
Romancing The Ruins
There are two brothers who live in a farmhouse at the edge of a town called Mercer.
 
No one knows how long they’ve lived there or where their family was from or if there had ever been anyone living up there besides the two brothers. [...]

Home Is Where The Heart Is
December 27, 2006

By Anita Marie Moscoso 
Inspired By The Soul Food Cafe Prompt
The Deserted Farm House

Back along on Deception Road is a little farmhouse that no one lives in.
After the house was built and then put up for sale the orchard out back died, the little vegetable garden died and all of the pumpkins and squashes and tomatoes rotted right [...]