Challange July 13, 2008

A Person

 A Place

A Thing

 

A Story.
Can you see it?
Can you?

Don’t Tread On Me July 13, 2008

Inspired By The Soul Food Cafe Prompt
The Crime Baron’s Table

When you write weird stories and have a collection of shrunken heads  ( and for the 50  billion-th time YES THEY ARE FAKE! ) people send you weird news stories and ask you what you think of them.
You know that look your parents had on their [...]

Beauty Was A Beast July 13, 2008

 
Inspired By
The Soul Food Cafe Prompt
Lessons and Philosophy from the Bear of Very Little Brain
 
Once Upon A Time
When I was about 6 years old my family realized I was a little girl who was fascinated with stories about Head Hunters and Zombies and a guy named ” Burke’s Hare ” who robbed graves and sold the rotting bodies to ” [...]

I Am Here July 13, 2008

 
Inspired by The Soul Food Cafe Prompt
The Armoury
Once I had to clear out of a place fast- there had been an earthquake and not knowing when we would be let back into the building I grabbed from off the top of my desk-
my I.D. but not my purse
my notebook and some pens
a bottle of water and a picture [...]

Her Eyes Are Wrong June 29, 2008

The picture is in a gold frame and
and it’s hanging in a basement in a little room with a coal shoot door that won’t stay nailed shut where I used to play as a child.
One year I pulled the picture down, turned it over and saw written on the back in dark red ink:
“Her eyes are [...]

Word Up June 28, 2008

It’s all about words today here at the Bones.
If you could banish a word from the English Language what would it be?
Me.
I would flush the word boing.
Heck.
I wouldn’t even bother to flush it, I’d take a plunger and jam it down the first toilet I could get too before I could stomp it out of existance.
Who [...]

My Hero June 28, 2008

It was a bad day.
It was one of those I feel invisible days.
It was one of those ” if I got sucked up into an alien space ship from Mars or burst into flames I’ll bet no one would notice” kind of days.
You know.
It has been one THOSE days.
So when I come home from work in a worse then [...]

Amlet Kerr Goes For A Ride June 15, 2008

Amlet Kerr is a prisoner on a ship that is sailing along side the stars and not under them.
She is all alone- the last of her race in the entire Universe and shortly after the ship Amlet Kerr is sailing on docks Amlet Kerr who is now all alone in the Universe will be taken into a room [...]

Just Saying May 15, 2008

This doesn’t look like a Drive-In.
It looks like a Cemetery.
Just Saying.

In The House I Call Home May 10, 2008

Photograph(s) copyright Shaun O’Boyle
 
Last night I said to a traveler
lost on the road that goes by my house:
You could come home with me.
You wouldn’t have to be afraid of
doors the doors that open and close by themselves
Or the way the darkness never moves away from the light
in the house I call home.
Sometimes there is music [...]