Empty Ester lost her head, once a prominent fixture on her shoulders, air lingers there instead. She blamed the loss on her stubborn boss who demanded too much of her vapid thoughts. “Find me the ‘Nail’ file,” he had said to her. “It’s the one after “O” called ‘Oblivious.’” She should have known not… Continue reading
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The Faraway Land of Abandoned Things
On the side of the road, laces tattered, leather faded, a shoe soaks up the late day sun. Once a vessel for a seafaring man, its destiny determined by a fickle sea in a violent sway or lurch of a boat, both succumbed to the ravages of a sudden rogue wave; the shoe and… Continue reading
Is Double Linking the Same as Double Dipping?
Linking two prompts with one post. Five Sentence Fiction: Forgotten Silly Sunday My apologies to Rhonda. Today, I have a linking problem. Following the Scent of Keys Where did I leave my keys? Did I lose them down the FedEx chute while dropping off the package? No, I drove home, stuffed them… Continue reading
One Shoe Left Behind
He was gone, one shoe left behind collecting dust in the closet. A slap of heel against the threshold and the door slam behind, sounds she remembered as he slipped into the dense dark of night, the emptiness lingering in the hollows of her eyes. He looked back as she steadied the scope on the… Continue reading