Hello. I am continuing to participate in my regional online group's microfiction Monday's. (Mondays?) What happens is our dear leader gives us a theme of the month (which I usually ignore/forget) and a prompt for the week. We're supposed to limit ourselves to under 300 words, but I rarely do that. I am a chronic … Continue reading Microfiction Monday – Untitled
Category: fiction
Excerpt from “Crooks”
Back in February, I wrote a story prompted by the theme "love and loss" and the word "evening." A later draft of this story is currently out there in the world looking for a home. This passage, which will introduce you to the speculative romance's dorky and homesick main character, was cut from an early … Continue reading Excerpt from “Crooks”
Microfiction Monday
My cool regional online writing group has started a challenge - to write a story under 300 words following a prompt each Monday. I surprised myself by jumping on the first prompt and coming up with... something. This actually started out as a somewhat humorous story, but, it seems, it's easiest to take things to … Continue reading Microfiction Monday
Park Ranger Love Story (Flash Fiction)
Park Ranger Love Story (Transcribed and maybe a bit altered from a maybe true story recounted by a ranger at Pacific Rim National Park) by Kilmeny MacMichael Once upon a time not that long ago, somewhere here in the Americas where mountain lion roam, a woman was out hiking. And when she came around a … Continue reading Park Ranger Love Story (Flash Fiction)
Institution (a teeny story)
Eowanna was yawning when she saw the lady in the moon, the lady untangling her hair with her fingers and looking lonely in the dark. Then Eowanna reached up and gave the lady in the moon her favourite hair brush. It was a special brush, with its heavy handle and backing made of the universal ebony; with its stiff and sharp bristle teeth made from the edges of clouds.