Tick Tock – Tick Tock the clock struck twelve…
photo prompt C E Ayr Can you sell me a stone of potatoes Mike. Mike lifted a sack of potatoes on to the chip shop counter. Only for a mouse to jump out of the sack. The following day a…
One dark night in the garden
Photo prompt curtsy of J Hardy Carroll Owl wondered what slugs tasted like as he watched a young hedgehog patrolling a garden. Owl was quite a thoughtful individual. He often found himself thinking. Earlier he had watched a collie tugging…
Sunflowers
Photo prompt by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields So much is grim this year. That is until I look up at the sunflowers. Their golden globes tower over a carpet of scarlet nasturtiums. As I pick plump pods full of sweet tender peas,…
Understanding the Air
If the air could talk. Yet it may. Perhaps I do not hear. Perhaps to listen I need to use differing senses. Air bathes everything I know. It appears to nurse good and evil equally. But the giver of life can…
Travelling high up
Photo copyright Jean L Hays Dolphin wondered what it would be like to fly like a Albatross. She regularly asked questions of her parents. Only this morning when they had been gliding past a diver she had asked her mother…
Order delivered
Photo Prompt curtsy of Jean L Hays Dear reader, you will know how it is, you purchase a computer, then acquired the knowledge of how to use it. All seemed as it should be. Until you went on line. You…
Trouble at the Mill
Prompt photo The siren was calling us workers to work. The clatter of clogs on the wet cobbles was almost deafening. Down stairs the fire was banked up with slack, ready to be stirred into life. I knew the sink…
Rihana’s Special Day
Raihana knew that today would be special, last night the sky had been so clear, the stars so bright, and Aryan had lain so close. She had felt that the gods were smiling on them, then the discomfort had started…
Not in control
Indeed this is a troublesome day, I am going back over countless notes. It seems that my control system is in meltdown, overloaded with copious notes on paper. I need to install a traffic light system. Red meaning send to…