Dropping to My Knees
To Sow Seeds of Solitude
The Dry Earth Makes Way
Writing Inspired By FOWC and Scotts Daily Prompt and Putting My Feet in the Dirt
Seeds
Floating
Lucy stared at the board. Letting her mind drift back to childhood. Chin resting on the table. Watching her grandfather play. Try too hard and it went fuzzy. Like a picture with the autofocus off. But if she just let her brain float sometimes she could recapture that moment of joy. When it all made sense. When it was fun. Before. Before she was a novelty. Before she was girl genius. Intellectual heir to Hawking. Right down to the chair. But today it remained fuzzy. The timer ticked. Counting. Days. Weeks. Months. Years. She stared at the board. Floating.
Cover Photo Credit: Jeff Arnold
Word Count: 99
Zucchini Dreams
Once upon a pumpkin
The harsh weight of the blade fell
Oh! Jack O’ Lantern!
Whimpered the zucchini squash
Am I to be the next slice!
Halloweeeen! inspiration from dversepoets and FOWC
Behind the Blue Pane (in Two Parts)
I haven’t felt much like writing the last few days. Too much … too much sadness and badness and hopelessness. No doubt that’s why when I WAS inspired to write today, it’s a bit dark. Doubly dark. So it’s a two for one today: flash fiction AND a haiku.
PART ONE: FLASH FICTION
It had always bugged me. That door. It wasn’t in the center! And that blue pane. It wasn’t in the center of the door! Day after day I passed by. Trying not to let it eat at my brain. Until I couldn’t take it anymore. Mother had told me (over and over and over again) that I was being obsessive. Then she’d nag me about my pills. I didn’t think she needed to know. I was on strike. No more pills for me. They made me docile. But without them, I could march up to that door. And demand to know! But now I stare at that blue pane from the other side. Hunger gnawing at my brain. And I wonder. Was it ever really off center? Or was it me?
PART TWO: HAIKU
words strike the blue pane
hunger gnawing at my brain
opening the void
131 words FLASH FICTION written for FFfAW
Photo Credit to Jade M. Wong
Further inspiration from FOWC
And with RonovanWrites
10 – 25
Proud to have my work picked for Pure Haiku !
my spirit escapes
through a portico of thought
unbound from my mind
my spirit escapes
through a portico of thought
unbound from my mind
© Tina Stewart Brakebill 2018
Tina is addicted to haiku, sometimes at the expense of her other writing, so quit asking her when she’ll be done with her novel. To find out more, follow her at Tina Stewart Brakebill.
This was one haiku that stayed with me from the first read-through. I like the freedom in it and again, the writer approached the theme of portal from a different angle.
This haiku is part of our PORTAL theme!
Tina Stewart Brakebill 