creative writing – Tina Stewart Brakebill

Flash Fiction, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Feeding the Resistance: One Bunny at a Time

March 26, 2026 Tina Stewart Brakebill

Why so glum?

Well … March came in like a lion, and it looks like it’s going out that way as well, not an effing lamb in sight; plus everything is so egregiously awful, how can you NOT be glum?

I just think about the Easter Bunny.

For crying out loud, you’re a full-grown person!

Which is why I’m focusing on the Bunny, because, as Cormac McCarthy said “…you fix what you can fix, and you let the rest go,” and for me, snapping the head off a solid-chocolate bunny sounds like the perfect way to let go while plotting the revolution.

Aaah … Vive la revolution and the Bunny!

It’s been awhile since I’ve written so thanks to the following for my inspiration.

It’s Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop

FOWC With Fandango — Glum

RDP Thursday: Egregious

Liminal

Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

what if the windmills are real?

March 12, 2026 Tina Stewart Brakebill

I thrust my knife forward, but my foe is invisible in the darkness. That’s alright. I can wait.

Then the dark is pierced by light, revealing a nurse. The ugly one with the mustache and spider veins. Smelling like tabasco and beer.

“You’re tilting at windmills again aren’t you dear? Let’s get you into bed.”

I comply. I can wait. Her time will come.

Our challenge was to tell a story in 64 words using the following words:

NURSE

TABASCO

INVISIBLE

SPIDER

WINDMILL

MOUSTACHE

Can You Tell A Story In…

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

at fifty (MLMM Monday Wordle)

January 5, 2026 Tina Stewart Brakebill

at fifty, I believed a precious chapter had begun

I lit sparklers and filled my cup

toasting

my voice ringing clear and loud

but by sixty

the message felt muted

too many tick tocks watched

my hope wiped by ceaseless drama

by seventy I hope

my cup will fill once more

toasting

a new chapter begun again

Today’s Monday Wordle asked us to use the following words: chapter, clear, cup, drama, felt, fifty, message, muted, precious, sparkler, watched, & wiped.

Not sure what I’ve created here. Free verse? Sad screed?

MLMM Monday Wordle #458

Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

The Neighborhood Watch

December 5, 2025 Tina Stewart Brakebill

The woman sipped her tea and activated the live video feed. It was time.

The girl with the red hair was floating in the pool like that Disney mermaid. The agent strolled through the backyard. He stopped at the pool, clearly irritated.

Just then, the boy began to creep from behind the pillar. Then ran at a full gallop. A water gun exploded. The man landed in the pool.

Another open house ruined. Those kids really don’t want to move.

Can You Tell A Story In…

Our challenge was to tell a story in 80 words using the following words:

CREEP

MERMAID

TEA

VIDEO

RED

GALLOP

AGENT

PILLAR

Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

The Grands First Date

November 22, 2025 Tina Stewart Brakebill

Grandpa, do you remember meeting gramma?

Of course. It was a blind date. Meaning I’d never met her. Not even a photograph. Then Betty opened the door. She was a vision. So beautiful. My heart was immediately full of love.

It was your heart that was suddenly full, was it? [wink]

Betty! Don’t be nasty.

That explains the “empty” gas tank at Lover’s Lake.

Betty! [wink]

[66 Words]

Inspired by word prompts of VISION, FULL, and EMPTY, this little story basically wrote itself!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Nov. 22, 2025

Weekend Writing Prompt #443 – Vision