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Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

Next Door Neighbors

Tina Stewart Brakebill

“Why do you always think the worst of people? Maybe she had some leftover plants and she thought you might like them. Just a generous neighborly gesture.”

Are you really that stupid? Did you not see the pristine white water can? Or read her Next Door “suggestions” about how some people are not doing their part to “beautify” the neighborhood? It’s clearly a declaration of war.

But instead of saying any of those things, I agreed, “Of course, I’m sure you’re right dear. I’ll be sure to thank her.”

Nothing says thank you like a three-ton delivery of manure.  

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PHOTO PROMPT © Rowena Curtin

Thanks to Rochelle for another great Friday Fictioneers Prompt. 

8 March 2024
Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

if I could be me

Tina Stewart Brakebill

If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

if I could be me

but wiser, softer, kinder

quiescent no more

the arrogance of youth shed

my chrysalis cracked open

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Velizar Ivanov – Unsplash

This was inspired by Jetpack’s question of the day and by Susi’s post from today entitled Insulating. Thanks Susi!

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

Just For a Moment-WDYS 195

Tina Stewart Brakebill

just for a moment

yesterday lives in color

then grief recalls time

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Image credit; Himesh Mehta @ Pexels

I’m sure that “What I See” is deeply connected to my own recent loss (of my dad) but (to me) she looks so unbearably sad.

Visit Sadje’s What Do You See? and tell us what you see.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

New Hope

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Rising from the depths,

the solo flame meets daylight.

In concert, they join

to purge the night’s dark shadows.

Illuminating new hope.

Image credit https://unsplash.com/@codyhiscox

It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, but I’m determined to make time in 2023! So thanks to MindLoveMiserysMenagerie’s Photo Challenge and Linda Hill’s JusJotJan challenge for getting me back in the game. Please visit their sites for guidelines for the challenges and for some great writing.

Here’s to purging the shadows!

Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

Un’altra notte rossa

Tina Stewart Brakebill

All around me, conversations swell. I understand little but instead of seeming cacophonous, the words soothe. They distract from my reality until the prosecco dulls the pain.    

Then the old woman who runs the osteria stands over me, “Ciligie”?

Seeing the cherries shakes me from my stupor.

She continues, “Devi rimanere per La Notte Rossa.”

The Red Night.

Stuck in an unrelenting loop, I had forgotten the world moves on. Ciliegie abound. And the people celebrate. But not us.

The cherries taunt me with their promise of sweetness but my mind fills with another red night as darkness falls.

This 99 word story was made possible by the https://carrotranch.com/2022/07/25/template-story-challenge-in-99-words-3/