{wild whimsy}'s Favorites

  • Silver Dream

    “When will it rain?” asked a young-looking girl to a distant and bemused boy sitting in a large pasture.
    “I’m waiting-”
    “For …

  • Coming Home Inspired by text

    Just when the days start getting colder, I walk the streets I never knew. Behind the library and across the cemetary, where t…

  • Family? [13] Inspired by text

    Lyric slid onto the chair, into her mothers lap. She looked up into her mom’s eyes and asked, “Mommy, is daddy going to live …

  • Field of Dreams Inspired by text

    Timmy finally reached the bottom of the hill, lying on top of Angela. He laughed quietly and kissed her lightly on the lips….

  • Said the Poet, to Herself (a poem) Inspired by a photo

    Reach out and above; go
    beyond and deep
    inside; stretch and reflect.
    Expand and expound. Write
    to old friends, lest they feel…

  • My Dream

    He’ll find me in the woods, crying. He’ll be strong but gentle. He’ll pull me from the ground, and hold me in his icy arms. ...

  • The Vibrant Blue Inspired by a photo

    The little boy ran through the sky. He ran until the hazy gray became pure deep blue, until the blurred sun turned into the v…

  • Glistening Skies (Part Two) Inspired by text

    “You arrived sooner than I imagined” the Queen said softly to the boy. “It must be getting worse”

    “I don’t understand”, said…

  • An Ode to Pain Inspired by a photo

    I look at you a lot. Probably more than is mentally healthy. But seriously, it is your fault. You were always the the geek…

  • A Scene from the Balcony of the Tower Inspired by a photo

    He took me up to the top of the Tower one day.

    Out on the balcony, we could see the City spread out below us. From so high …

  • The Language of a Memory

    We were both sixteen, something I will never forget as long as I live. As long as I keep in my heart the memories of us that …

  • 525,600 Inspired by a photo

    If we have 525,600 minutes on a year, why do we spend 525,599 of them wondering about what we could be?

    If we have 525,600 m…

  • I Knew He'd Seen the Future that Night

    “Do you believe in dreams?” he’d asked me, jerking awake out of a restless sleep, drenched in a cold sweat.

    That was before…

  • The statue and his love Inspired by a photo

    “Some say that if you stand just right, you can see their love,” the mother said
    The boy squinted his eyes and cocked his hea…

  • "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned"

    “I don’t hate you. But I will.”

    “You hate me. And you will.”

    “I said I don’t hate you. Yet.”

    “Well…how does what I’ve …