Stories tagged with "streets"

  • Change Inspired by text

    Why I dropped him, and why I let him go…

    I’ll never know why.

    I saw Ezra, and I let go. I heard shouting, and I let go. B…

  • A Cat's Memoir

    Today I joined this wonderful site called ficlets. I was quite pleased when I realized that I would be able to accomplish my …

  • A Typical Morning Commute [Action Challenge] Inspired by text

    Petunia slowly sipped her ritual morning mug of steaming coffee, taking care not to burn her tongue.

    A sudden earth-shaking …

  • Finding the Brotherhood Inspired by text

    For days and nights he searched. The city was huge and he had forgotten, but his legs and arms remembered. He slept in the ba…

  • The Perils of Whimsy

    “Did you ever notice,” she said, “that this street has two names?”

    “That so?” I glanced toward her.

    She stopped halfway up …

  • Hometown

    Coming back to his hometown only served to remind him of why he’d left in the first place. Walking through the streets,he cou…

  • Blur Inspired by a photo

    They say freedom comes with a price
    A two dollar subway fare
    And the erosion of rubber underfoot

    See the sun beat down
    As yo…

  • Searching For The Salt Shaker ( A Kittens for Mittens Challenge) Inspired by text

    Johnny was living on the streets, He could be seen walking around the neighborhood picking up all kinds of keepsakes. One day…

  • Self-Imposed Unhappiness

    The night was silent except for the soft hiss of bike tires eating up wet pavement, and a ragged, shallow breathing as the gi…

  • Dante's Eyes Inspired by a photo

    Dante wasn’t a troublemaker, but trouble sometimes found him due in large part to Dante’s slow wittedness.
    The Philadelphia …