Stories tagged with "wine"

  • It's Never Easy (part 2) Inspired by text

    I could not help but think about what I had to endure with my own break up.

    Nothing as bad as what I have just seen, but bad…

  • The Park, part 2 [Place Challenge] Inspired by text

    He was someone who seemed to exist only in my yearbooks. Just another stow-away in my teenage memories.

    One night in colleg…

  • The Trick

    “You want to see a trick?”

    Her eyes narrowed. “What kind?”

    “Like nothing you’ve ever seen,” he said, and took a swig straig…

  • snowmanangelmickeyemouse&piglet Inspired by text

    Frosty T. Snowman, an angel, Mickey Mouse and Piglet walk into a bar.

    The snowman sits at the nearest stool to the d…

  • What Does that Mean To Us? Inspired by text

    The girl labored endlessy over the tub. How long had she been standing there? Days or Months? She was vaguely aware of someon…

  • A neotropical vignette

    As she leaned forward to refill her mug of cabernet, her chair rocked down to crush an ant and frighten a lizard. She leaned …

  • Welcome home Inspired by text

    Gina paid the cabbie with a fifty. Her mom was unable to pick her up at the airport again.

    Stiff lip trembling visibly, she …

  • It's Time

    Luckily, he was there when I arrived for the party. He watched me thread through the crowd of people as I attempted to cross …

  • Another Tale Told 5 Inspired by text

    He dangled from the rafters kicking, swinging back and forth; the man in the hood came for her.
    Debra dropped the lantern ker…

  • You are the sky (poem)

    Church bells in October, clamoring their mournful plaints
    through the crisp air.
    Doves scared into near weightlessness, thei…