TWT #43 Radioactive Light

Faint light leaks from the manhole grate, a golden coin that will be lost when the last radioactive rat dies. … More

TWT-Quit Your Fuss

Quit your fuss! Barbed wire insults are not necessary when an unassailable wall of words has been built between us. … More

TWT-Stifling Summer

This week BulBul’s Twenty Word Tuesday Challenge asks us to take a “Turn.” Join us. Summer’s porous fruit barely begins … More

TWT-The Brown Fairy

Today’s Twenty Word Tuesday word of the day is-Opium. Visiting France, I discovered that many famous writers of bygone times … More

TWT-Story

Waterfalls are story webs, wisps of silvery thread spinning the yarn of generational streams, resifted through the earth’s eroding palms. … More

TWT-March 30th, 2021

Topic: Colors Granny cut multi-colored squares by lamplight. Invented a pattern bouncing me; a jigsaw of joy I wrap myself … More

TWT-A Nod to Hope

Prompt: Hope Hope is a thing with feathers hopping a fiery hoop before a springtime swim towards the horizon, heedless … More

TWT-The Bitten Bride

White webs of crinoline cling to concrete, cradling the wobbly legs of a bride bitten by the fear of forever. … More

TWT—Driving Delusion

Prompt: Fantasy Toes shovel sand amidst the ocean’s endless highway. Unscalable cliffs shield our lucky combinations; I press the window … More

TWT–Alpine Sting

Prompt: Wind Beware the föhn. Bows branches in your mind, wailing eerie pain. See the shadow of him; a spot … More

TWT-Seasonal Creep

Prompt 26: Spring “Back aching?” “Switch positions?” “Never.” My seasonal creep lifts the mattress, metal coil blooms crocus purple underneath. … More

TWT-How the Heart Burns

Today’s Prompt: Heart “Lemme teach you ‘bout love.” Grandpa scissored. “Love’s diarrhea. It’s unexpected, unstoppable and unclean.” That VDay, I … More