A few years ago I became obsessed with Hansel and Gretel, the story. I couldn’t shake it. I did my usual paltry job of researching it, Grimm, Bettelheim, Opera, versions, but I couldn’t get close to it. I did finally…

If ever there was material for a solid country-western hit, today’s prompt is that material! It practically sings itself, backed by a strong rhythmic structure and a heartfelt sentiment to boot! An evident iambic pentameter-driven, (absent the unspoken silent "Our"…

I don’t mind sleeping away from home. I do mind sleeping near—or, my god!—with other people. (Although: I did volunteer to share a bed when the little writing group was invited to a member’s Clear Lake house. No snorer, tho,…

it's where i live. this home, this refuge. all about the cozy. the warmth, the nurture. here, i am blessed with good love. beyond fortune. how did this happen? the luck of this gravitational pull. why for so many this…

Home's the place we head for in our sleep. Sleep's the place we head for in our home. *************************************************************** August 14 prompt:I add it here because the prompt seems to have disappeared. (R.L.) Title: Simple Fear. A car coming at…

One time, in the seventies, my sister dropped two quaaludes before boarding a red eye flight from SFO to Toronto. In those days there were charter flights, very bare bones that you could get very cheaply, especially if you had…

[fiction, searching for a bigger story] I could have stayed another year in high school and with Mom, but I didn't. Acceptance to Brown came on Monday, the day she had worked two shifts because she never stood up to…