Friday Flash with Lindsay ~ “It Took All Night”
IT TOOK ALL NIGHT It took all night. I couldn’t sleep none and couldn’t get comfortable in the goddam seat. That’s right. Bitchin. Me and I can sleep anywhere, and didn’t mom once say that I was the one could sleep on the edge of a butcher’s knife and she was something proud when she […]
Friday Flash with Lindsay ~ “Milly in Love”
MILLY IN LOVE Sometimes she couldn’t do it. And Milly clenched her fists into small hard roses, and she stamped her feet making a small drum thunder on the wooden floorboards, and she screamed. It’s what she did when the dance steps she’d learned left her and she tripped over and that was done […]
Nice As Ninepence ~ Another Journal Response by Lindsay
Nice As Ninepence by Lindsay A journal prompt response to “She came in every day.” April 2, 2013. She comes in every day. Regular as clock time and quiet as a small draft that drifts in under the door. She creeps across the floor, it seems, almost as though she moves on tip-toe or wears […]
A Different Place Now, and Any Other Day ~ Two by Lindsay
My pleasure to offer you two bits of writing by Lindsay–a rather regular reader and contributor–inspired by past journal prompts. -PMc ♦ ONE We was in a bad place, me and Jim. Real bad, you know. Arguin all the time and comin to blows some days and I was even in the hospital once and […]
When The Fizz Has Gone From Our Wine ~ A New Year Journal Prompt Response by Lindsay
AT MIDNIGHT ◊Note: Lindsay, the author of this piece, is a regular reader and contributor to the journal prompts posted on this site. This is her response to the New Year’s Even post of 2012. Thank you, Lindsay, for another wonderful bit of writing here! -PMc◊ There’s a weight of expectation. Like each year life […]
A Christmas Tale ~ By Lindsay
On Christmas morning I found this note in the comments section of my blog: “I have been waiting for you to post the Christmas Eve prompt just so I could do something for you… a Christmas gift of sorts for giving me something to make me write again. Hope your Christmas is filled with joy. […]
He Came Out of Nowhere ~ Another Prompt Response by Lindsay
He came out of nowhere. That’s the story that went round. Like he just appeared. One second there was a wind blowing and the dust of the street making small grey clouds, and the next he was there, standing in the road dressed in a black wool suit and a black tie knotted at […]
They Say… ~ Another Journal Prompt Response by Lindsay
Another fabulous response from Lindsay, a regular reader of and contributor to my Daily Journal Prompts. This one was written in response to Prompt #232, “It Starts With One Small Step.” They say it wasn’t real. That it was all just a film set with bad lighting. All a pretence to leave the Russians feeling […]
A Milestone ~ By Lindsay
Regular reader and terrific writer Lindsay sent in this response to Daily Journal Prompt #200: A MILESTONE Of course I know. How could I not know? A milestone become a millstone around my neck. All that stuff in magazines. And my friends already there – all of them, some on their third. And my mother […]
Why Not? By Lindsay
A delightful thing happens every now and again: I get a comment posted on my blog by someone who was inspired by the journal prompts and photos I post daily. Of particular note are a number of these that come from a reader in the UK, someone who only identifies herself (I believe it is […]