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 […]

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 […]

It Sounded Like Crying ~ A Journal Prompt Response

It sounded like crying. Not like a child, but still tears and he was talking to himself in muffled whispers and all his choked words losing their shape so that it was closer to moaning. I heard a whipped dog once, and it was a sound that was the same, all the world breaking and […]

Listen ~ A Journal Prompt Response

LISTEN Oh he had something. Unique it was what he had. Something to do with his ears, he said. Everything fine-tuned so his balance was perfect. He walked between high buildings balanced on a high wire and cameras recording every balletic stumble but Emile never falling. I saw him once take a wheelbarrow out on […]