San Mohel

Week of 6/19/11 Prompt: Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die     San Mohel San Mohel was a hard scrabble town, at the end of the road, in a ditch next to nowhere. Wranglers, hit men and banditos where the common element in this broken down, shanty-town burg. When unsuspecting visitors accidentally [...]

I will keep no secrets from you

From the week of 6/1/11 Prompt: I will keep no secrets from you Note: This story is told from the perspective of a particular animal; I really am not this angry or solipsistic! Can you guess what one?     I am a predator. I am the bringer of death and the conservator of life. [...]

Treat me like the clerk that I am

Week of 5/18/11 Prompt: There was a pause in the very breathing of the clerks. “I’m telling you, son, that is not the way that we do things here,” Irwin said. “We file contraptions under “C” just like anything else that begins with that letter.” There was a pause in the very breathing of the [...]

Happy hour

For the week of May 10, 2011 All apologies for the text re-flow from MSW Prompt: “There was no time to go home, and I did not want to wander about the streets.” The empty pint glass came down on the bar with enough force that I was sure it would leave a mark. I [...]

Oval Office

From the week of 5/2/11 Prompt: ‘and he was still smiling, as if he had just uttered a joke.’ Oval Office “Say again?” the President said into the speakerphone. “The Bird is in The Cage, I repeat, The Bird is in The Cage, sir,” the voice said from the other end. The President drummed his [...]

Golden

I apologize for the reflow from Word. 4/19/11 Prompt: “But he’s golden! Completely golden.” The Captain stared out of the window at reddish purple cloud looming ominously on the horizon. For some reason his gut was telling him that the cloud had something to do with it. The Scientist, he knew, had it all wrong, [...]

Hazmat

Last month I was invited by a friend to join an online ‘3-minute fiction’ writing group. Every week we receive a prompt in an email, usually a quote from a magazine, newspaper or book, which consists of one sentence that we then must build a short, 600-800 word story around. The catch is that we [...]