Writing in the Twilight

If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to In the Twilight.

For today’s images, I used a star-shaped filter in the mirrorworld and used a lot of patience with the panoramic function on my camera to create my own twilight.

OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears

Watch Where You Step

Cracks
Cracks Cracks
all those pavement cracks
perils to mothers’ backs
a miracle they weren’t all in traction
with so many children walking around

~whoever came up with that~

must have lived somewhere with nice sidewalks
without roots breaking through where
there’s more crack than pavement
and with every step those backs
Crack, Crack
Crack

Writober 2023

Logline: Two sisters fight over which head to wear to the funeral.

This One Cries Too Much

Miranda threw her purse strap over her shoulder and rushed for the door expecting her sister to already be in the car, but then she saw her sitting in the living room stiff in her chair, her head next to her on the table. Miranda stopped and watched her a moment, but she didn’t move.

“Come on Moira. What are you doing? We can’t be late for our own parents’ funeral. Sitting there moping won’t bring them back.”

The head on the table looked up at her. “I don’t want to wear this one. It cries too much. It won’t stop. It’s giving me a head ache. Give me that one.”

Miranda pushed down on the top of her head as if it might jump right off her neck. “No. We had a deal. You wear that one to the funeral and then you can have this one for that party you want to go to.”

“I don’t care what we said. I’m not putting that back on. I don’t want to cry anymore.” Moira’s body stood up and took the head from the table and shoved it at her sister.

Have fun lingering in the twilight!