• Today, Carrot Ranch website is starting a Flash Fiction Rodeo Contest. For more details you can check their website at: The Ranch They’ll be having 8 contest, every Tuesday and Thursday, starting today and going until the end of the month. I heard about it a couple weeks back and was planning to post my Read more

  • Pedestrians and umbrellas. This post was written in response to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Pedestrian Read more

  • Beware of the Chicken

    They were playing hide and seek. There was one spooky house no one ever dared to go. He wasn’t afraid. The only thing was a sign about attacking chicken. Pfff… Chicken? Seriously? He got in and a gigantic shadow formed around him. Shaped like chicken. He was the size of a worm… This post was Read more

  • Taking the ferry at sunset… This post was written in response to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows Read more

  • Fiction: On display

    They were visiting the Wild Western museum. During their visit, the guests could dress up. He decided to prank her. All dressed up, he hid in one of the displays. Stubbornly, he would only show himself after being found. A few hours later, the lights went off and the museum’s doors closed…   This post Read more

  • Last Sunday my bestest friend moved out of the country. He’s from Germany and for the past 5 years he’s been willing to go back, and for the past 2 he’s been actively searching for jobs there. (I sorta told his story here once…) So now it finally happened. He is happy and I’m happy Read more

  • Fiction: Poetry struggle

    I was fighting with the rules I need to follow to write a verse. Does it need to rhyme? Does it not? How many syllables? Oh, so hard! Then I came up with this… I was tired, so I crossed the river to the west, and finally sat down to get some rest. This post Read more

  • … for that email…. This post was written in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting and allowed me to play a bit with Paint 3D, even if I ended up saving as 2D…   Read more

  • I need to see people

    This week i’m feeling anxious. It’s a mix of several things. I’ve been working from home and that’s not something that resonates well with me. I’m a social bug and need daily contact with people. Working remotely feels lonely. On top of that my team is not great on communicating on email or IM anyways, Read more

  • Fiction: Busy Bee

    Thursday morning. Wake up. Migraine. Get up. Wake up the kids. Have breakfast. Get kids ready to school. Walk them to school. Work from home. Automation won’t work, do it manually. Stop to go to the doctor. Come back to a meeting. Work non-stop until 3:25. Bring suitcase down for hubby. Pick up kids at Read more

  • If I came with a warning label, people may not like me much. My secrets and sins would be disclosed. And that’s not good. If a warning label would be attached to every person, then everyone would know about their secrets and sins. And get mad, and get hurt, and get away. No, I don’t Read more

  • They were working on a new project. Her job was to create the schedule and plan for it. She was struggling with the project management tools, and that was impacting the start date. The team got anxious, afraid her struggles would delay the project so much that the deadline wouldn’t be met. When she finally Read more

  • Fiction: Honeymoon

    They met very young and were best friends forever. Then each went on with their separate lives. But all the time, they still had each other at the depths of their minds. One day, they meet again. They look at each other and see time flying backwards all the way to their childhood together. “Hey, It’s Read more

  • When he was little, he decided he would live 100 years. He had a happy, healthy, fulfilling life. The day before his 100th birthday he lay in bed peacefully thinking: “One more day and I’ll be able to rest.” The next day, after blowing up the candles, he closed his eyes and died.     Read more

  • They are newly wed and snuggle every night to sleep. Time goes by and they realize it’s more comfortable not to snuggle. The distance between them in bed grows in the same proportion as the problems of the daily life increase. Soon, the bed will become too small for both of them.   This post Read more

  • Fiction: Stilettos

    We were doing a paint project outside when daddy came to pick the kids up for the weekend. He looked uptight, she was all dressy. I was covered in paint, tangled hair. She had a frown and seemed uncomfortable on her stilettos early in the morning. I had a big smiling face.   This post Read more