Creative Busyness

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  • Thunder

    Silas and Maeve looking at the window.  “Look Maeve, a cloud dragon! It’s giant and fierce!” “Oh cool! And look there, there’s another one over there.” Wind is picking up. “Wow!…. They’re getting closer to each other! Do you think they’re friends, or enemies?” “Enemies for sure! Look, that first one seems to be frowning Read more

  • Recovery

    Cesar has been sick for many years. His lungs are weak, so are his kidneys. Often, he gets an infection, and goes to the hospital. Some stays are short, some are long… He knows how scared his wife is of losing him, so he fights to always come back home to her. She gets ill Read more

  • Red Fox

    The chickens are loose, happily pecking on the ground of the farm. One of them raises her head, trying to listen. Silence. She goes back to pecking. From the woods at the end of the farm, a red fox watches. He’s hungry. Slowly the fox steps closer to the field. The chicken gets alert again, Read more

  • Hansel and Gretel

    He escaped from prison long ago and since then have been living in the woods. His crime? Abuse and cannibalism. Police went crazy trying to find him, but the woods were so tight that he was able to hide well enough. Last year a new house was built at the edge of the woods. A Read more

  • High school sweethearts

    It was their Senior year in high school. Prom night was coming and that’s when they were planning to give themselves to each other in full. The chosen place was a treehouse at the backyard of an abandoned house. Although shabby on the outside, the inside looked like a fairytale. He lays her down gently Read more

  • The Dark Priestesses

    Their lord was captured by the priestesses of the Dark Sect. She couldn’t let them have him. He was a good soul and needed to be saved. She got her sword, mounted the mare and whistled for her companion dog. In a minute they were flying through the woods, avoiding the branches and roots, trying Read more

  • Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Rodeo Contest

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fiction: Flying monkeys

    The monkeys jumped from branch to branch among the forest trees. Nice, but it wasn’t like flying. Sometimes they would climb all the way to the top of the tallest trees to look at the sky and dream of flying high. Every time the lucky eagles would  come by, they would ask them to tell the Read more