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100 Word Count

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo and word prompt RUST.

https://rochellewisofffields.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/ff-with-antiques-along-the-mohawk.jpg?w=378&zoom=2

“It has been forty-two years,” the little white-haired lady whispered. She stood stooped and defeated at the threshold of her old farmhouse.

“Yes Ma’am but we found it, we found his truck!”

The elderly woman’s eyes teared up, the moisture trapped beneath heavy lids stretched tightly over her bulging eyes.

“Is he in the truck? His remains?” her voice trembling.

“The Sheriff and Coroner are there waiting for you,” the Deputy said.

He watched her disappear down the hallway.

“Ma’am?”

“One second young man, while I freshen up. I can’t let him see me like this you know!”

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

I never lie!

Said he to me.

I just never tell the truth!

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Simply Six Minutes Challenge 2/8/22

Picture prompt provided by STINE WRITING

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 02/08/2022

christianbialczak.com

My face in the mirror

is not me

I can see through

the reflection

to the other side

Where my true self resides

hidden and broken

Shattered into so many pieces

each one sharp

cutting into my soul

Can you not see

what your cruel words

and false compliments

have done to me?

No longer human just a shell

Cracked beyond recognition

of what was or could have been

Unrepairable remnants

slivers of a true self

shards of glass within the sand

provided by pensitivity

Written by Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

I thought it’d be hard

to keep up my guard

‘til I discovered he’s quite a bad card

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Response to prompt word NIBBLE posted by Mish at dVerse Poet’s Club

44 word limit challenge

The sunset washed over us as though the rays were liquid gold, intwining our slightly browned skin into one solid, substantial aura.

He was the one! I felt a warm nibble on my chilled ear. A woman moved toward us.

“Who’s that?”

“My wife.”

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Photo by Shutterstock.com

https://livingpoetry.net/2022/02/07/february-visual-poetry-prompt-4/

Oh! Egg so fragile

Egg so light

How you do delight –

My tongue tonight!

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to What Do You See #120 February 7, 2022posted by Sadje

What Do You See? – Before I Die

Before I die

and leave this life behind

There’s just a few little things

I’d like to do if you don’t mind

Even if you do mind that is

This is my poem

My own words, thoughts and wishes

So that I can show all of them

The things that I must do

the rights that I must wrong

the tasks to be accomplished

Before I can sing Him my song

I want to be kind

to someone unkind

To touch him with love

Heal his eyes if he’s blind

I’d like to leave my mark

Travel farthest from this spot

Help the needy and forgotten

Fight for those who haven’t fought

For human and animal rights

against the progress of man

and those who do damage

to people and land

Without a care for the future

no compassion nor giving

to the plight of all things

Before I die, to start living

Happy Sunday and welcome back to This Present Moment, prompt #4. Prompt by Claudia Braun https://claudiabraunblog.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/this-present-moment-4/

Southport Marina, Southport, NC

My very first, very short outing after battling COVID-19 with pneumonia for the past six weeks. Mask on of course, but so nice to get out if only for a few minutes. Caught this picture as the sun was setting.

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC) – MAVEN

An ace at word smithing
the village elders called her
The term made her smile
she did not mind

Adept at choosing just the right phrase to lighten the day
and help others
in expressing their love

A cognoscente connoisseur
a wizard of the written word
Sought after far and wide
for her proficient word mastery

Until one day the expert scholar
asked them to call her by name
None could remember it so
she bid them farewell

Saying with her artists smile
It would do you well this night
to remember the girl wordsmith
whose name is Maven the Whiz

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In Response to FOWC with Fandango’s – One Word Challenge CUDDLE

https://fivedotoh.com/2022/02/04/fowc-with-fandango-cuddle/

There is nothing more soothing, nothing says I-Love-You more than a good, strong cuddle.

A cuddle asks for nothing in return. No preconceived notion of compensation or recompense.

Babies thrive when cuddled. Pets learn trust through a cuddle and a soft nuzzle.

Creatures wild and free return home to their mates and moms for a comforting hug.

I myself am a Love Bug in the first degree. Cuddle me close and I’ll stay true.

Neglect me, forget me or push me aside and it’s another’s cuddle for me.