Make Something: Rainbow
We are a blended family with six children, ages nine to nineteen. Every other weekend, we are all together—eight people under one roof. Jim and I live in our home always […]
Tag Archives: marriage
Make Something: Contents of Pockets
Stepping away from the counter, we chose a table by the window and set down our drinks. Jim was just pulling out his chair when I instructed him to unload his […]
Make Something: Touch
as night bends to day lone bodies shift and stretch ’til his hand brushes hers
Isolation
Day 329 prompt: Isolation once strained communication gave way to altercations they passed on reconciliation and selected separation but with months ‘til litigation neither wanting relocation they shared accommodations staying in […]
Long Distance
Day 311 prompt: Hearts his body tosses in an east coast hotel room mine turns in our Midwest suburban bedroom brains forced to focus on matters in our midst hearts bound […]
Obligated
Day 294 prompt: Obligations the alarm announced her obligations rouse children feed cats serve breakfast pack lunches start laundry wash dishes walk dog she did it all smiling humming warmed by […]
Together?
Day 266 prompt: Together (a haiku) they may co-pilot a minivan but that’s no proof of wedded bliss
Hands
Day 264 prompt: Hands they emerge plump and pink from the veil of white bubbles that whisper over her dinner dishes still for half a second then two rapid twitches scatter […]
Paradise Lost
Day 259 prompt: Bliss do you ever reminisce about forever bliss so warmly promised with a public kiss? with things amiss some lose that bliss in a cold abyss of “I […]
Hope
Drunken Daryl Likes to hit. Sally wishes She could split. But she’s in Vegas Far from home life. “Ain’t no family Sharin my wife.” You want romance? Just go on […]
Perfect Union
Day 207 prompt: Union a matrimony of equals each autonomous yet holding fast to one another for a delicious bond of shared existence ‘til the end of their days P B […]
Beth Nyland 