My Favorite Stories
- Ships passed me in the night
By in Six-Word Memoirs
- There but for laziness go I.
By in Six-Word Memoirs
- I am what I've been becoming.
By Chuck_Wuest in Six-Word Memoirs
- There was more laughter than tears.
- Cinderella story, only edgier, more subplots.
- The other shoe may never drop.
By SandyT in Six-Word Memoirs
- Our tears haven't filled the arroyo.
By Lisa_Miller in Six-Word Memoirs
- passion flows through me like fire
- Catching so many babies, none mine.
By Gwen_Riddell in Six-Word Memoirs
- She put the hips in hipster.
By Christopher_Cocca in Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak
- Words fly from my hidden heart.
- They're all frogs, Princess. Get hopping.
My Stories
- economic crisis. mid-life crisis. fuck.
- no sleep, but dreams for you
- don't ever walk in my shoes
- queen mum sounds better than 'grandma'
- more take-out than make out lately...
- the anticipation is lifting me higher
- hope rises like cream in milk
- Soaring on zephyr winds of change
- silver-haired, seeking silver lining....still...searching...
- an empty plate mirrors my mind
- my baby now has her own
- sausage: it's not just for breakfast
- sweet petite births the big one
- apparently this is the final chapter
- this body betrays me daily, painfully
- didn't pass the pre-employment physical. @#%*!
- cold pizza and popsicles for breakfast?
- fifty-five: not just a speed limit
- hit by car; unplanned flying lesson
- my favorite moments revolve around you
- bought magnifying mirror: oh yeah, wrinkles...
- need 12-step program for six-word addiction
- crying 'foul' on this so-called life
- oddly sweet, but blue-veined and old
- i need a lube and tune-up
- love consumed me like wild fire
- savoring this sweet and sour life
- no longer enjoy my own cooking
- polluted ocean regurgitates dead marine life
- lacking sleep but engorged with love
- awash in poverty, cleansed by love
- once had a dad, of sorts
- you were always the sweetest treat
- full moon, glittering snow crunches underfoot
- winding down; winding up. can't decide.
- couldn't walk a straight line sober
- smother me in deep, dark chocolate
- savage thoughts seep from tender heart
- chow hound, clam chowder, ciao! baby...
- aimed high, fell in a heap
- slightly off-kilter, lean to the left
- my heart a mosaic; broken, reset
- memorial day. remembering the immortal mortal.
- finding my voice through written words
- sampled horsd'oeuvres, never found main course
- can punctuate but prefer not to
- living the aftermath of my youth
- belly crawled through tears of glass
- he hunted the bottle green moosehead
- hovering between life/death, pen in hand
- said "no" to the nice ones
- picked men unfit to meet parents
- a moveable feast: kitchen to bed
- writing myself back into the picture
- hearts on fire; the dinner burns
- i, an idiot savant, sans savant
- words luminesce, like fireflies at dusk
- she always thought you hated her
- sextets of words play inky harmonies
- i've never lived on easy street
- wasting time like there's no tomorrow
- cooking for a crowd of one
- the feast was gustatory and carnal
- so miss his huevos de toros...
- of thieves and kings
- words pound like hail; "ugly", "stupid"....
- should have scrambled with the chef
- i am somehow just not enough
- stuck in mid-bloom, waiting to flower
- i must be the missing link
- crashed on the freeway of love
- dawn of love, eve of destruction
- jerk sauced
- playtime after slicing jalapenos not recommended
- the sizzle eventually reduced to simmer
- like campfire sparks, perseid meteors showered
- blame catholic church for bad knees
- started so young, ended so old
- bought a stepstool...still couldn't reach
- i dream of juicy summer watermelons
- you be you. i be i.
- Often cooked together. The flame died.
- columbian now means a morning brew
- a love without end, sweet pea
- on a ladder, reaching for stars
- Not Harriet, June, Donna. Just Mommy!
- until becoming "mama", lived in black/white
- am always swimming against the tide
- each new day was my favorite
- my heart never ran on empty
- realized bliss: baby zen master giggles
- always had more love than money
- alcohol and cruelty his true loves
- solo, in body built for two
- I sometimes howl at the moon.
- for me, menopause=men on pause
- the 'happily ever after' never was
- nest is empty, girl-child grew wings
- sweetest angel baby; demon tempered teenager
- my success is you; heart, soul
- i still dance alone by moonlight
- we were two/too, madonna and child
- a face too easy to forget
- what you left behind grew stronger
- born in idaho, my tater tot
- another fucking day without fucking another
- you exhaled the scent of rosebuds
- such perfect beauty came from me?
- you tiny gift, with diapers, poo...
- v'gina travelogue
- shift happens
- nipples now point in opposite directions
- full moon rising, birthed a star
- once upon a time, i loved
- once a mother, never a wife
- raised by misogynist; self-loathing blooms
- hail mary, full of grace: h-e-l-p
- bootstraps got worn, pulling myself up
- looking within i come up empty
