Now I Shall Be Spectacular

A seed blew into my garden. It took root, sprouted and grew unnoticed until wisps of honeysuckled air come-hithered me. So spectacular was the flower that I gobbled it up, fruit and all.

33 words for the last . No topic, no word, just a free write.

Lisa. Joules. You rock. Trifectans. < 3

Rapture at 101Fiction, #Issue3

The first full day of Spring seems like a good one to put up the link to my story at 101Fiction's #Spring #Issue3

               Rapture

I'll get up a translation soon. There are thirteen stories, all about Spring. And other things : )

Tramuntana

Gusts like wrecking balls howl the picnic table through our bay window. The majestic red maple, shorn of its roots, clasps the jeep in a fierce, shimmering embrace. Nothing will satisfy this keening banshee.

33 words for , including SATISFY  (transitive verb) 3a : to make happy : please   b : to gratify to the full : appease

Amor Roma

Pleased to be one of 5 winners for this second-to-last Trifextra. Gold is good.

  Fingers fluttering,

arms floating high above

staccato crack, heels pounding wood.

Over swishing train, flamenco dances;

Sara Baras dances, flamenco train swishing over

wood. Pounding heels crack staccato.

Above high-floating arms,

fluttering fingers.

33 words for , one of which must be a palindrome.
This poem is not a palindrome, but if each word were a letter, it would be : )
 * The title means Roma, or Gypsy, Love. And here is Sara Baras: 

            

Journal Entry

Forget trying to worm that adolescent code out of me. You do not want to release the hurricane sequestered in these pages. Braver souls have succumbed; stronger egos have wilted. Just walk away.

33 words for , including WORM (transitive verb) 3 :  to obtain or extract by artful or insidious questioning or by pleading, asking, or persuading —usually used with out of: wormed the truth out of him