I think we need some space

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'space'. Bert and Gladys were folding up the tent on their camper trailer when Bert said “Gladys, you know how we were sleeping in the space inside the tent last night?” Gladys said ruefully “Well, you were doing most of the …

Pathways

These pieces were written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'path'. Path-ology (Acknowledgement – I am indebted to Perambulation T. Biped, Professor of Path-ology at Forkintheroad University, for providing the following definitions and clarifications for new students of this discipline.) Psycho-path – Walking trail to the Bates Motel - not to …

Martian towards Bach

These pieces have been re-worked from two of my previous longer stories to meet the strictures of the Six Sentence Challenge and the prompt word 'bookmark'. Mark Martian and Eddie Earthling discuss novels Mark Martian said to Eddie Earthling ‘Eddie, what are you doing?’ and Eddie replied ‘I’m writing a book, Mark, or a novel …

More bubbly

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'coffee' (which is a name misleadingly given by Starbucks to 497 varieties of brown dishwater served in buckets to entitled millennial wannabes who place orders longer and louder than the Gettysburg Address). Over coffee, Arabella was lamenting the loss of her …

Beyond a joke

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'exchange'. Stop me if you've heard this but there's this woman who’s dumped her gaslighting partner and exchanged him for a new bloke she’s pretty keen on. Being a modern liberated woman, she decides to take the initiative and says to …

Hi ho the merry-o, a’mazing we will go

These two pieces were written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'labyrinth'. There is a tenuous connection between them for the eagle-eyed but I hope they can each stand alone, even though they're together. 😉 Before entering the labyrinth In 1958, Maxwell Stuart, an Indigenous man was arrested for the murder …

Stinky swings and Diogenes bites

These two less than serious tales are in response to the Six Sentence Challenge presented each week at Girlie on the Edge, with the prompt word of 'strike'. Beaten by a stretch As the striker on the old stadium clock struck six, Steve ‘Stinky’ Stilton swung three bats to stretch his stiff arms, all the …

The eruption that invented Christmas

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'eruption'. Gone for a creative non-fiction approach on this one. Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia and in 1815 it produced the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history. The ash from the eruption column dispersed around …

Stroke and touch and go

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'stroke'. Ever since Bruce had his stroke, he doesn’t do much more than sit on his front veranda and, with his good hand, knuckle the head of his arthritic companion, a German Shepherd called Arfer, although these days the best that …

Up to your ears in bolls

These pieces were written for Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'key'. Can you dig these ‘ere worms? No point in a brand new pair of roller skates (even if you’ve got a brand new key) when you can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd, especially since I heard it through the grapevine …