Had a hard time getting started on my Story A Day story today, for some reason. But the result was a 100-ish-word story about an adult damaged in childhood, displaying the damage with no explanation of it. Smile Matthew crept toward the boy, exaggerating his…

The photographs I used to illustrate today’s Story A Day May story are of octopus. DO NOT EAT OCTOPUS IN REAL LIFE. Cephalopods are extremely intelligent and are NOT for eating. Strange Food The commute was long and, as is my wont, I struck up…

Today, my Deal Me In deck dealt me a heart, so I read one of Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt‘s drabbles (100-word stories). I highly recommend anything she writes. Yesterday’s Story A Day prompt was to write a 100-word story, and today’s is to write in a…