Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.
Six Sentence Story: Sky Blue Joy
The best burden to bear is one that is light. I mean, who wants a heavy load and no one wants one so light that he floats away. Gravity has its advantages, you know, as long as joy keeps your hearts afloat.
And so the babbling, like a charge of Don Quijote, went on and on and on, but eventually – thank God – it was over.
Larry wondered what Maggie and he were going to do next. He looked at her and she smiled back.
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Denise offers the prompt word “charge” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Trail: Path Opened
This walk is part of the walk on this side of the railroad tracks in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
It was blocked for a while when some water maintenance work was being done, but now it is open. Since it was part of a circle I walked the full circle.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
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Cosmic Photo Challenge: Distortion Using Contrast and Cropping
Dale offers the prompt “distortion” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I use the GIMP photo editor. It’s a free tool with many features I have not explored. I mainly use it to shrink the size of the image and rotate it a bit if I got the horizon wrong.
Here I am going to use the contrast feature of the editor along with cropping.
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Ten Things of Thankful June 20, 2026
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
Six Sentence Story: Room 215
The amazing thing about Room 215 at the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro is that no one knew it was there until the red-headed writer opened its door and just walked in. Then the tall, thin man followed her to open a secret chamber hidden in that delightfully mysterious room.
After hearing about the room’s mechanical machines and the strange, very short man that emerged from it I went to look for myself. I was wondering if maybe I might find a story there, marvelous and melancholic under its ancient dust, about King Arthur’s Camelot or the Starkeeper’s Carousel to tell others back in the cafe.
However, no matter how many times or how slowly I went up and down the hall where the wonderful room was supposed to be, I couldn’t find it though I had no doubt it was there. Although I came back empty handed, at least as far as marvelous stories go, I still could tell about how I was not going to give up the search.
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Denise offers the prompt word “dust” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Proverbs 30:5
Six Sentence Story: The Duel For Peaceful Valley
The demons were up to no good in Peaceful Valley, but what else would demons be up to? No one in his right mind liked them.
That’s when a new sheriff came to town. The meanest, the toughest, the nastiest demon of the lot challenged the sheriff to a duel over who would rule Peaceful Valley.
The sheriff accepted the challenge. At high noon the town watched as the meanest, the toughest, the nastiest-of-the-lot bit the dust and demons fled.
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Denise offers the prompt word “dust” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Story.
Trail: Across the Tracks to the Left
This is a neighborhood trail on the other side of the train tracks taking a left at the fork in Fort Mill, SC.
It is an easy trail. Should the bridge look too sketchy, be careful (or turn around).
Written for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
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Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature In Black And White
Dale offers the prompt “nature in black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I picked some photos that had little color in them but black and white.
I was going to remove the color, but then I would have to learn a new trick with the photo editor.
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Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 