Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

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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Full moon, black space. That is about as sharp of an image as I could get with my phone.

Whatever this is, I found it on a forest trail. I think it is seeds expelled from a pod.

I think it’s alive and hanging onto this plastered wall.

Full moon with clouds in the sky. I took this the same evening I took the first photo.

Ten Things of Thankful: June 13, 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.

(5) walkways, (6) trees, and (7) a grocery store not far from here

(8) landscapes, (9) lawns and (10) decorative walls

Six Sentence Story: How To Write A Love Poem

I told Mark to put a lid on his sarcastic babbling and write a love poem. The problem was Mark didn’t know how (which is why I’m writing this tale). Betty, Mark’s nemesis and master at setting off needless fireworks, was as bad as – no, let’s face it, she was even worse than – Mark.

Who would have thought those two would ever come together since by every natural law on the books you need more than self-exertion to do the impossible. But when the impossible happened to them, in spite of their exercising every option they had to stop it, Mark and Betty got what is called a miracle.

So, all you have to do to write a love poem is let heaven get near enough (like right inside you) so heaven can do through you (since you’re no longer a bystander) what heaven does best: lovely miracles.

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Denise offers the prompt word “option” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.