Frank Hubeny

Less than an hour after the dog broke loose from his chain, after he killed Joe’s chickens and after he hunkered down at the far end of Joe’s isolated, one-room cabin, Joe walked through the cabin’s open door with a repaired chain in his hand. The dog growled and Joe knelt down a few feet from him so their eyes could stare each other down.

Pressing his index finger on the wooden floor, Joe said, “GET YOUR“—and may the gentle reader forgive me for not repeating the unfortunate adjectives Joe chose to describe the dog’s—”ASS OVER HERE!” The dog correctly understood that there were only two choices: either submit or someone was going to die. The dog bowed his head, turned his growl into a whimper and received the chain.

Joe forgave the dog stoking his fur to draw him out of the shadow of transgression as Joe led him out of the cabin back to the dog house.

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

Genesis 1:26 KJV – 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In My Warm Place

Dale offers the prompt “in my warm place” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Suppose it looks like the first picture below outside. The best thing to do is to not go out in it (unless you want to take some pictures).

If you have to go out in it, it is better to first go where it doesn’t snow and where you can swim all year round and take pictures of the sunrise.

Doors Along the Street—Thursday Doors

Although there are normal looking streets in Prague’s more modern areas, around the old town they are narrow with shops lining the mostly pedestrian paths.

Actually, I don’t know much about Prague. The reason I’m running my mouth is because I have to move the photos down on the page so they can be displayed better.

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Posted as part of Thursday Doors.

Sacred Song—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Sacred words, how they abound.
They whisper with a louder sound.
They turn a doubting heart around
to praise once more with song.

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Ronovan Hester offers “persevere” as the inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Those sacred words persevere. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Isaiah 26:3

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

*Badge by Laura @ riddlefromthemiddle.com*

A Fast With Daily Bread—Six Sentence Story

After watching a documentary warning him about this, that and the other thing, Brian looked for sources to corroborate what he had heard. He quickly realized that what he heard was only partially true. He also wondered for whose benefit the documentary was made.

He heard his heart advise him that a half truth is worse than a whole lie.

And that was when Brian began his fast with daily bread which he had been on now for over a year. The yokes broke, the bonds of wickedness were loosed and the oppressed, including Brian himself, were freed.

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

Isaiah 58:6 NKJV – Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?

Down in the Park

Dale offers the prompt “down in the park” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

From our townhome I can see the parkway. Walking down the hill and crossing the road I am in a park which used to be a golf course. There are trails, open spaces, a lake built from a dam and an occasional abandoned building.

These photos were taken over the past two years since we moved here.

A colorful, abandoned building with a view of the pond through the doorway

Old golf course with trees and mushrooms

East End of Charles Bridge in Prague—Thursday Doors

Look through the arch and you will see a building. Look closer towards the center of the two photos and you will see a middle door with two side doors.

The arch way is a kind of door or entrance as well leading to Prague’s Old Town.

If you go in the other direction crossing the Vltava River you will reach the castle.

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