Writing Prompt

Holding herself tightly, Isa McNamara shivered in her paper gown. Dr. Ollie Bird looked from his patient to his nurse to the tablet in his hand. With a raised eyebrow nurse Niamh encouraged him to get on with it.

“So, Mrs. McNamara, you came in today complaining of what now?” Dr Birdy said. “Pain? Extraordinary fatigue?”

“Nah, I feel the same as always. This is a wellness visit, just my annual ...

Farris never shuts up. I live next door. He keeps his Stars and Stripes in plain view.

“Look at this area. It’s going to welfare.” Farris says that about once a week.

“Is that right?” I’m often too tired for his nonsense.

“You know, this area had a chance once. Now, it’s just welfare.”

“Really?”

“Why should I pay to support people who don’t work?”

“Why should you?”

“I shouldn’t. I pay my ...

Why wont they listen?

It’s wrong and they know it’s wrong but they chose to turn a blind eye

“It was for educational purposes” they say but how is saying or doing such vile things for education?

Your so quick to move if someone has something in their mouth like gum

But the things you say and do are except-able?

Racism is nothing to you but if someone’s dyed their hair now it’s an issue, if s...

I remember readning about Charles M Schulz in bible study. C .S. Lewis as well, but that’s a whole other bag of chips. Mr Schulz. C’s...

Israel pushed the creaky wooden door of her apartment open. She stood at the entrance for a long few minutes. With a sigh, she kicked the door closed behind her. Dropping her backpack on the ground with a thud, she fell backwards onto her mattress, the springs bouncing her up a little. All she could hear was her still racing heart, the bang of a gun….the open eyes of her dead best friend….she star...

According to the Clinical Child and Family Psychological Review, “grandfamilies is the term coined as a result of the opioid epidemic. It describes the current societal issue of a whole new generation of grandchildren being raised by their grandparents.”

“Grandma, grandma”, the little girl cried with tear filled eyes. “Where’s my mommy and daddy?”

Looking down at this beautiful child, the old ...

Ahem. Knocking softly. He might be asleep. I hear the creak of a bed spring and then his big flat feet on the floorboards. The door unceremoniously opens. He's standing there. Wearing, hmm three sweaters I'd say. Beanie hat. Ripped jeans. Simpsons slippers.

'Y'alright Mate?'

'Yeah just wondered if you wanted to chip in for some ingredients pal. My mum's lent me her crockpot you see. Thought I'd ma...

It's been 2 years.

Living on this nightmarish planet has brought nothing but pain to me and my family.

I can no longer see the land we used to inhabit, taken away by the waves and deserted in an endless ocean. What have we done?...

Sweat beaded my forehead as I took plate after plate out of the cabinet and stacked them on the counter. “Turn the air down, will you Jack?” I yelled, careening my neck to where Jack was lugging dressers and various other pieces of furniture down the stairs. His jeans were sagging and muddy and his baseball hat was caked with sweat. I vowed then and there to wash it the first chance I got. He clai...

Why can’t we go?

What, we don’t have money?

Where did it all go?

Inflation my dear, honey.

We work and work every day.

But never get ahead.

All we do is pay.

Until we are both dead.

Times like these are tight.

Keeping it all together

Let’s just love not fight.

We will make it forever.

Tessa🦋...