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Weekly Contest #284
The Dragonfly - 1080 words My husband left for work at 4 p.m. for an overnight shift. We lived on a peninsula jutting out into Maine’s Penobscot Bay. The location was rural and quite isolated. It was June and a gorgeous day with brilliant sun. I waved goodbye as he backed out of our driveway. Noticing that the lawn needed to be mowed, I went into the garage and started up our riding mower, hoping I could get the entire acre finished that late afternoon. After mowing the front lawn first, I moved around to the side yard. Suddenly, movement in...
Weekly Contest #110
A huge dose of gratitude has been flooding me for the past 36 hours. They always say bad things happen in threes. We are fine, but we had a scare coming into the Teton Mountains. It was my idea for us to come through the Teton Pass as a short cut down into Jackson Hole, Wyoming even though the elevation was 8,300’ and we were towing a 36’ Montana fifth-wheel. We both felt sure our dual-wheeled Dodge 3500 could handle it. We’d been through Loveland Pass at 11,300’ a few months earlier with no problem. But there didn't seem to be any other ve...
Weekly Contest #108
Pea-Soup Fog The cold salt spray stung my face, keeping me awake. This 60-degree ocean is no place to be without a wetsuit on. How long have I been in the water and how did this happen to me? Heading back home alone after a beautiful day out on the water, I enjoyed listening to the luffing of the sails. Whop, whop, whop ─ music to my ears. Close to rounding the familiar rocky point ahead, I decided to drop the mainsail and enter the harbor using just the smaller jib. While untying the mainsail ropes, a gust of wind suddenly came up out of...
Weekly Contest #36
1040 words Dad Died Laura Lee Perkins, MS Dear Diary – Day 1 - Today was my 17th birthday. I got this diary as a gift today. Mom thought it might help if I wrote out my feelings. My father wasn’t here; he’s been dead for a week. WHY did he die now? Where is he? Why can’t I find him? I’ve been begging for some kind of sign from him. How can I know he’s okay? I hurt…like black and blue all over. Dear Diary – Day 2 – Why won’t my pain go away? How do I know if my father can see me? I want an answer; even a nudge w...
Weekly Contest #35
A QUIET WONDER 1265 words Laura Lee Perkins Perched on a large granite boulder near the water’s edge, I was near Acadia National Park in the community of Seawall. I’d promised myself that I’d make the 50-mile drive this year on the first day of spring! And here I was. The temperature was perfect; the sun glinted off incoming waves as silent sailing ships and lumbering lobster boats bobbed on ocean swells. Sailboat crews tugged on sail riggings and fishermen hauled traps, filled with lobsters, from the ocean floor. Each ...
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