Small Stories -Edited for Clarity

Most of you know the rules to for Saturday Centus, but in case you don't, click on the button on my sidebar to learn about it and read the creative entries.  There you will also find links to Jenny's other blogs.  Here is my contribution for this week:

“Surprise. I’m pregnant!”

These words rang out as my daughter Mallory popped in my kitchen door.  

My heart caught in my throat.  Pregnant?  She knew she was not supposed to get pregnant, so if this were a joke, it was a poorly thought-out one.

“But, Sweetie......”

“No buts!  I have a baby growing inside me, so don’t ruin it for me.”

“But...”

“I said no buts!  All I’ve ever known for sure is that I want to be a mother.  Now I’m gonna be one.”

“Well, I'm pregnant, too.  Who’s going to take you to chemo while I’m home with morning sickness?”

© Claudia Schlottman

August 28,2011

It's Not Always Easy

It’s Six Word Fridays time again, and Melissa’s prompt is “easy.”  To learn all about this meme and read the other entries, click on the Six Word Fridays button on my sidebar.  

I’m Writing Under the Influence of Lortab, so forgive me if my words are a little slurred.  To learn about why I’m saying “Yes” to drugs, please visit The Red Sweater.  The last two posts tell the sad tale.

Now, here’s my offering for today.

not always easy

sometimes a piece of work

drips off the ends of my

fingers   slides across my

keyboard & writes itself

at others   words wedged in

creases of my right brain 

   await excavation   

   conveyance to the page

words   my dearest lovers

   my worst of enemies

serve me at their pleasure

& make of me their slave




© cj Schlottman

If I Die Young

Yea!  Jenny gave us back the words she has been so stingy with of late.  Her Chakras must be balanced.  For whatever reason, I am glad she has regained her generous ways.  To see all the entries to this superb meme, just click on the button on my side bar.  There you will also find Jenny Matlock’s blog buttons.  Click on them.  You won’t be disappointed!  Here is my offering for today:

if i die young it will be 

at 95 / surrounded

by friends and family

as we take afternoon tea

there will be champagne on ice

lovely luscious lemon squares

salty / spicy-hot cheese straws / 

slices of soft sweet pound cake

i will hold court from my bed /

swathed with sheer silk canopies /

as yards of laughter cut from 

the bolt of my life fade to 

endless stories born of our

intertwined lives / braided of

love / woven into fine cloth 

i will smile / sip tea / wait to

take sweet kisses for each of you /

hold your warm hands in mine /  

cool now as i feel myself

shrink / grow smaller an smaller

sunshine will shimmer through thin

curtains as it begins its

descent / bathing our faces

in soft light of my dying

i will love your forever

© cj Schlottman

August 20,2011

Trial and Error @ Small Stories and Stuff

A day late for Six Word Fridays, but that's not too bad for me.  This week, Melissa chose "trial and error" for our prompt.  To find out all about this great meme, click on the Six Word Fridays on my side bars.  You will also find the other entries there.


My contribution is short and to the point......here goes...




After trials and errors I know

six syllables is my favorite meter.




©cj Schlottman
August 13, 2011

Meat Locker @ Small Stories and Stuff

August 13, 2011

Jenny must still be cranky.  She’s done it again - limited us to only 50 words plus the three in the prompt.  All of the other rules apply, and you can find them by clicking on the Saturday Centus button on my sidebar.  There, you will also fine the other entries.  They are well worth the time to read.  Look around at Jenny’s other blogs, too.  There’ some good stuff there.

So, Laugh out Loud is our prompt today.  This one is going to be a challange for me because I haven’t laughed, out loud or otherwise, for several days.  Maybe this will pull me out of my funk, though I really think I need more than 50 words to do it.  (Thanks, Jenny).

Here goes....

I want to laugh out loud

but I am working Saturday

stuck with Snarky Sheila

and Dastardly Dave.

Weekends are their empire

or so they think.

The atmosphere in here?

Well, you could hang meat.

Patient load is light but

mine is not.

Why's it so hard for them 

to be polite?

Shattered Heart @ Small Stories and Stuff

This is my link to Saturday Centus, brain child of Jenny Matlock.  We usually have 100 words and to use with a prompt she gives us.  But this week, just because the weather is so hot, she has decided to allow us only 50 words.  (Thanks,Jenny).  To learn more about this great meme, just click on the button on my sidebar.  You will find some fine writing as well as links to Jenny's blogs.


Most people think "You are my Sunshine" is a happy love song, when, in truth, it is a sad love song.  Click on the video below and listen to the whole song as sung by the Soggy Bottom Boys!  Please hit the stop button when the music stops, or it will roll over to Johnny Cash and not restart The Soggy Bottom Boys. (I don't know why).

Shattered Heart




Heart shattered by your leaving

   I love you still.

Sunshine faded into night

   your face I see

through gloomy silent tears

   a moonlight mirage

aglow in the darkness.

     

Gone to another   you

stick to my heart

   a prickly reminder

of my loss   a sand spur

as sharp as any knife.




© cj Schlottman




PS - Jenny, I read every post from last week, and I commented on all except one.

Your Eyes

It's Six Word Friday, and I am posting on time for a change.  Please click on the button on my sidebar to find out how it works and read the other posts - maybe publish one of your own.

Your Eyes

You speak words dripping

with honey   but you lie.

Your eyes   merely mirrors

   deflect the questions in

my own   reveal nothing

of what is in your heart.