Twittering Tales #73

 

can i paint it?

what color?

i thought red.

no you can’t paint it red. we’d be the laughingstock. you paint a barn red.

all right, purple then.

what’s wrong with you? listen to me. paint it white. we do things right around here.

 

222 words
Photo by MabelAmber at Pixabay.com
For Twittering Tales

Bad Poetry Contest

Be My Valentine

I’ve got love instead of blood pumping through my heart.
It’s squirting out my auricles and ventricles and every other part.
It’s like romantic heart disease.
It’s like a heart attack of love unease.
It’s like love cancer causing pain,
then metastasizing to my brain.

premonitions

My hindsight is largely composed of resuscitated premonitions.

 

For Daily Post

my windmill

 

I bought the house because it was an incredible bargain. I didn’t think the windmill would be a problem. I signed the sale papers without reading the fine print.

I can’t build a swimming pool near the mill, or even start a garden. As an historic structure, it’s protected, along with the grounds around it.

The public must have access.

If the structure burns, I’ll be jailed without question.

I may not modernize it. No electrical equipment may be installed.

The bat problems may be mitigated but not abated.

I may not rent out rooms in it.

So I quit my job at the bank and reopened the damned thing. The green locals who grow their own corn and grains keep me in business.

It’s one of those lemons/lemonade things.

 

Words: 128
Photo by Fandango
For FFfAW Challenge

burn

day to day
animals eat each other
carnage
dinner
a rough way to run the world but
nature would have it that way
while perversely burning
fields and forests
to roast not just
prey but
predators too
who might enjoy
a nice cooked meal


For dVerse

premonition

I had a strong feeling

That doing what I did

Was going to

Cause me

Pain

Unfortunately

It was not a premonition

Unfortunately

It was a postmonition

 

For Daily Post