“Story Starters” is my creative exercise: 500 words max, 1-2 drafts, inspired by a found image  The night we found Mama floating in our pool, Papa begged her to come out. Warned her that with thunder in the distance the…

  “Story Starters” is my creative exercise: 500 words max, 1-2 drafts, inspired by a found image    She watched them sometimes. Standing outside the dining room window. She watched them the way a hungry child watches a bakery. And…

  “Story Starters” is my creative exercise: 500 words max, 1-2 drafts, inspired by a found image    Frankly, she was sick of that damn glass box. Oh sure, the customers loved it. And Hank claimed a good 10 percent…

(“Story Starters” is my creative exercise: 500 words max, 1-2 drafts, inspired by a found image.)  The ladder appeared out of nowhere, but the moment Genevieve saw it she knew who it was from. Three weeks she had waited. Three…