Indefinitely

October 1, 2022Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Adversity, belief, Creative writing, Current events, Deceit, Faith, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Micro-fiction 39 Comments

Photo credit: © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

They didn’t know when Power would return.

When they’d be allowed to leave.

Only that it would have to.

Because it had been promised. And they’d been raised to listen. And believe.

The grid was down. The streets were bare. The shelves that once were filled to the brim were naked in the lanterns’ glare.

It mattered none.

When they had faith.

Power had said, before he left, the back of the car packed with goods he “had to take to the needier elsewhere,” that they were meant to wait, “indefinitely, if need be.”

An test of faith.

Till death.

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers

The Gall

January 8, 2022Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Adversity, Betrayal, Cruelty, Deceit, Flash Fiction, Home, Homelessness, Micro-fiction, Temerity, Weekend Writing Prompt 16 Comments

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She steamed and paced and stomped and stewed.

The temerity. The audacious liberties he’d taken.

It was one thing to sell the house.

Another, to have removed her name from the deed.

To have kept the change hidden.

Her parents’ house, no less.

The place of hers – not his – childhood.

Cruelty was why she’d left him.

But this?

He, vacationing on islands.

She and the children, homeless.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Temerity in 69 words.

Beguiled

January 30, 2021Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Beguile, Current events, Deceit, Harm, hope, Lying, Manipulate, Micro Fiction, Poetry, Psychopathy, Weekend Writing Prompt 14 Comments

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When she returned home

They thought

She had grown into what they had always

Hoped she’d be.

Instead she was

A mistress of

Illusion.

A mouth that spoke,

A smile that held

A hidden mock,

Bewitching their longing

Into the

Nightmare

She had planned

For them to feel

But not

See.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Beguile in 51 words

Profit Margin

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Boat, Camouflage, CCC, Creative writing, Deceit, Flash Fiction, Inspection, Mafia, Micro-fiction, Photo prompt, Practical solutions, Trafficking 12 Comments

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He walked around the boat.

Excellent. Most people would not give it another look, which was exactly what he had intended.

They’d done a good job, aging the structure so it seems derelict, abandoned, old.

The bits of metal, old jerrycans and the ‘who-knows-what-plagues-hide-under-this-junk’ that were strewn about only augmented the effect. The well-placed rusty barbwire didn’t hurt, either.

Perfect.

Very few knew that once aboard and down the hatch, the innards were state-of-the-art creature comforts and the latest in surveillance.

There had been too many botched drops lately. Too many intercepted by an over-zealous coast guard. It was a shame that their contact inside had been exposed and that greasing of hands was no longer appreciated. Mateo had been taken care of, of course, to minimize risk of blathering. But supplies still needed to get through. Profits required solutions.

He nodded his approval.

Beside him, Boris exhaled. “Thanks, Boss.”

For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge

Debunked

August 8, 2018August 8, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Current affairs, Deceit, Fake News, Guilty, Lies, MerriamWebster, Obstruction of Justice, Propaganda, Reality, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 6 Comments

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So the meetings that were called a lie

Had in fact taken place on the sly

And collusion repeatedly denied

Is now admitted as if justified

While a letter obviously dictated

Proves a propaganda calculated.

No question remains

For anyone who has brains

That those who yell out “Fake-news”

Are the ones who perjure and ruse

Just as they who the fact-finders accuse

Are the ones to truth molest and abuse.

Merriam-Webster’s word for August 8, 2018:

Debunk

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Sophistry’s Secret

July 6, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Current affairs, Deceit, Fake News, Have a voice, Lies, MerriamWebster, Misleading, Truth, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 2 Comments

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Once deception gains hold

And defended

As gold

It becomes a routine

For mis-truths

To be sold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 6, 2018:

Sophistry

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Ostensible Justice

June 28, 2018June 28, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bait and Switch, Current affairs, Deceit, Justice, MerriamWebster, Standards, Supreme Court, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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When a rule was explained

As one meant to give voice

But abandoned

As soon

As one snatched up their choice,

Don’t be fooled to believe

It was done in good faith

For ostensible standards

Prove hypocrisy’s face.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 28, 2018:

Ostensible

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