Evidence Of Hope

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Clues, Detective, Evidence, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, hope, Investigation, Micro-fiction, Runaways 58 Comments

“Aha!”

Nate looked at Mr. Banks. The tall man was bending forward, willowy limbs almost touching the pavement, round-rimmed glasses testing gravity.

“Aha, as in what?” Nate asked.

“As in I believe we have a lead.”

Nate felt his eyes fill. False hope was the worst. The desperation with which he clung to the possibility.

“And?”

The detective straightened. He pointed at the photo, then the pavement. “See her ponytail? See this? Her hair tie broke. Runaway or not, she would have tried to get a replacement. The pharmacy across the alley is the closest. They may well have footage.”

Photo prompt: © CEAyr

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers

As They Say …

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Video, Writing Tags: Current affairs, Current events, Denial, Evidence, Poetry, Politics, Reality, Rhyme, SoCS, Stream of Consciousness, Trevor Noah, Video, Writing prompt 6 Comments

Oy vey, Oy vey

Or, as they say.

Bless their hearts,

Now we best pray.

For this pack,

Who clear as day

Have evidently

Lost their way.

For Linda Hill’s SoCS prompt: (un)pack

Fatefully Furrowed

January 19, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Briefly, Creative writing, Evidence, Flash Fiction, Micro-fiction, Suspense, Warning, Weekend Writing Prompt, Wilderness, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 19 Comments

Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor

“What did this?”

Calvin gulped.

“What?!” Eric insisted. “A jeep?”

“Not a car.”

“What then?”

“We better turn back.”

Eric squinted at the muddy furrows.

“Nothing you want to meet in the dark,” Calvin shuddered and revved the motorcycle’s engine.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Furrowed in 40 words

“They did it!”

April 6, 2017Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Speech Language Pathology, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: Cookies, Creative thinking, Denial, Evidence, Funny, parenting, The Daily Post, Things Kids Say 4 Comments

Goldfish

“It wasn’t me!”

The potbellied cookie-jar was stranded sideways on the kitchen floor amidst small mountains of spilled cookies in various states of broken. The jar’s lid wobbled under a chair a few feet away.

I looked at the small face, cherubic auburn curls surrounding dimpled cheeks. The forcefulness of the denial belied the crumbs around the lips, the sticky hands, the guilty blue-gray eyes.

“It wasn’t, eh?” I worked to keep my eyebrows in line.

The preschooler squirmed but didn’t fold. She shook her head emphatically, looked around, and tapped her lower lip with a (suspiciously chocolatey) finger.

An idea dawned into her face and she pointed said finger at the aquarium where three goldfish lazed. “They did it!”

My eyebrows escaped. “The fish?!”

A wholehearted nod. She was warming to the thought. “Yeah! They don’t like fish food every day every day anymore … and … and … it the fish birthday …” she swung her finger from one idle swimmer to the next. “Um, this one! See? He didn’t even want fish food for his birthday!”

(Thank you, A.J.!)

For The Daily Post