Category: Story Telling

Our prompt this week was to take a portrait that shows who others think we are. I was intrigued by this, because I consider myself to be a pretty private person. I wouldn’t take a plain selfie or portrait given this prompt; instead, I wanted to go more experimental showing bits and pieces of me…

Since we’re staying at home much more often than before, our cat, Snickers, has been seeing a lot more of us. I don’t think she’s exactly psyched about it, but there was a weekend that my parents went on a trip and she kept sitting back the window. It’s been getting hotter, too, so she’s…

It’s crazy how much the weather changes in March. One day it’ll be pouring down like nobody’s business, and the next, it’ll be a sunny clear afternoon. I missed a lot of the storms this month, but I noticed this cool swirling around the sun on what was otherwise a bright and sunny day, and…

The dame had all eyes on her from the moment she walked in the door. A deputy’s newspaper fluttered to the ground as he stammered out, “You-you’re not supposed to be-“ Rather than acknowledging him, she strode over to my desk. “You the cop they say can solve anything?” “Maybe so.” I looked up from…

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My grandparents live in a gated neighborhood practically on the water in Half Moon Bay. We used to visit them for holidays and various reunions, and would often take walks on cliffs above the beach to chat and catch up. One of my favorite parts of that hike was the small field a little ways…

I can’t recall who made these magnets for our family, but they’ve been on a file cabinet in the office for as long as I can remember. It’s been ages since our family’s been all together like the gatherings in the photos, especially after the death of my grandmother on my mom’s side (shown in…

My mom found these old license plates at the top of a box in our garage. She moved around a lot when she was my age, getting her driver’s license in Georgia, then moving and getting a new car in Virginia. It was a super cool find, and I put them up on my wall…

There’s a small mirror on top of the shoe-bin in the front room of my house. The wooden panelling looks a bit like bars in a jail cell. I’ve been avoiding looking in the mirror lately since everything’s been very drab and boring, including me. I’ve become trapped in mundanity, a feeling encapsulated every time…

I’ve been taking a lot more walks recently since it’s hard to get regular exercise with the shelter-in-place. As such, I’ve seen a lot of my neighbors walking around with their kids or playing basketball in their front yards. I knew that this would be a good subject for this week’s photo challenge, but I…