Echo Lake Park
Skyscrapers rise
through the dusty
skies
around Echo
Lake Park.
Ripples of water collide
as children splash and
dive,
and swim to shore.
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© Rob Goldstein 2019
This is an entry for Kat Myrman’s Twittering Tales #146 – 23 July, 2019
The 10-Second Memoir
Before Prozac, I once stormed the streets of this City like a mob with conviction, like a Godzilla in search of King Kong.
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(c) Rob Goldstein 2019
This is an entry for Kat Myrman’s Twittering Tales #145 – 16 July, 2019
Grock this new story from D. Wallace Peach
photo by Sue Vincent
The beach parking lot was jammed with cars. Outside their blue rental, Samantha stretched her stiff limbs while Jeff rummaged in the back seat for snacks and towels. A tow truck clanked its chains and ground its gears in the midst of hauling away one of several abandoned vehicles, the windshields dusted with a week’s worth of windblown sand.
According to the glossy pamphlet, the rocky headlands and clustered islands sheltered turquoise waves, and the soft sand welcomed blankets and picnics. All inviting. But after days of battling crowds of tourists, the feature that most appealed to Sam was the promised solitude. Unfortunately, Tranquil Cove didn’t look like it would live up to its reputation.
She sighed and read the sign pounded into the sand at the lot’s edge. Someone had hand-scrawled a sloppy “g” on the otherwise formal warning. “Beware of the grocks. No…
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A Midnight Storm
These dark reflections.
Storm clouds gather on a
midnight tear through
San Francisco.
He wants the storm to last
forever; he wants to be
hidden and faceless: dead
without dying.
(c) Rob Goldstein 2019
162 Characters
This is an entry for Kat Myrman’s Twittering Tales #135 – 7 May 2019
For Willow.
