• Flash Fiction,  Friday 55,  G-Man,  Swan Song

    Farewell for the G-Man

    So I hear you’re going to hop on your Harley,ride off into the sunset this weekend.Doesn’t surprise me.Isn’t that what the good guys do?And you’ve earned a break.So go on and go.I won’t miss you.Sniff.Much. Cuz… you told me awhile back I could clone you.So I did.Trouble is–he can’t say,“Have a kick-ass weekend!”like You do. ~Nara 🙁 Gonna miss you, G. This is my contribution to G-Man’s Friday Flash 55. Go here to join us in saying farewell.

  • autism,  Flash Fiction,  Friday 55

    More Than or Less Than?

    Autism by hepingting on Flickr Photosharing  Age 2Diagnosis: AutisticTranslation: Less thanPrognosis: Will always need care.Oblivious of doctors, he cracked the Youtube lock on Mom’s phone. Kept hitting song replay.Lyrics: I Get You and You Get Me. Age 3Re-evaluation: GeniusTranslation: More than.Cracked code on reading/writing. Does second grade math.Mom’s phone chirps, “Oh no! Zombies ate your brains.”He giggles.They still don’t get him. ~Nara Malone This is my contribution to G-Man’s Friday 55. Drop by to see what others wrote or to join the fun yourself.

  • Blue Candy,  dVerse Meeting the Bar,  Favorite Things,  Friday 55,  Nara Malone,  Sixty-Niner Poetry

    BluCanny

    Back Then when my vocabulary was about six words longeven ahead of Outside, Kitty, NaNa, No, NoWayBluCanny was my favorite worddelivering anticipationof unwrappingcrackly cellophanehard lozengegoing liquid on my tonguementholated tingle zingslike snowflakes landingvanishing in a sparkgoing viraltongue to throatexpandingdancingin breathin heartzapping through veinscurlingtoes and hair NowYou are my blue candy. ~Nara Malone dVerse Meeting the Bar challenge tonight is to go home to the roots of our voice and language to write something that is “…uniquely you — using the words you might say to a neighbor or friend, keeping it familiar and seeking to make it distinctly you, about you, in your vernacular.” This is also my contribution to…