“You’ll be in the soup if you go out in this” she said, “it’s a real pea-souper.” I carried on stirring, I wasn’t thinking of going out anyway. I have to keep stirring or I’ll be in the soup, that’s what my saucepan says. And I listen to her as I peer through the fog … Continue reading The Haunted Saucepan – Lynn White
I am revisiting a favorite set of daily writing prompts inspired by the fabulous- and informative- book Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction this month. Revisiting these prompts gives me the opportunity to reshare the diverse and ingenuous responses I received the first time I ran the challenge in 2019, and will … Continue reading Daily Writing Prompt: The Haunted Saucepan – Margery Lawrence
the sauce pan simply refused to do it’s job she bought it because she liked the color but every time she tried to use it no matter what ingredients she put into it she always got the same results she tried to make a thick hearty vegetarian stew dicing vegetables all morning long but hours … Continue reading The Haunted Saucepan – Georgiann Carlson
Except for the dark eyes Albino white Hair like bleached silk Robed all in white Almost invisible In the white room Lit to cast no shadows Seeming to float within it The visitor disarmed and A bit disoriented, on The edge of vertigo Knows there is a test Before the question They come to ask … Continue reading White As Snow – Robert G. Wertzler
Clearly, that saucepan has to be haunted. Nothing I tried to cook in it turned out right. Sometimes it burned, or came out under cooked, or just somehow wrong. Put it on a low flame and in minutes the food was charcoal. On a high flame it could refuse to boil. So, I tried to … Continue reading The Haunted Saucepan – Robert G. Wertzler
Except for the dark eyes Albino white Hair like bleached silk Robed all in white Almost invisible In the white room Lit to cast no shadows Seeming to float within it The visitor disarmed and A bit disoriented, on The edge of vertigo Knows there is a test Before the question They come to ask … Continue reading White As Snow – Robert G. Wertzler
Brave & Reckless 