Hennen's Observer
  • Home
  • Writings
    • Poetry
      • Published Poetry
    • Prose
      • Published Prose
    • Culture
      • Contributor Interviews
  • Community
  • Submit
  • Shop
  • Login/Logout
  • Forums
  • Home
  • Writings
    • Poetry
      • Published Poetry
    • Prose
      • Published Prose
    • Culture
      • Contributor Interviews
  • Community
  • Submit
  • Shop
  • Login/Logout
  • Forums

Prose

Gravity

Details
Written by: Ishish
Category: Prose
Created: April 22, 2010, 9:11 am
Hits: 1808

It is cold and so is he. It has been years since his friend went but not yet.

“If I ever get cancer I will shoot myself.”

“I don’t believe you.”

He’s cold now and he was cold then. He grew up in the north but the temperature did not bother him and he felt cold inside.

Read more: Gravity

0 comments
1.8k views

A Successful Failure

Details
Written by: Randy Kohl
Category: Prose
Created: April 21, 2010, 5:28 am
Hits: 2295

     The whispers carried messages of despair and dismay.  A single word could change her mood.  She could feel the city crumbling in on itself imploding as a Red Giant folds under its own weight into a Black Hole.  The ornate architecture and steel monuments only earnest attempts to hide the insanity within.

Read more: A Successful Failure

2 comments
2.2k views

Dinner In Town

Details
Written by: DL Chance
Category: Prose
Created: April 20, 2010, 7:32 pm
Hits: 1799

   Whit and Ona Mae Willins lived all their married life together on a small spread about eight miles west of Farwell Texas.
   Farwell never had been much of a town. It started out ‘long about 1888 as a Fort Worth & Denver Railroad siding site and jerkwater stop, and immediately didn’t get much more important or noteworthy.

Read more: Dinner In Town

0 comments
1.7k views

Mommy's Colors

Details
Written by: ladyofthecanyon
Category: Prose
Created: April 20, 2010, 3:10 am
Hits: 1575

19 years and only just starting to search through mommy’s closet. Rifling desperately looking for a secret mirror window to her universe— stitched quietly in a jacket somewhere. The colors from then! From her life as a skydiver breathtaker beautiful vessel of kaleidoscope potential. I sit amidst a pile of bright reds oranges my favorite blues —as though she hand-picked the hues with me in mind before she knew my kicking form.

Read more: Mommy's Colors

0 comments
1.5k views

Gorgon, Revisited

Details
Written by: ladyofthecanyon
Category: Prose
Created: April 20, 2010, 3:03 am
Hits: 2024

Stealing past the screaming kettle

in the Gorgon’s kitchen

I sat before the oven to pray to the

domestic gods.

Leaning forward the Pacific

rushing in my ears

I nearly tumbled

into the magpies

Read more: Gorgon, Revisited

1 comment
2k views
  1. 2%
  2. To Be That Cat
  3. The Broken Window
  4. Frank Advice by Frank Sanders

Subcategories

Published & Contest Winning Prose

Page 58 of 76

  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62

Random Comments - Prose

Tsnclr
Tsnclr posted a comment in WHO I AM
I love the flow of this one, the rhythm and rhyme ...
about 14 years ago
a
a posted a comment in Queen for the Day
That was some wild stuff. Let me ask you, did you...
about 14 years ago
grunfruaorshell
grunfruaorshell posted a comment in Addict
Thank you Rian. I am very touched by your response...
about 14 years ago
ugwerks
ugwerks posted a comment in I Just Don’t Have You
Thanks, but I was thinking more "Guthrie"-esque, a...
about 15 years ago
Joshua Hennen
Joshua Hennen posted a comment in stop and dance
I love this poem. It reminds me of the opening par...
about 15 years ago
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Code of Conduct
  • Contact Us