Welcome to My World
from The Elephant Roars
“No one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room except for the children who would talk of nothing else.”
I live in a tiny house…
high on a hilltop…
with two tiny dogs, Dixie and Miss Pickles…
and, Levi, who does not live in the tiny house
These are my tiny neighbors, compared to their full-grown moms anyway…
This is my tiny office in the tiny house…
And at the end of a long day writing tiny tales, this is how I like to relax…
Jayne Martin is a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions nominee, and a recipient of Vestal Review’s VERA award. Work in New Flash Fiction Review, Spelk, Crack the Spine, Midwestern Gothic, Barren, MoonPark Review, Blink-Ink, and Bending Genres among others. She is also the author of Suitable for Giving: A Collection of Wit with a Side of Wry, a collection of humor essays. Her TV-movie writing credits include Big Spender for Animal Planet, and A Child Too Many, Cradle of Conspiracy, and Deceived by Trust for Lifetime. She lives in California, where she rides horses and drinks copious amounts of fine wines, though not at the same time. Find her on Twitter @Jayne_Martin, Facebook, and Instagram.
from Family Time
“My fathers fury thunders down upon us as we cower on the cracked and cold linoleum floor. He says he is going to kill us, but it is our terror he most enjoys.”