Warrior

She wore ash on her face from fighting the hundred acre fire. It was a badge of courage. Once she was afraid to leave her house alone.

© 2011, Elizabeth Glixman

Mystery

He came to a clearing in the woods. The fire was gone from the pit. In the hot ash was the ring he gave her before she disappeared.

© 2011, Elizabeth Glixman

Portraits of the Moon

I mixed your ashes into paintings I was preparing for my next show; a great success, I am pleased to report, and they never found the body.

© 2011, Nathalie Boisard-Beudin

Famous

I was scared as the car became a sizzling snow fort under the volcano’s ash, but the talk show appearances later were fun.

© 2011, S. Kay

D(ash)

That day, on his walk, he took in sights and (l)inks of meaning;
pondered (r)egrets, (c)ash value, choices of l(if)estyle.

© 2011, Dorothee Lang
companion story to Karyn Eisler’s “Tr(ash)”