Lisa Barker

On Golden Pond (1981) Quotes ~ Norman: You are a pretty old dame aren’t you? What are you doing with a dotty old son of a bitch like me? Ethel: Well, I haven’t the vaguest idea. * * * Ethel Thayer: “Sometimes you have to look hard at a person, and realize he’s doing the…

(100 word challenge) Mayra sat tall in her wheelchair. Time had not healed him. “I want you to be happy.” They both stared at the finish line. “We raised a family,” she said, more to herself, to ease the pain in her heart, to prevent it from hardening against him. “Why now?” “I’m always going…

(100 word challenge) Ella opened the blinds and smiled at the mid-morning sun. Joy erupted within like a geyser. Last night was special. The first shared look, the conversation throughout the night where many commonalities revealed themselves like little advent gifts, and then the exchange of phone numbers with a promise to meet for coffee…

(100 word challenge) “Drake, I’m scared.” The forest shivered with the scuffing of walkers, their soft moaning sending a rapid angst gushing through her veins. He held her. “It’ll be all right.” Walkers couldn’t withstand the glare from the industrial lamps they had used to surround the shed. Nothing could. Yet, he feared the possibility.…

(100 word challenge) “We believe that people stick together when they make a commitment.” He curled his upper lip. When did Mom jump on that bandwagon? After Dad died? “We’re not breaking up. We’re taking a break.” “Sounds like a break up to me, Joe, and you know what the Church says about divorce!” Living…

(100 word challenge) He wakes and softly chuckles at the sight of her: hair in disarray, baggy eyes, mouth agape and drool because her teeth are in a glass on the bathroom counter. This is the woman he married 35 years ago. They’d lived together longer than they’d lived at home with their parents and…

(100 word challenge) Worn boots on a weathered table under a canopy of oak. Hot coffee. Angie joined him on the terrace. There was nothing to say. The weight of it all dampened the sun’s warmth. “You shouldn’t have called him.” “It’s time to start fresh, Hal.” “He doesn’t know me. I don’t know me.”…

(100 word challenge) Calypso. She dances in the salty wind, the sea swells beneath her feet. I fell in love with Calypso, the mistress of my soul. Yet darkness hid within her. She threw the wine glass at the hearth and it shattered. I watched as if it would magically dissolve into the black slate.…

(100 word challenge) It was a well-traveled road with detours that tested them. The journey took most of their lives. At last they crested the rise where a familiar sun greeted them. “Take my hand once again,” Sonny said, inspired. “After all we have been through.” Rae took his hand without hesitating. “I don’t understand…

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton