Mystery, Noir, Recurring Character, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Big Affair: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
our prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

huge, proper, colleague, space, alone, try,
force,
tremble, fear, laughter, serious, hard

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Poetry, Tanka, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Same Day, Different Years

Written for Tanka Tuesday where our host,
Yvette, has asked us to write a syllabic poem
of our choosing on the subject of sisterly love.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

Beneath the Southern Cross: Love in the Outback

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle . Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

rifle, grass, flush, steam, radiance, beetle,
perfume, drifted, swaying, hypnotic, hiss, and skin

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Informative, Trivia, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Tuesday: pogonip

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
Β to get creative with the word β€œpogonip”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Literary Quote, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

Emergency Room

Written for Violet’s Literary Quote Challenge
where she asks us to include the following line
into our writing: β€œAnger is what we feel when
we’re helpless” from β€˜Cilka’s Journey’ by
Heather Morris. This is my response.

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Tick Tock

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word
is β€˜box’ and this is my limerick.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Race

Written for Esther’s β€œCan You Tell A Story In”
exactly 64 words using the six prompt words
shown below. In 64 words, here’s my flash.

microphone – zeal – snail – cottage – immortal – teapot

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

The Missus

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter
and TN’s OLWG #411; all the prompts are
shown below. Here’s where they took me.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Mairzy Doats

Written for Crispina’s Sunday Picture Post –
To The North. Here’s where the image took me.

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Haiku, Photo Prompt, Poetry, SenHai, Senryu, Writing Prompts

Shifting Sands: A SenHai

Written for SenHai Saturday where our
host Susi asks us to write a senryu and
a haiku using the image shown below
as inspiration. Here’s my response.

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Sundaying of Sundayness

Written for David’s Wea’ve Written Weekly
where our PoW, Sally, asks us to write a
poem in the style of an author we admire.
Thanks for the inspiration, Sally & David!
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Music Blog, Song, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Family Matters

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
β€œYou Can’t Pick Your Relatives”
This is my response to the challenge.

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Literary Quote, Mini Story, Phrase Prompt, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Shortness of Self

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
to write a story, poem, etc., inspired by
a line from Ayn Rand’s “We the Living”.

Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Continuing Story, Original Series, Recurring Character, Short Story

Housecalls – Part 6: Unknown Memories

For a refresher, you can read Part 5 HERE.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Nobu Hotel

Written for Sadje’s β€œWhat Do You See”.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Blah….Blah….Blah

Written for Muse On Monday. David has
asked us to write a story where the characters
cannot communicate through language.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Friday: calorie

Written for RDP where Lou asks us to
get creative with the word β€œcalorie”.
Thanks, Lou! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts, Zuihitsi

Simple Interruptions

Written for dVerse MTB: Zuihitsi – Following the Brush.
Our host, Merril, invites us to write a Japanese hybrid
form of poetry. This 10th century poem style is new to
dVerse; this is my first attempt at writing Zuihitsu .

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Breakfast Club

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.
This is where the prompt took me.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Where Does Love Go?

Written for dVerse Poetics – Where does love go?
Our host, Kim, invites us to write a poem, taking
the title from the question, β€œWhere does love go?”
Here’s where the prompt took me .

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

8:47 To Great Yarmouth

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
I chose Pic #3. Here’s where the image took me.

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Biolet, Photo Prompt, Poetry, Writing Prompts

Sunday Morning, Windowsill: A Biolet

Written for Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction
Challenge
using the image shown below for our
inspiration. Here’s where the image took me.

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Limerick, Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Brain Freeze: A Limerick

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word
is β€˜scream’ and this is my limerick.

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Tricube, Writing Prompts

Empty House: A Tricube

Written for Tanka Tuesday where our host, Willow,
has asked us to write a tricube poem on a specific
moment in the day. Here’s my response.

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Informative

How Lovely!

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Short Story, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Shape On The Water

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Β 
Weekend Challenge
– β€œinvasive”. Also for
a few of Fandango’s FOWCs and his prompt
words β€œprepared”, β€œvessel”, β€œintensify”, and
β€œovernight”. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle, Writing Exercise, Writing Prompts

Operation: Midnight Jewel – A Jackson DeWitt Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

stalk, sky, luck, harness, pepper, jewel,
ribbon, splash, layers, set, light, and face

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Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Prosery, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Threshold

Written for dVerse Prosery Pub – Publication.
where our host, Melissa, has asked us to write
a
144-word piece of prosery incorporating the lines
from Emily Dickinson’s poem: β€œPublication – is
the Auction of the Mind”
. Here’s my response.

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Informative, Micro Story, Song, Trivia, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Tuesday: solivagant

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
Β to get creative with the word β€œsolivagant”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Waltmarie, Writing Prompts

Who She Was: A Waltmarie

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge;
the image shown below with its caption was
my inspiration. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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