Daisy Chain, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Blues in the Night: A Daisy Chain

Written for Bartholomewโ€™s Living Poetry
where we are asked to write a poem using
the words ‘black’, ‘govern’, and ‘solstice’.
Hereโ€™s where the prompt took me.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

What the Walls Kept Out: An Impossible Situation

Written for Great Minds Think Friday Challenge
where Rohini presents โ€œAn Impossible Situation:
Everyone hears their ancestors voices for a dayโ€.
My story is about the brother I never got to know.

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Musing, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Coulda Been A Sonnet (If I’d Had More Words)

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly 33
words using the prompt word โ€˜solitudeโ€™ and for
Sue & Gerryโ€™s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
‘leisurely’. Hereโ€™s where the prompts took me.

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Music Blog, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Lean On Me: Song Lyric Sunday

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
โ€œRecipe For Successโ€

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Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

On A Wet Afternoon

Written for Weaโ€™ve Written Weekly.
Our PoW this week is Artie who has
suggested prompt lines for our poem.
Hereโ€™s where the prompts took me.

โ€œmy delicious walk in the rainโ€
โ€œwhat it is that music is trying to sayโ€

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

Bellying Up: A SenHai

Written for SenHai Saturday where our host,
Susi, asks us to write a senryu and haiku using
the image shown below as inspiration.
Hereโ€™s where the image took me.

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Continuing Series, Free Verse, Photo Prompt, Poetry

Slow Embrace: The Endurance Speaks – Old Steam Ships, #3

Inspired by a new blog called โ€˜Old Steam Shipsโ€™
by our friend, Max, I have written a poem in
the voice of the Arctic Ship SS Endurance.

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American Cinquain, Photo Prompt, Poetry, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

White Rose: American Cinquain

Written for Crimsonโ€™s Creative Challenge.
Hereโ€™s where Crispinaโ€™s image took me.

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Literary Quote, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Porch Talk

Written for Violetโ€™s Literary Quote Challenge.
I have combined two quotes into one piece;
They are shown below. This is my story.

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Haiku, Photo Prompt, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Late Spring Storms: Friday Haiku

Written for Haiku Fridays with J-Dub.
My haiku and image inspired by Jill.

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Last Ride

Written for โ€œItโ€™s Story Timeโ€ where Jolene
has given us four prompts to work with.
They are shown below; hereโ€™s where they took me.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

A Revolting Development

Written for Melissaโ€™s Fandango Flash Fiction
Challenge
using the image for inspiration.
Hereโ€™s where the image took me.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Waiting For The Dance

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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Short Story, Song, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Pinotage: A Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #327 โ€“
โ€œLove Is Like Oxygenโ€. Hereโ€™s my response.

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Poetry, Shadorma, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Waiting Game

Written for Living Poetry where
Bartholomew asks us to write
a poem with the theme ‘patient’.
Hereโ€™s where the prompt took me.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

la luna e il lupo

Written for dVerse Poetโ€™s Pub โ€“ Unpunctuated,
where our host, Melissa, asks us to write a poem
sans punctuation. Hereโ€™s where the prompt took me.

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Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Prose, Short Prose, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Into the Arroyos: In the Style of Jack Kerouac

Written for dVerse Prosery: A View from the Hills.
Our host, Sanaa, asks us to write a piece of prosery

of up to 144 words, including the line shown below.
This is where the prompt took me.

โ€œThe hills so dry, so dense the underbrush, that
where I pushed my way the giant hush was changed
to soft explosions.โ€ From the poem โ€œOn a View of
Pasadena from the Hillsโ€ by Yvor Winters.

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

RDP Wednesday: foliage

Written for RDP, where segoil asks us
ย to get creative with the word โ€œfoliageโ€.
Thanks, Heather! Hereโ€™s where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story, Noir, Original Series, Recurring Character, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Big Pretender: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her words for this week are
shown below. Hereโ€™s where they took me.

tolls ~ spell ~ inclined ~ mind ~ find ~ pretending
sigh ~
hit ~ guilty ~ fine ~ fault ~ liarย 

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Haibun, Photo Prompt, Poetry, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

From The Other Side

Written for Sadjeโ€™s What Do You See.
Hereโ€™s where the image took me.

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

Black On Black

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

crow ~ window ~ near ~ time ~ expect ~ flight
message ~ begin ~ stars ~ regret ~ smart ~ dark

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Shadorma, Theme Prompt, Poetry, Writing Prompts, Writing Challenge

Montauk: At the Edge of Everything

Written for Tanka Tuesday where Yvette
asks us to write a syllabic poem based on the theme

“It’s Vacation Time!” This is my shadorma.

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Short Story

The Weight of Silence

Story inspired by a photo by Crispina Kemp.
I created the plot based on true characters.

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Limerick, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Slippity Doo Dah!

Written for Estherโ€™s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word is
โ€˜jellyโ€™. Hereโ€™s where the prompt took me.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Missing Her

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing Prompt where
she asks us to get creative in exactly 50 words using
the word โ€˜abacus’ and for Sue & Gerryโ€™s

Weekly Prompts โ€“ Colour Challenge – blue
Hereโ€™s where the prompts took me.

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

The Space She Left Behind: A Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #326 โ€“
โ€œTo Love Somebodyโ€. Hereโ€™s my response.

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Fantasy, Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Forgotten Door

Written for Crimsonโ€™s Creative Challenge.
Hereโ€™s where Crispinaโ€™s image took me.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

High Wire

Written for Estherโ€™s โ€œCan You Tell A Story Inโ€
exactly 52 words using the prompt words shown
below. Hereโ€™s where the prompts took me.

tightrope ~ gothic ~ squeamish ~ mannequin ~ violin

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

Unread Message

Written for SenHai Saturday where our host,
Susi asks us to write a senryu and haiku using
the image shown below as inspiration.
Hereโ€™s where the image took me.

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Music Blog, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

There Be Zombies About!

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
โ€œQueen of the Godsโ€
This is my response to the challenge.

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