Looking through my early stories, I found one from 2017,
my first year on WordPress, with only 4 likes and no comments;
I thought I’d give it another shot. Any similarity between the MC
and yours truly is very much intended. I hope you enjoy Lamb Stew.
Author: Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬
Daughter of Sicilian immigrants, wife, mother, grammy, friend, empath, survivor, dreamer, storyteller, humorist, singer, musician, author, blogger, wannabe-poet, plant rescuer, cook, lover of good wine, food, iced cappuccino, elephants, the sea, Montauk, Sicily, movies and music, especially my beloved Beatles. ♡✒️♬
Power Trip
Written for “Can You Tell A Story In…” –
Esther asks: “Can you tell a story in 23 words?”
We must use these three words in what we write:
‘quinoa’, ‘ferret’, and ‘thwart’. Here’s my 23 word story.
Man, It’s A Hot One
Written for Song Lyric Sunday. This week Jim Adams
has asked his readers in his post “Songs That Matter” to write
about a song that won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Today’s gorgeous graphic was created by Kevin @
No Theme Thursday. Here’s my musical choice.
Seeing Red
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #390
incorporating the word “diamond” in exactly 19 words
and based on a true event I’ll never forget. Here’s my flash.
L’enfant aux Cymbales: The Concluding Story of Harvey and Fiona
Written for The Unicorn Challenge where we are
asked to get creative in 250 words or less using
the photo below as inspiration. This is my story.
Welcome To My World
Written for “Share Your World” where
Di has asked the following questions:
The Continuing Adventures of George and Martha, Vol. 5: Child’s Play
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Enough’s Enough
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #111.
This week’s prompt word is “believe”. Here is my 6 word story.
Dinner Date
Esther asks: “Can You Tell A Story In….?” This week’s challenge
is to include the words “dentist”, “elegant”, “trout” and “pocket”
in a story of exactly 30 words. Here’s my 30 word story.
In Prescious Moments Of Lucidity: A Haibun
Written for d’Verse Poets where our inspiration
today is “reflection”. Here is my haibun.
Confessions Of An Online Shopper
Written in response to John Holton’s
This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts,
based on the prompt word “shopping”. Here’s my story.
White Soul At Half-Speed
This is Week 46 of Glyn’s Mixed Music Bag and we are
being asked to choose a song by a group or solo artist whose
name begins with the letters U, V or W. This is my choice.
Paying the Price
It’s time for a “Full Frontal Fandango Flash”!
Written for the following Fandango challenges:
FOWC 11/6 (cottage), FOWC 11/7 (participate),
FOWC 11/8 (initiative) and FOWC 11/9 (implicit).
Here is my Fandango One-Word Challenge4 flash.
Four Letter Words
Written for d’Verse Quadrille #212 – “What the What”,
where the challenge is to write a poem in exactly 44 words
with the word “what” as inspiration. This is my quadrille.
Shot At Dawn
Today is November 11th, Veteran’s Day in the United States. For much of the rest of the world and especially in Europe, it is Armistice Day, the day that marks the end of World War I. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when the armistice was signed, over 20 million people had lost their lives.
I am honored to present to you a guest post by my friend, Paul Griffiths – The Birkenhead Poet. Dedicated to the young boys who lost their lives, Paul calls it “Shot At Dawn”; I call it perfection.
Golden Boy
Last week the three prompts from aooga at OLWG #390 were
1) I can’t touch the ground; 2) a bar that’ll give me credit and
3) haunted wind chimes. Using two of Kevin’s fabulous images
from No Theme Thursday for further inspiration, this is my story.
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
Written for Song Lyric Sunday. This week Jim Adams has asked
his readers in his post ‘Most Prestigious Award Category’ to write about
a song from an album that won a Grammy Award for ‘Album of the
Year’. My choice today is “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
from the Beatles’ Grammy Award-winning album of the same name.
Slim Pickings
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #389
incorporating the word “hunter” in exactly 99 words.
Also responding to Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts
Wednesday Challenge (“duplicity”) and Sue & Gerry’s
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge (“method”).
For further inspiration, I am using one of the amazing
graphic prompts created by Kevin at No Theme Thursday.
Here is my 99 word flash.
Getting To Know Me – 11.9.24
Written for Kymber Hawke’s Get To Know You, This or That #40.
Here are her three question and my three answers.
A Sudden Slip Of The Tongue
Written for The Unicorn Challenge where we are
asked to get creative in 250 words or less using
the photo below as inspiration. This is my story.
Lucy Update
Psalm 23 Redux ~ A Dectina Refrain
This is my response to Sadje’s
What Do You See #261 prompt.
Selling Point
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
She’s Back!
Lost Cat
Dare To Dream: An Ovi Poem
Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge 73.
Our inspiration word is “dare”
and this is my ovi.
A Long Hot Soak
Written for Wordle #679,
using the 12 prompts below.
Here is my story.
sighs ・ fire ・ flip ・ ravaged ・ blue ・ floor ・
emerge ・ masks ・ ashes ・ soak ・ skin ・ weave
Feeling Lucky
Written for Sammi’s Weekly Writing Prompt #388
in exactly 21 words and incorporating the word “dark”
and for Sue W & Gerry C’s Weekly Prompts Colour
Challenge using the word “grey”. Here is my flash.
Gypsies, Demons and Wizards, Oh My!
This is Week 45 of Glyn’s Mixed Music Bag and we are
asked to choose a song by a group or solo artist whose
name begins with the letters U, V or W. This is my choice.
Beautiful Boy
Written for d’Verse Prosery where the challenge is to write
a piece of flash fiction of no more than 144 words that includes
the following quotation from “Out Of The Cradle” by Walt Whitman:
“Out of the Ninth-month midnight”. This is my flash.
The Elephant's Trunk 