Fantasy, Poem

Smiling Girls & Rosy Boys

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #426
using the word β€˜plethora’;
in exactly 67 words, this is my take.

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Fantasy, Flash, Very Short Story

Like Magic!

Written for Esther’s β€œCan You Tell A Story In…..?
#297”
– exactly 41 words using the five required
prompts: β€˜balloon’, β€˜fancy’, β€˜trance’, β€˜satchel’,
and β€˜monkey’. Also for Gerry & Sue’s Weekly
Prompts The One Day Prompt #15
.
Here’s where my thoughts went.

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Fantasy, Flash, Short Story, Very Short Story

Fortunate Son

Our gracious host, Rochelle,
encourages us to be creative
by writing a story in 100 words
or less using the photo prompt
below. This is Friday Fictioneers
and this is my 100 word story.

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Fantasy, Flash, Sci-Fi, Very Short Story

X-70

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #137
– β€˜fate’ – and for Only Murders In
My Mind Weekly Writing Prompt #60
using the
 photo below for inspiration. This is my story.

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Fantasy, Flash

The Cure-All

Written for Esther’s β€œCan You Tell A Story In…..?
#282”
– exactly 28 words using the three
required prompts: β€˜bedraggled’, β€˜mask’, and
β€˜vodka’. In 28 words, this is my story.

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Fantasy, Flash, Very Short Story

The Name Of The Game

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
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.

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Fantasy, Short Story

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Written for The Unicorn Challenge where we
are urged to get creative in 250 words or less. The
photo below is our inspiration and this is my story.

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Fantasy, Poem

Take Me Back Home Now

Written for dVerse Poets Tuesday Poetics:
The Opticians Words
where the challenge is
to use one or two or more sets of words in a poem
in the order in which they appear. This is my poem
.

One summer I took his name.
β€œThis means you are mine
and I am yours” he sighed as
we arose from the cold, damp floor.
I stepped nearer for him to remove
my veil and stared into his glistening
indigo eyes, blue-black like the crow.
Grazing his mouth with mine,
lips barely touching, I murmured
β€œTake me back home now, my love,
to our wedding bed
in the caves by the sea.
Read sonnets and verses to me
as waves churn and cream
against the ocean’s shore.”

NARΒ©2025

This is β€œWhite Wedding” by Billy Idol

The prompt words:
nose – one – cause – even
were – crone – our – summer
name – use – means – arose
near – can – remove – sure
crowverse – see – renew
assume – once- van – sum
aware – caves – sea – cream

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Fantasy, Short Story

A Formula For Disaster

This is a story I wrote a few years ago.
Some of you have read it; many have not.
I revamped it and hope you enjoy the read.
Graphic created by Kevin @ The Beginning At Last.

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