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

Smoke Tells All

Written for TN Kerr’s Writing Prompts and Practice
and for three Fandango FOWC prompts, including
’silk’, ‘sentimental’, & ‘impractical’; TN’s prompts
are shown below. Here’s where they took me.

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Mystery, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

The Last Step

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter,
inspired by Fan’s line prompt and a photo by
Dan Antion. Here’s where the prompts took me

a fictionalized account of a true murder story.

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Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

L’acqua Scorre (The Water Flows)

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts –
The One Day Prompt
. I have also borrowed
three prompts from TN Kerr’s OLWG #391,
and the reflective image from my amici at
Blog 57. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Memories of Water

Written for “It’s Story Time” where Jolene
has given us four prompts to work with.
They are shown below; here’s where they took me.

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Mystery, Noir, Phrase Prompt, Recurring Character, Short Story, Writing Prompts

The Big Lie: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #241 –
“The detective was sure the handwritten
confession was fake. Now all he had to do
was prove it”.
Here’s my response.

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Haibun, Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Writing Prompts

Azzurro Cielo: A Haibun

Written for Missy’s Mad Challenge.
I was inspired by the image I borrowed

from my amici at blog 57. Missy’s prompt
appears below. Here’s where the prompts 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: “Anger is what we feel when
we’re helpless” from ‘Cilka’s Journey’ by
Heather Morris. This is my response.

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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, Theme Prompt, Literary Quote, Phrase 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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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: “Publication – is
the Auction of the Mind”
. Here’s my response.

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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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Literary Quote, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

Simon’s Burden

Written for Violet’s Literary Quote Challenge
where she asks us to include the following line
into our writing: “Nature was continuing its
march, indifferent to human suffering” from
‘The Glassmaker’ by Tracy Chevalier. Here’s my take.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Writing Prompts

Picnic

Written for Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts –
The One Day Prompt
. The image is courtesy of
Crispina Kemp’s Picture Post Sunday; I have

included her original photo caption into the body
of my story. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

The Last Ride

Written for “It’s Story Time” where Jolene
has given us four prompts to work with. Also
written for FSS including an opening line from
Fandango’s Story Starter. All the prompts are
shown below; here’s where they took me.

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

RDP Tuesday: hissy fit

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the phrase “hissy fit”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Scene We Never Shot

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #239 –
“It started with a chance meeting on a film-set” –
and for Missy’s MAD Challenge #085 where the theme is
“A memory you’ve never had suddenly becomes
vivid and real”.  Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Grafton

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #237.
The image I used is courtesy of  Brian Dodd at
Bushboys World. Please check out his amazing
site. Here’s my story with Fan’s prompt line.

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Flash, Mini Story, Phrase Prompt, Theme Prompt, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Last Straw

Written for Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts –
The One Day Prompt
and for Sammi’s
Weekend Writing Prompt where we’re asked to
get creative in exactly 100 words using the prompt
word ‘defenestration’. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Adventure, Fantasy, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Exercise, Writing Prompts

Among the Roses

Written for TN Kerr’s Writing Prompts
and Practice
; the prompts are shown
below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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

Pyromancer’s Confession

Written for Poetics Tuesday: “Beginnings Are Endings”,
hosted by Punam, who has asked us to write a poem,
taking the opening line of a well-known piece and
using it as the last line of our poem. This is my response.

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Flash, Mini Story, Phrase Prompt, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Look Of Love

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter.
Here’s my story, using Fan’s prompt line:

It had never entered Richard’s mind that his son
was not his own blood.

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Mystery, Phrase Prompt, Short Story

The Color Of Lies: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Violet’s Literary Quote Challenge
where she asks us to include the following line
into our writing: “Things need not have
happened to be true
.” Here’s my response.

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Mystery, Phrase Prompt, Short Story

Reconstruction

Written for Jolene’s It’s Story Time.
The prompts are shown below;
here’s where they took me.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt

Night Watch

Inspired by an image I saw on Lois’
page, I’ve used three of TN Kerr’s
prompts to help tell my story.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Micro Story, Phrase Prompt, Word Prompt

Free Bird

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#453
where we’re asked to get creative in
exactly 43 words using the word ‘mourn’.
Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts –
The One Day Prompt
. Here’s my take.

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Mini Story, Phrase Prompt

Perks Of The Job

Inspired by TN Kerr’s prompts which are
shown below. I chose to allude to the
prompts and not use them as written.
Here’s where the inspiration took me.

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Informative, Phrase Prompt, Theme Prompt

Drive: Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #317
“You May Be Right”. Here’s my response.

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