Short Story

Into The Woods

Written for Melissa’s Fandango  
Flash Fiction Challenge – #337
.
Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Free Verse, Poem

Invisible

Written for dVerse Poets – Don’t Shoot The Messenger;
or Tolstoy’s Birthday
. Our host Melissa from Mom With A Blog
invites us to choose one of the quotes from a work by

Leo Tolstoy that resonates with us and write a poem
about the time(s) our actions aligned with the chosen quote.
This is the Tolstoy quote I used with my poem following.

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Flash, Mini Story

Date Night With The Ricardos

Written for Esther’s Can You Tell A Story In – #303
in exactly 49 words using these five prompt
words: β€˜rose’, β€˜frazzle’, β€˜medal’, ‘charge’, and β€˜prune’.
In 49 words, here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Micro Story

Fait Accompli

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #150
– incorporating the word β€˜history’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Poem, Quadrille

So Very Proper

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #231 –
β€œMaking Much Of Poems”
. Our host De Jackson
invites us to write a poem in exactly 44 words,
incorporating the word ‘much’ or a form of the word.
This is my quadrille.

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Short Story

Ewe Gotta Be Kidding Me!

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #50-2
. I chose Pic #2.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

Gentoo penguins propose to
their life mates with a pebble.

It really is all about the rock!

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Music Blog

Success: It Don’t Come Easy

Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
Inescapable Concept of Time.
Here’s how the theme inspired me.

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Short Story

City In Ruins

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt #73
and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story

Beneath The Surface

Written for Melissa’s Fandango
Flash Fiction Challenge – #336
.
Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Short Story

Goo Goo G’Joob

Written for Muse On Monday where David asks us
to write a story based on a fairy tale. Also for
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts – The One Day Prompt.
Originally written in 2018, I couldn’t resist a repeat;
I hope you enjoy my story of Humpty Dumpty.

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Musette, Poem

Go Gently: A Musette For Jim

Originally written in April, 2024 after the
sudden death of my husband’s identical twin,
I have brought this back for Reena’s Xploration
Challenge #397 – Creative Experiments and More
.

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Flash, Mini Story

Uncle Bobby: The Sighting

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. Here’s where the photo took me.

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Cinquain, Poem

Night Music

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #16
where our inspiration word is β€œbelieve”.
Also written for dVerse Poets MTB:
Cinquains Revisited
. I have written a
Β Mirror Cinquain, a 10-line, single stanza poem
with a syllable pattern of 2–4–6–8–2–8–6–4–2.

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Music Blog

What Do You Want?

Written for Thursday Inspiration #296 –
β€œWith A Girl LikeYou
”. Here’s my take.

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Short Story

That Old Rockin’ Chair’s Got Me

Written for Mark’s Today’s Writing Practice #9
where we’re given photo and written prompts.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Poem

Transformation

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt
#74 and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Uncategorized

Sitting In Judgement

Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt #431
asks us to be creative with the word β€œcromulent”
in exactly 45 words. Maybe this image from Christine at
Simply 6 Minutes will be my inspiration. Here’s my story.

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Music Blog

Sealed With A Kiss

This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my September artist and his song.

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Flash, Micro Story

In Your Face

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #149
– incorporating the word β€˜life’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Limerick, Poem

Seraphina & Mick

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #247
. Using the prompt
wordΒ  β€˜spell’, this is my limerick.

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Uncategorized

Unanswerable Questions

A little holiday fun!

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Flash, Micro Story

Bait And Switch

Written for Esther’s Can You Tell A Story In – #302
in exactly 35 words using these four prompt
words: β€˜coupon’, β€˜lake’, β€˜puppet’, and β€˜tuba’.
In 35 words, here’s where the prompts took me.

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Music Blog

Everybody Knows

Written for Song Lyric Sunday where
today’s theme is philosophical songs.
Here’s how the theme inspired me.

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Musing, Short Story

Hold On Tight

Written for Muse on Monday where David asks us
to write a story from the perspective of a blind person.

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Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

What was the first toy advertised on TV? 

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Short Story

Tomorrow Never Knows

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #303.
Some of you have read this, originally written
several years ago as I recounted a true story
about events experienced by me in the hospital

after surgery. The hallucinations were
very real and I remember every detail.

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Poem

When The Storm Rolls In

Written for Esther’s Writing Prompts #80
incorporating the word β€œstrike”, and for the

image from Mark @ Today’s Writing Practice.
Here’s where the prompts led me.

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Poem

Nature’s Chain

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s
Creative Challenge #049
. I chose pic #4
Here’s where the image took me.

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Flash, Mini Story

The Boyfriend

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. Here’s where the photo took me.

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