Flash

Power Trip

Written for “Can You Tell A Story In…”
Esther asks: โ€œCan you tell a story in 23 words?โ€
We must use these three words in what we write:
โ€˜quinoaโ€™, โ€˜ferretโ€™, and โ€˜thwartโ€™. Hereโ€™s my 23 word story.

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Music Blog

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.
Todayโ€™s gorgeous graphic was created by
Kevin @
No Theme Thursday. Here’s my musical choice.

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Flash

Seeing Red

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing Prompt #390
incorporating the word โ€œdiamondโ€ in exactly 19 words
and based on a true event Iโ€™ll never forget. Hereโ€™s my flash.

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Short Story

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.

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Uncategorized

Welcome To My World

Written for “Share Your World” where
Di has asked the following questions:

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Flash

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.

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Flash

Enough’s Enough

Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #111.
This weekโ€™s prompt word is โ€œbelieveโ€. Here is my 6 word story.

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Flash

Dinner Date

Esther asks: โ€œCan 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. ย Hereโ€™s my 30 word story.

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Haibun

In Prescious Moments Of Lucidity: A Haibun

Written for dโ€™Verse Poets where our inspiration
today is โ€œreflectionโ€. Here is my haibun.

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Short Story

Confessions Of An Online Shopper

Written in response to John Holtonโ€™s
This Week’s Writerโ€™s Workshop Prompts,
based on the prompt word โ€œshoppingโ€. Hereโ€™s my story.

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Music Blog

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.

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Flash

Paying the Price

Itโ€™s time for a โ€œFull Frontal Fandango Flashโ€!
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.

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Quadrille

Four Letter Words

Written for dโ€™Verse Quadrille #212 โ€“ โ€œWhat the Whatโ€,
where the challenge is to write a poem in exactly 44 words
with the word โ€œwhatโ€ as inspiration. This is my quadrille.

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Poem

Shot At Dawn

Today is November 11th, Veteranโ€™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 inย 1918ย when the armistice was signed, over 20ย million people hadย lost their lives.
I am honored to present to you a guest post by my friend, Paul Griffiths โ€“ The Birkenhead Poet. Dedicated to the young boys who lost their lives, Paul calls it โ€œShot At Dawnโ€; I call it perfection.

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Short Story

Golden Boy

Last week the three prompts from aooga at OLWG #390 were
1) I canโ€™t touch the ground; 2) a bar thatโ€™ll give me credit and
3) haunted wind chimes. Using two of Kevinโ€™s fabulous images
from No Theme Thursday for further inspiration, this is my story.

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Music Blog

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 โ€œSgt. Pepperโ€™s Lonely Hearts Club Bandโ€
from the Beatlesโ€™ Grammy Award-winning album of the same name.

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Flash

Slim Pickings

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing Prompt #389
incorporating the word โ€œhunterโ€ in exactly 99 words.
Also responding to Gerry & Sueโ€™s Weekly Prompts
Wednesday Challenge
(โ€œduplicityโ€) and Sue & Gerryโ€™s
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge (โ€œmethodโ€).
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.

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Miscellaneous

Getting To Know Me – 11.9.24

Written for Kymber Hawkeโ€™s Get To Know You, This or That #40.
Here are her three question and my three answers.

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Short Story

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.

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Miscellaneous

Lucy Update

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Dectina Refrain

Psalm 23 Redux ~ A Dectina Refrain

This is my response to Sadje’s
What Do You See #261 prompt.

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Flash

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.

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Uncategorized

She’s Back!

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Uncategorized

Lost Cat

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Ovi Poem

Dare To Dream: An Ovi Poem

Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge 73.
Our inspiration word is โ€œdareโ€
and this is my ovi.

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Short Story

A Long Hot Soak

Written for Wordle #679,
using the 12 prompts below.
Here is my story.

sighs ใƒป fire ใƒป flip ใƒป ravaged ใƒป blue ใƒป floor ใƒป
emerge ใƒป masks ใƒป ashes ใƒป  soak ใƒป skin ใƒป weave

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Flash

Feeling Lucky

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekly Writing Prompt #388
in exactly 21 words and incorporating the word โ€œdarkโ€
and for Sue W & Gerry Cโ€™s Weekly Prompts Colour
Challenge
using the word โ€œgreyโ€. Here is my flash.

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Music Blog

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.

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Flash, Prose

Beautiful Boy

Written for dโ€™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 โ€œOut Of The Cradleโ€ by Walt Whitman:
โ€œOut of the Ninth-month midnightโ€. This is my flash
.

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Uncategorized

The E.D. Blues

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