Cinquain, Fantasy, Poem

Fever Pitch: A Cinquain

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #27.
Our inspiration word is “blaze”.
This is my mirror cinquain.

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Fantasy, Flash, Micro Story

Whispered Secrets

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
#314
, exactly 40 words using these four prompt
words: ‘bonsai’, ‘puddle’, ‘knapsack’, and
‘rejoice’. Here’s my 61-word flash.

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Mini Story

RDP sunday: quit

Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘quit’. Thanks, Doc!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Music Blog, Short Story

The Final Threshold

Written for Violet’s Challenge where she has asked
 us to include the following phrase into our writings;
 “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next
great adventure”. Also for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday
where the challenge is to write about a song that
mentions river/stream/creek/brook. This is my story.

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Music Blog

The River Of Dreams

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
“Naturally Flowing Water”
This is my response to the challenge.

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Flash, Mini Story

RDP Saturday: variegated

Today at RDP, Punam asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘variegated’. Thanks, Punam!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Short Story, Wordle

Broken Promises

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #451.
Our prompt words this week are: banish,
sad, guilty, weak, push, cute, way, cheeky,
sweet, furry, trick, and battle. Thanks, Di!
Here’s where the prompt words took me.

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Fantasy, Limerick, Poem

Oh! My Talons Are Killing Me!

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #258
. The prompt
word is ‘scale’. This is my limerick.

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Uncategorized

Jim’s Broccoli & Cheese Casserole

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Haiku, Poem

RDP Friday: boreal

Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘boreal’. Thanks, Martha!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Flash, Mini Story

Discarded

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
encourages us to be creative by writing a story in 
100 words or less using the photo shown below.
 Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Poem

Two Tables

Today at RDP, bushboy asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘feast’. Thanks, Brian!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Fantasy

Cathedral Of Sand

Written for Sadje’s “What Do You See” #315
Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Uncategorized

It Ain’t Easy

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Music Blog

Murder Most Foul

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 November artist and his song.

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News, Uncategorized

Say Goodbye To My Little Friend

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Short Story

Gettin’ Hitched!

Written for “A Dawg’s Challenge 4 Ewe”
where Ernie has provided us with a bunch of

homonyms and invites us to get creative
using at least three of the sound-alike words.
Click the link to see the homonyms. Here’s my story.

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Flash, Mini Story, Musing

RDP Tuesday: grace

Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘grace’. Thanks, Martha!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Short Story, Wordle

The Family Way

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle – #732. Our
host is Brenda Warren and these are our words:
greed, tragedy, despair, presence, walk, calm,
strings, earth, all, spirit, vibrating, and heart.
Here’s where the prompt words took me.

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Cinquain, Poem

Winter Day

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #26.
Our inspiration word is “chill”.
This is my mirror cinquain.

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Limerick, Poem

RDP Monday: jaunty

Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘jaunty’. Thanks, Heather!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Short Story

Life’s Essential Destinations

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #060
. I chose Pic #4.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Flash, Micro Story

A Question Of Judgment

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#442
where we’re asked to be creative in
exactly 58 words using the word ‘keyboard’.

Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge
using the word ‘epic’.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Mini Story

RDP Sunday: snowflake

Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘snowflake’. Thanks, Doc!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Uncategorized

Scheherazade: Friday Faithfuls

Written in response to Friday Faithfuls:
“Once Upon A Time”. Here’s my take.

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Music Blog

A Decade Of Hits 1969-1979

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
“Most Popular Songs”.
This is my response to the challenge.

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Flash, Mini Story

Dirk Malone, PI: The Ice Princess

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
#313
, exactly 61 words using these six prompt
words: ‘baby’, ‘ice-skating’, ‘album’, ‘salad’,
‘fright’, and ‘camera’. Here’s my 61-word flash.

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Flash, Horror, Mystery, Poem, Seventies

RDP Saturday: terror

Today at RDP, Punam asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘terror’. Thanks, Punam!

Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Fantasy, Short Story

In Cecily’s Garden

Written for Muse on Monday where David asks us
to write a story with characters of vastly different
sizes. This is where the prompt took me.

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Limerick, Poem

Time Out

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #314
and Esther’s Laughing Along With A
Limerick #257
using the word ‘snacks’.
Here’s where the photo prompts took me.

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