Flash, Mini Story

Aw, Shucks!

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#434
where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
77 words using the word ‘woebegone’. Also for
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
where the prompt word is ‘imagine’’ and Fandango’s FOWC

using the word ‘weed’. Here’s where the three prompts took me.

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Cinquain, Poem

Night Music

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #16
where our inspiration word is “believe”.
Also written for dVerse Poets MTB:
Cinquains Revisited
. I have written a
 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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Short Story

Sea Shadows

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

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Dectina Refrain

Indigo Mesh: A Dectina Refrain

Written today for Eugi’s Moonwashed Weekly Prompt
where our inspiration word is ‘tangle’. This is my Dectina.

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Quadrille

Shall We Dance? (Part 2)

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #208
“Undead To The World”
.

You put your right hand in
you put your right hand out
you put your right hand in
and you shake it all about…

At this rate we’ll be here all night!

Vamp on over here, Sugar,
and give me some of that neck!

NAR©2024
44 Words

This is “The Time Warp Scene”  from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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TANGO

Their eyes met across the darkened, smoke-filled room. The attraction was too strong for either one to look away.

They slowly circled the perimeter of the dance floor, never breaking the chain that kept them spellbound.

Everyone and everything in the room seemed to vanish except for the music.

They fell into an embrace and began to dance a tango, moving to the rhythm of their hearts.

NAR © 2023
67 Words

This is Lorena Tarantino and Gianpiero Galdi dancing to “La Cumparsita”.