Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 51 words using the prompts below.
yawn ~ weather ~ toot ~ cookies ~ necromancer
Continue reading “Raindance”🐘 Nancy is a storyteller, music blogger, humorist, poet, curveballer, noir dreamer 🐘
Written for “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 51 words using the prompts below.
yawn ~ weather ~ toot ~ cookies ~ necromancer
Continue reading “Raindance”Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick. The prompt word
is ‘floor’ and this is my limerick.
Written for Living Poetry where our host,
Bartholomew, asks us to write a poem
about shadows. Here’s my response.
Written for RDP, where drkottaway asks us
to get creative with the word “corner”.
Thanks, Doc! Here’s where the prompt took me.
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.
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.
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.
Written today for Eugi’s Moonwashed Weekly Prompt
where our inspiration word is ‘tangle’. This is my Dectina.
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.
All text, graphics and videos are copyright for The Sicilian Storyteller, The Elephant’s Trunk and The Rhythm Section and are not to be used without permission. NAR©2017-present.

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”.