Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Grafton

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #237.
The image I used is courtesy of  Brian Dodd at
Bushboys World. Please check out his amazing
site. Here’s my story with Fan’s prompt line.

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Poetry, Shadorma, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

On Mute: A Shadorma

Written for David’s W3 Prompt #202: Wea’ve Written Weekly

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Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Tiny Dancer

Written for Living Poetry where our host,
Bartholomew, asks us to write a poem
about shadows. Here’s my response.

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Flash, Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Antique Shop

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

cushion, old, turtle, claw, shape, unusual,
chime, music, private, single, shine, and price

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Weight

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

colony, rattling, still, lose, crunch, life,
fits, hunch, scan, packages, grasping, and chains

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Secret Of No. 21

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #076
. I chose Pic #1.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Continuing Story, Short Story

Housecalls – Part 4: What Was Inside

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Adventure, Mystery, Scary Story, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Curse Of The Wrappings

Written in response to Friday Faithfuls:
“King Tut”. Here’s my take.

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Ruelle Chagouamigon

Written for Sadje’s “What Do You See” and for
Missy’s Mad Challenge where the prompt is to

write a story about two strangers who share a
moment that neither will ever speak of again.
Also for Violet’s Literary Challenge where she asks
us to include the following line into our writing:
“After what we have seen, we can never be who we were”

by Gemma Liviero. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Watcher

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers
This is where the prompt took me.

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Theme Prompt, Poetry, Writing Prompts

One More Hand

Written for dVerse ~ Poets Pub: Turn of Phrase
hosted by Melissa who has asked us to write a poem of
any style or format, made up of phrases. This is my response.

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Mystery, Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle, Writing Prompts

One Last Time

Written forThe Sunday Wordle;
our host is Brenda Warren and
her prompt words appear below.
A fabulous photo by Crispina Kemp
provided the perfect inspiration.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

shelter, settle, rose, rocks, edge, step,
messy, flesh, left, ghost, scrap, and tremble

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Haibun, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Monday: superficial

Written for RDP, where sgeoil asks us
 to get creative with the word “superficial”.
Thanks, Heather! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Bridge At Dusk

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #075
. I chose Pic #2.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Adventure, Fantasy, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Exercise, Writing Prompts

Among the Roses

Written for TN Kerr’s Writing Prompts
and Practice
; the prompts are shown
below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mini Story, Music Blog, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Knocking: A Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #321
“Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)”.
Here’s my response.

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Alphabet Poem, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Very Short Story, Writing Prompts

Beware Of Darkness

Written for David’s Weave Written Weekly
where Christine asks us to write an alphabet
poem*. This is my first attempt and it was
great fun. Thanks Christine and David!

Here is my poem in exactly 26 words.

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Free Verse, Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Pyromancer’s Confession

Written for Poetics Tuesday: “Beginnings Are Endings”,
hosted by Punam, who has asked us to write a poem,
taking the opening line of a well-known piece and
using it as the last line of our poem. This is my response.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt

3 a.m.

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Hunger Makes the Best of Poetry”

where our host, Lisa, is serving up
the word “hunger”. Here is my quad.

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Short Story, Wordle, Word Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Vow

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
Here’s where the prompt words took me.

baby, shampoo, innocence, engulfed, deep, total,
sleeping, gently, protect, promise, sunshine, and bond

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt

Secrets

This image of switchboard operators
on Dan Antion’s No Facilities site
caught my eye and interested me
enough to write a story. And here it is.

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Assignment

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

shroud, symbols, water, rock, sun, tracks,
spear, stolen, cross, promise, moon, and trail

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Mystery, Short Story

Housecalls – Part 3: What Was Left Behind

You may read Part 2 HERE.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt

The Weight

Written for Muse on Monday where David asks us
to write a story about a blue collar worker.

Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Drawer

Written for dVerse MTB: Poems of Questions
hosted by Grace. The challenge is to write a
poem built around questions that remain
unanswered. Here is my response.

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Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Lonely Fool

Written for Living Poetry where our host,
Bartholomew asks us to write a poem with
the words shown below. Here’s my response.

explain ~ coat ~ lock

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

American Pie

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers
This is where the prompt took me.

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Short Story, Song, Theme Prompt, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Last Night In Cleveland

Written for Thursday Inspiration #320 –
“Couldn’t Get It Right”. Here’s my response.

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Mystery, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Exercise, Writing Prompts

The Locket

“It’s Story Time” and Jolene has given us
four prompts to work with (see below).
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Adventure, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Short Story

Skyfall

When I spotted this image on Crispina’s
“Sunday Picture Post: City Limits”,
it called out for me to write a story.
Here where the image took me.

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