Flash, Micro Story

Fait Accompli

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #150
– incorporating the word ‘history’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Poem, Quadrille

So Very Proper

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #231 –
“Making Much Of Poems”
. Our host De Jackson
invites us to write a poem in exactly 44 words,
incorporating the word ‘much’ or a form of the word.
This is my quadrille.

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Short Story

City In Ruins

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt #73
and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story

Beneath The Surface

Written for Melissa’s Fandango
Flash Fiction Challenge – #336
.
Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Musette, Poem

Go Gently: A Musette For Jim

Originally written in April, 2024 after the
sudden death of my husband’s identical twin,
I have brought this back for Reena’s Xploration
Challenge #397 – Creative Experiments and More
.

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Short Story

That Old Rockin’ Chair’s Got Me

Written for Mark’s Today’s Writing Practice #9
where we’re given photo and written prompts.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Poem

Transformation

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt
#74 and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story

Tomorrow Never Knows

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #303.
Some of you have read this, originally written
several years ago as I recounted a true story
about events experienced by me in the hospital

after surgery. The hallucinations were
very real and I remember every detail.

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Flash, Mini Story

The Boyfriend

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

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Poem

Neon Gods

Written for dVerse Poetics: It’s Noisy In Here!
Our host, Mish, is asking us to write a poem
of any style dealing with noise. Here’s mine.

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Short Story

Back For Blood

Written for Today’s Writing Practice #6
where we’re given today’s prompt.

Also for Esther’s Writing Prompts
where the word is “window”.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Short Story

Chills In The Night

Written for Today’s Writing Practice #4
where we’re given today’s prompt.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Musing

But I Won’t Do That

Written for John’s writing workshop.
I’ve chosen prompts #3 & 5. Here goes!

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Flash, Haibun, Poem, Prosery

In Papa’s Garden

Written for dVerse Poets Prosery: Yvor’s
“Time and the Garden”
. Our host, Sanaa, asks us
to write a short piece of prosery of up to 144 words
and include a complete line from the poem
“Time and the Garden”.
Here is my haibun.

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Short Story

Desperation Calling

Written for Today’s Writing Practice #2
where we’re given the image shown below
and today’s prompt. Here’s my take on things.

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Short Story

Walk Of Life

Written for Only Murders In My Mind Weekly
Writing Prompt #72
; the photo shown below
is our prompt. Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story

Morning Story Time

Originally written in 2021, I have reworked
this story for Muse on Monday where David
asks us to write a story that takes place in
a library. This is where my imagination took me.

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Mini Story, Short Story

In Search Of Answers

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

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Short Story

The Archivist

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt #71
and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story

Final Descent

Written for Muse on Monday where David asks us to
write a story from the antagonist’s point of view.
Originally written several years ago, I thought

this story met the requirements nicely.

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Music Blog, Musing

A House Is Not A Home

Written for Thursday Inspiration #291 –
“Heartache Tonight
. Here’s my 2¢ worth.

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Short Story

Montreux

Our gracious host, Rochelle, encourages us
to be creative by writing a story in 100 words
or less using the photo prompt below. This is

Friday Fictioneers and here’s where the photo took me.

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Flash, Micro Story

Hopeless

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six
Word Story Prompt #145
– ‘heal’.
Here’s where my imagination went.

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Short Story

Stranded

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt #68
. This week’s
inspiration is the photo seen below.
This is where the photo took me.

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Flash, Uncategorized, Very Short Story

Without A Care

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #425
using the word ‘lagoon’,
with inspiration from a great image
by Kevin @ No Theme Thursday.
In exactly 48 words, this is my take.

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Flash, Prosery, Short Prose

Into Oblivion

Written for dVerse Prosery: Walcott’s Dark August.
Our host Kim asks us to write a piece of flash fiction
of up to or exactly 144 words, including the line shown
below by Derek Walcott. Here’s where his line took me.

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Etheree, Poem

Imitation Of Love: An Etheree

Written for Melissa’s Fandango
Flash Fiction Challenge – #330
.
 Here’s where the photo took me.

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Short Story

Just This One

In 2017, this was the first story
I wrote for The Elephant’s Trunk.

Rewritten for The Unicorn Challenge where we are encouraged

to write a story in 250 words or less using the photo below
as inspiration. Here’s the memory that was ignited.

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Sci-Fi, Short Story

Broken Alliance

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #424
using the word ‘demure’,
Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts Weekend
Challenge
(intoxicating) and
OMIMM
Weekly Writing Prompt #67
. In 70 words,
this is where my imagination took me.

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Musing

Sweet Silence: Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #288
“Yap Yap Yap
”. Here’s my 2¢ worth.

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