Limerick, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Ooh, That Smell!

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word
is β€˜bath’ and this is my limerick.

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

The Will

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
The prompt words are shown below.

Here’s where they took me.


default,
family, generations, glue, memories,
miss, welcomed, loved, accepted, included, and divorce

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Mystery, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Married To The Mob

Written for β€œIt’s Story Time” where
Jolene has given us four prompts to
work with. They are shown below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

For Nina

Written for Muse On Monday where David
has asked us to write a story about being
stuck in traffic. Here’s my response.

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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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Continuing Story, Short Story

Housecalls – Part 4: What Was Inside

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Echo Poem, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Her Greatest Gift

Written for David’s Weave Written Weekly
where O’Nika asks us to write an echo
poem* about a significant β€œfirst” in life.
Thanks for the prompt, O’Nika & David!

I have chosen to write about a first grandchild.

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Informative, Micro Story, Trivia

March Forth!

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Micro Story, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Saturday: critters

Written for RDP, where Punam asks us
Β to get creative with the word β€œcritters”.
Thanks, Punam! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Micro Story, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Friday: symmetry

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
Β to get creative with the word β€œsymmetry”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Phrase Prompt, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Look Of Love

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter.
Here’s my story, using Fan’s prompt line:

It had never entered Richard’s mind that his son
was not his own blood.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Fabric Of Life

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly
31 words using the prompt word β€˜patchwork’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mystery, Short Story

Housecalls – Part 3: What Was Left Behind

You may read Part 2 HERE.

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Mini Story, Musing, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Thursday: gregarious

Written for RDP, where bushboy asks us
 to get creative with the word β€œgregarious”.
Thanks, Brian! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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

The Locket

β€œIt’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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Informative, Word Prompt

RDP Tuesday: celebrations

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the word β€œcelebrations”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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

The Talk

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

date, love, good, struggle, touch, wisdom,
generations, heart, dreams, songs, coffee, and hands

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Flash, Mini Story, Word Prompt

RDP Sunday: brusque

Written for RDP, where drkottaway asks us
 to get creative with the word β€œbrusque”.
Thanks, Doc! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poetry, Prose, Theme Prompt

When The Music’s Over

Written for dVerse Poetics β€“β€œI’d Rather Go Blind”
hosted this week by Melissa. The focus is to
choose one of the five senses and write a poem
exploring what life experiences might be like
without that sense. This is my response.

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Micro Story, Word Prompt

The Mating Game

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt
where Sammi asks us to get creative
in exactly 26 words using the word β€˜mood’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Informative, Music Blog, Theme Prompt

It’s My Life

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
“Pondering Existential Thoughts”.
This is my response to the challenge.

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Cinquain, Poetry, Word Prompt

No Place Like It

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #38 where our
inspiration word is β€œhome”. Here’s my mirror cinquain.

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Haibun, Musing, Poem, Word Prompt

RDP Tuesday: peregrination

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the word β€œperegrination”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s one of my memories.

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Mini Story, Word Prompt

Swingers

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#452
where we’re asked to be creative in
exactly 72 words using the word β€˜letter’.
Also for FOWC With Fandango, using the
word β€œjive”. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt

The Last Door

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #070
. I chose Pic #1.

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Flash, Mini Story, Word Prompt

RDP Friday: fierce

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the word β€œfierce”.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.

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Woof Woof!

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Mystery, Short Story, Theme Prompt

My Brother’s Keeper

Written for Missy’s Mad Challenge #073.
The prompt appears below. Here’s my take.

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Flash, Informative, Mini Story, Word Prompt

RDP Wednesday: generous

Written for RDP, where sgeoil asks us
Β to get creative with the word β€œgenerous”.
Thanks, Heather! Here’s my take.

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Short Story, Word Prompt, Wordle

Respect: Inspired by My Mother

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #459.
Our twelve prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where they took me. Thanks, Di!

beam, cherished,
dark, duplicated, dusted, final,
insult, left, reminiscent, right, top, and world

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