Re-written from 2023 for Great Minds Think –
Unexpected Impact. Our hosts, Sarah & Rohini, ask us
to examine something that had a powerful impact.
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Vaffanculo!
Re-written from 2023 for Great Minds Think –
The Enough Challenge. Our hosts, Sarah & Rohini,
ask us to consider “when is enough actually enough?”
Some of you may remember this one; it felt like
the right time to break it out again. Enjoy!
Granted A Life
Written for the Great Minds Think Challenge –
“And that makes all the difference”. Our hosts
Sarah & Rohini invite us to write about a hero
or villain and choose to do one of two things:
1) Visualize how a hero might have become a
villain or vice versa by choosing to make a
different decision at a crucial moment … or …
2) Have a character reflect on their lives and
a key decision that brought him to that place.
In Plain Sight: A Minnie Ming Mystery
Borrowed Words, New Worlds Challenge –
our hosts Sarah & Rohini invite us to write a
piece of our choosing incorporating the
following quote by Arthur Conan Doyle:
“The world is full of obvious things which
nobody by any chance ever observes.”
The Second Shift
Endings & Beginnings Challenge – our hosts
Sarah & Rohini invite us to write about an
ending becoming a beginning, or conversely,
a beginning marking the end of something.
Seattle Regional
Great Minds Think – The Literary Rug-Pull Challenge
Our hosts Sarah & Rohini invite us to write a story
with an unexpected twist ending.
Leonard Cohen
The Brevity Challenge – Sarah & Rohini
invite us to borrow a six word story and
expand on it or create one of our own.
I created my own and expanded it.
No Surprises
At Great Minds Think – The One Sentence
Explosion Challenge – Sarah & Rohini ask
us to have fun with the following: “Please
tell me you didn’t open the blue envelope.”
The Soundtrack Of My Life
At Great Minds Think – Highlight Reel,
Sarah & Rohini ask ‘How do you
want to be immortalized?’
Big Blue
At Great Minds Think, Sarah & Rohini
offer up ‘The Object Speaks Challenge’
where we are invited to give a voice to
the objects we usually overlook. This
is a rewrite of a story I wrote in 2023.
Time Keeps on Slipping
At Great Minds Think Friday Challenge,
Sarah & Rohini ask ‘What would you do
with a magical stopwatch?’ It can be
sped up, slowed down, or even paused.
One caveat … it cannot be stopped.
What the Walls Kept Out: An Impossible Situation
Written for Great Minds Think Friday Challenge
where Rohini presents “An Impossible Situation:
Everyone hears their ancestors voices for a day”.
My story is about the brother I never got to know.
When Words Collide: Malone & the Saint
Happy to take part in the first Great Minds
Think Friday Challenge where Sarah and
Rohini present “When Words Collide!”.
This week we have two people from very
different worlds having a conversation.
The Elephant's Trunk 