Musing, Photo Prompt, Poetry, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Attitude

Written for Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction
Challenge
using the image for inspiration.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Observations aka People Watching

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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Dialogue, Micro Story, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

RDP Thursday: Bingo calls

Written for RDP where bushboy asks us to
get creative with the words “Bingo calls”.
Thanks, Brian! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Edgy, Haiku, Micropoetry, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Guanoed: A Haiku

Written for Tanka Tuesday where Melissa
asks us to write an edgy, offbeat haiku.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Limerick, Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Sizzling!

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word is
‘heat’. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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

Duel At Dawn

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 40 words using the prompt words below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

duel – iguana – croissant – trampoline

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Dialogue, Photo Prompt, Recurring Character, Short Story, Writing Prompts

The Continuing Adventures of George & Martha, Vol. 10: The One That Got Away

Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Showing Up

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge,
where we are taking a rather broad look at
AGE-ING, and the relationship between
generations. This is my story.

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Limerick, Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Accidental Cook

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word is
‘warn’. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Limerick, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Let Them Eat Cake!

Written for Tanka Tuesday where Colleen
asks us to write a poem using homophones.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

RDP Monday: eupeptic

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

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

Shopping Day

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 100 words using the prompt words
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

expire – squint – cult – lemon – grandpa
stampede – helicopter – market – pompom – woof

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

RDP Saturday: votive

Written for RDP where Punam asks us to
get creative with the words “votive”.
Thanks, Punam! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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

A Drip Too Far

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle;
the prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

tap, leak, annoyance, awkward, cost, cheaper,

tap, leak, annoyance, awkward, cost, cheaper,
difference, chrome, waste, smell, trip, cleaner

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Short Story, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Going Nowhere

Written for “It’s Story Time” where Jolene
has given us four prompts to work with.
They are shown below; here’s where they took me.

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Limerick, Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Scrub-A-Dub-Dub

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt words are
‘prince’ and ‘clean’. This is my limerick.

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Fantasy, Flash, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Ringside

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
The genre is fantasy and the situation is:

You are doom-scrolling late in the night
and you reach somewhere you’d never
expected to be. Here’s my take.

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Micro Story, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Tuesday: cacography

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

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Monday: wattle

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

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Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

First Impressions

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly 93 words
using the prompt word ‘persuasion’. Also for Sue & Gerry’s

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – “blush”, and two prompts
from Fandango’s FOWC – “introduce” and “basics”.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Fantasy, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Delicioustopia

Written for David’s Wea’ve Written Weekly.
Yvette is our PoW this week; her prompt is
to write a poem of 20 lines or less about a

utopian or dystopian world. This is my take –
a whimsical, fantasy world of food.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

C’est La Vie

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 57 words using the six prompt words
shown below. In 57 words, here’s my flash.

cat, pies, travesty, diamonds, chair, stationery

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

This Little Piggie

Written for Crispina’s Creative Challenge.
I’ve selected two photos for my story.
Here’s where the images took me.

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

By The Gods!

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick
. The prompt word
is ‘floor’ and this is my limerick.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Just Eat It!

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly
20 words using the prompt word ‘conundrum’.
Here’s where Sammi’s prompt took me.

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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Deep Sieze

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 28 words using the prompt words
shown below. Here’s my flash.

scrabble – police – underwater

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Dialogue, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Can You Dig It?

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille: Let’s Get Digging.
Our host, Punam, invites us to write a44-word poem
using a form of the word “dig”. Here’s my quad.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Cursed

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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Micro Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Race

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 64 words using the six prompt words
shown below. In 64 words, here’s my flash.

microphone – zeal – snail – cottage – immortal – teapot

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Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Sundaying of Sundayness

Written for David’s Wea’ve Written Weekly
where our PoW, Sally, asks us to write a
poem in the style of an author we admire.
Thanks for the inspiration, Sally & David!
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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