Tag: Lonely
Dream Lover
Written for This Week’s Writer’s Workshop
hosted by our friend, John Holton.
I’ve chosen prompts #3: write a story with
the provided opening line. Here goes!
RDP Friday: delight
Today at RDP, we are asked to share a
story, poem, photo, painting, essay, etc.,
focusing on the word ‘delight’. Here’s my take.
Lover, Come Back!
Sammi asks us to be creative with the word
“umbrella” in exactly 24 words while Gerry &
Sue want us to include the word “burgeoning”.
Maybe this timely image from Mike at OMIMM
will inspire me. Here’s where my thoughts went.
A House Is Not A Home
Written for Thursday Inspiration #291 –
“Heartache Tonight”. Here’s my 2¢ worth.
Who’s Sorry Now?
Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #138 – ‘memories’. This is my flash.
The Burden Of Secrets
Written for OLWG #417.
The prompts appear below.
This is my story.
Cry Me A River
Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Challenge #126.
I have also used one of the great images by Kevin @
No Theme Thursday. This week’s prompt word is
“hopeless”. Here is my 6 word very short story.
Goddess of Love
Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #217:
Poems with Zing! This is my quadrille.
Slow Dancing
Written for The Unicorn Challenge where we
are urged to get creative in 250 words or less. The
photo below is our inspiration and this is my story.
Christmas With Mary
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #394
incorporating the word “berate” in exactly 90 words.
I have also used one of the awesome images by Kevin
at No Theme Thursday. In 90 words, this is my story.
So Alone: An Ovi
Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge #70
Our inspiration word is “empty”
and this is my ovi,
The Struggle
Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge #68
where our inspiration word is “defeat”.
Here is my ovi.
There are times in life
Days full of stress and strife
Not just full but rife
And you’re ready to give up
Can’t tell friend from foe
A world teeming with woe
With no safe place to go
Living day-to-day is scary
People sleeping in the street
Begging for a bite to eat
No shelter from the searing heat
And no one lends a hand
The haves and the have nots
Big shots and little snots
Can’t connect the daily dots
The struggle is very real
Defeat may whisper in your ear
“Enough’s enough, come here my dear”
Ignore the voice and don’t go near
Bend gently in the wind
Life can be a slippery slope
Don’t lose your faith or your hope
Hang on tight to that safety rope
You will rise above
NAR©2024
This is “Don’t Give Up” by Peter Gabriel
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Just A Part Of Life
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
has asked us to use the photo below as inspiration
to get creative in 100 words or less, making
every word count. Here’s my flash.
Jenny looked around the no-frills room which was now her home. A shy girl, she’d never spent a single night away from home; now she was half-way across the country at an unfamiliar university with thousands of nameless faces.
At first she didn’t want her parents’ help moving but at the last minute she relented. They were on their way home now and all Jenny wanted was to grab her phone and beg them to come back and take her home.
The sound of girl’s excited laughter echoed in the hall; Jenny peeked out and someone happily waved her over.
NAR©2024
100 Words
This is “What Is Life” by George Harrison
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Park Avenue
Our delightful host Rochelle at Friday Fictioneers
has offered this challenge: to write creatively in
100 words or less in response to this photo.
Here is my story in 100 words.
Each morning they would incline their respective hospital beds, draw back their curtains an inch and raise binoculars to their eyes. They would wave, smile radiantly and lift a hand-written note which read “Wanna blow this joint?”
A different note followed at noon and 9PM. And they’d laugh!
They found each other by accident, two teenage girls occupying apartments diagonally across Park Avenue. Each was bedridden with the ubiquitous daily flow of boring people in and out of their rooms …. parents, nurses, doctors.
It was indescribably joyful to have a secret friend.
These were the highlights of their days.
NAR©2024
100 Words
This is Bette Midler with “Friends”
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