Flash, Mini Story, Word Prompt

RDP Friday: fierce

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the word โ€œfierceโ€.
Thanks, Martha! Hereโ€™s my take.

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Poetry, Quadrille, Word Prompt

Lingering

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday – #227
where our host,
De Jackson, has offered up the
word โ€œsmileโ€. Here is my quadrille.

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Flash, Short Story, Theme Prompt

Salt

Written for Violetโ€™s Literary Quote Challenge
where she asks us to include the following line
into our writing: โ€œ
Life without sinning was like
food without salt; pure but tasteless.โ€
Hereโ€™s my
response to Violetโ€™s Literary Quote Challenge.

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Informative, Music Blog, Theme Prompt

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
One if by Land, Two if by Sea, and Three if by Air.
This is my response to the challenge.

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Fantasy, Mini Story, Word Prompt

The Dream

Written for Gerry & Sueโ€™s Weekly Prompts
Colour Challenge
using the word โ€˜whiteโ€™.
Hereโ€™s where the prompt took me.

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Flash, Micro Story, Word Prompt

RDP Monday: tumultous

Written for RDP, where sgeoil asks us
 to get creative with the words โ€˜tumultuousโ€™.
Thanks, Heather! Hereโ€™s my take.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt

Like Sugar In Rain

Written for Violetโ€™s Challenge where she has
asked us to include the following quote into
our writing: โ€œ
One must be very sure of the
bank before one opens an account.โ€
Hereโ€™s my response to the challenge.

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Music Blog

My Baby Sent Me A Letter

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
“Engaging With Music”.
This is my response to the challenge.

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Musing, Song

Baby Come Back: Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #310 โ€“
โ€œOh Sherrieโ€. Hereโ€™s my response.

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Flash, Micro Story, Poem, Quadrille

Done

Written for dVerse Quadrille #237 โ€“ Zero.
Our host, Melissa, from Mom With A Blog,
invites us to create a poem of exactly 44 words
using the word โ€œzeroโ€. This is my quadrille.

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Poem

RDP Wednesday: yield

Today at RDP, sgeoil asks us to get creative
with the word โ€˜yieldโ€™. Thanks, Heather!

I found this poem in a box of mementos;
it was written by me in 1965.
The last stanza was written just now.

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Flash, Mini Story

Discarded

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
encourages us to be creative by writing a story inย 
100 words or less using the photo shown below.
ย Hereโ€™s where the photo prompt took me.

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Cinquain, Poem

Sweater Weather

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #22.
Our inspiration word is โ€œsmokeโ€.
 I have written a Mirror Cinquain.

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Short Story

Weighing The Odds

Written for Sue & Gerryโ€™s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge
, using the term โ€˜Pros &
Consโ€™. Hereโ€™s were the prompt took me.

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Poem, Song

Baby Come Back

Written for Thursday Inspiration #300 โ€“
โ€œAll Out Of Love
โ€
and for RDP FRIDAY!
RETURN!
Hereโ€™s my contribution.

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Music Blog

See You In September

This week at Glyn Wiltonโ€™s Mixed Music Bag,
heโ€™s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month.ย 
Hereโ€™s my September artist and their song.

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Short Story

On Mulberry Street

Written for Sadjeโ€™s What Do You See #306.
Hereโ€™s where the photo prompt took me.

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Cinquain, Poem

Night Music

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #16
where our inspiration word is โ€œbelieveโ€.
Also written for dVerse Poets MTB:
Cinquains Revisited
. I have written a
ย Mirror Cinquain, a 10-line, single stanza poem
with a syllable pattern of 2โ€“4โ€“6โ€“8โ€“2โ€“8โ€“6โ€“4โ€“2.

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Music Blog

Sealed With A Kiss

This week at Glyn Wiltonโ€™s Mixed Music Bag,
heโ€™s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Hereโ€™s my September artist and his song.

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Flash, Micro Story

Lover, Come Back!

Sammi asks us to be creative with the word
โ€œumbrellaโ€ in exactly 24 words while Gerry &
Sue
want us to include the word โ€œburgeoningโ€.
Maybe this timely image from Mike at OMIMM
will inspire me. Hereโ€™s where my thoughts went.

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Etheree, Poem

Imitation Of Love: An Etheree

Written for Melissaโ€™s Fandango
Flash Fiction Challenge โ€“ #330
.
 Hereโ€™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 Elephantโ€™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 Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing
Prompt #424
using the word โ€˜demureโ€™,
Gerry & Sueโ€™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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Short Story, Very Short Story

The Breakup

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing
Prompt #415
using the word โ€˜confideโ€™
in exactly 96 words; also Fandangoโ€™s
Story Starter #198
and for Gerry & Sueโ€™s
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge โ€“
โ€˜cavalierโ€™. This is my 96-word story.

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Short Story

Come Sundown

Written for OLWG #415.
The prompts appear below.
This is my story.

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Uncategorized

An American Tragedy

Written for OLWG #414 and ZOZO
17.04.25 โ€“ Extra Prompts
. Combined,
there are seven inspirations, four for
the first story and three for the second.
This is my take and these are my stories.

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Short Story

Dismissed

Written for The Unicorn Challenge where
we are urged to get creative in 250 words or less.
The photo below is our inspiration; this is my story.

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Short Story

Muted Moments

Written for Muse On Monday,
where the theme is โ€˜lost in a fog’.
Also for Sadjeโ€™s โ€œWhat Do You See?” –
#284
and the two corresponding photo
prompts shown below. This is my story.

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Flash, Very Short Story

The Argument

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration

to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.

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Flash

Palisades Park

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration

to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.

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