Haibun, Musing, Poem, Word Prompt

RDP Tuesday: peregrination

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
 to get creative with the word “peregrination”.
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 ‘letter’.
Also for FOWC With Fandango, using the
word “jive”. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mini Story, Musing, Word Prompt

RDP Sunday: plaid

Written for RDP, where drkottaway asks us
 to get creative with the word “plaid”.
Thanks, Doc! Here’s my take.

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Mystery, Noir, Photo Prompt, Short Story

The Debt: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #068
. I chose Pic #2.
Here’s where the image took me
.

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Flash, Informative, Mini Story, Musing, Word Prompt

RDP Tuesday: adventure

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us to
 get creative with the words ‘adventure’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt

Like Sugar In Rain

Written for Violet’s Challenge where she has
asked us to include the following quote into
our writing: “
One must be very sure of the
bank before one opens an account.”
Here’s my response to the challenge.

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Flash, Mini Story, Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle

A Decade Of Us

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #457.
Our twelve prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where they took me. Thanks, Di!

closed, kind, lights, love, memory, over,
pleasure, presence, smile, time, touch, and whim

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Limerick, Musing, Short Story, Theme Prompt

Fade Into Indigo

Written for Muse on Monday where David
asks us to write a story about a border, either in
space or time. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle

The Topper

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #456.
Our twelve prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where they took me. Thanks, Di!

content,
fairy, huge, joyful, look, pretty,
reception, residents,
step, swipe, tinsel, wobble

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Flash, Micro Story, Word Prompt

Frequencies

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#446
where we’re asked to be creative in
exactly 38  words using the word ‘implant’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Poem, Wordle

Wintry Night

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #455.
Our twelve prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where they took me. Thanks, Di!

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Short Story

The Word

Written for Melissa’s Fandango
Flash Fiction Challenge #350
.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Flash, Mini Story

The Empty Chair

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

Happy 54th Anniversary, Rochelle & Jan!

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Music Blog

Novembre

This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my November artist and her song.

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Flash, Mini Story

RDP Sunday: snowflake

Today at RDP, drkottaway asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘snowflake’. Thanks, Doc!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Music Blog

November Air

This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my November artist and his song.

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Fantasy, Poem

Come Sail Away

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#441
where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
73 words using the word ‘cerulean’. Also for Sue &
Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
‘bucket’. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Micro Story, Musing

RDP Tuesday: ephemera

Today at RDP, we are asked to share a
story, poem, photo, painting, essay, etc.,
focusing on the word ‘ephemera
. Here’s my take.

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Music Blog

Try To Remember

This week at Glyn Wilton’s Mixed Music Bag,
he’s asking us to write about a song in which
the title or a line mentions the current month. 
Here’s my September artist and his song.

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Short Story

Walk Of Life

Written for Only Murders In My Mind Weekly
Writing Prompt #72
; the photo shown below
is our prompt. Here’s where the image took me.

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Short Story

Just This One

In 2017, this was the first story
I wrote for The Elephant’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 Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #424
using the word ‘demure’,
Gerry & Sue’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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Music Blog, Musing

Memories and Inspirations

Written for Jim’s Thursday Inspiration #278 –
‘Lonely People.’
Here’s my spin on things.

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Etheree, Poem

Night Air

Written for Eugi’s Moonwashed Weekly
Prompt
, incorporating ‘forests cloaked’,
‘undisclosed’ and ‘purple haze’.
This is my response, an etheree.

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Flash, Very Short Story

Reflections In The Moonlight

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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Short Story

Mostly Fishing

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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Ovi Poem

Christmas Memories: An Ovi

Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge #79.
This week’s inspiration word is
“remember”. This is my Ovi.

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Flash

Obsolete

Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host
Rochelle 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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Short Story

So This Is Christmas

This week at Writing Prompts, Esther has teased us
with the word ‘Christmas’. Here are some happy
childhood memories from a piece I wrote in 2018.
This is my 2024 version of “So This Is Christmas”.

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Short Story

Snow Job: Sharing My World

Written for Share Your World 25th November
where Di has asked some questions about snow.

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