Continuing Series, Mystery, Noir, Original Series, Recurring Character, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Silk Exchange: A Minnie Ming Mystery

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

casualties, phase, profit, drop, folly, cold,
hungry, dawn, complicit, evil, stream, reckoning

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Continuing Series, Mystery, Noir, Original Series, Recurring Character, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

A Bullet’s Worth: A Case For Dirk Malone

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

firm, vice, world, wind, cares, someone, 
worth, wound, word, here, seem, spiral

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Continuing Series, Flash, Mystery, Original Series, Photo Prompt, Recurring Character, Short Story, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Where There’s A Will: A Minnie Ming Mystery

Written for Crispina’s
Crimson’s Creative Challenge

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Mystery, Original Series, Recurring Character, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

The Silver Compass: A Minnie Ming Mystery

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

velvet ~ compass ~ echo ~ random ~ rust ~ silver
shadow ~ pebble ~ stone ~ drone ~ clip ~ dry

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Continuing Series, Longer Stories, Noir, Original Series, Recurring Character, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Lady In Red: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

siren ~ chanting ~ startled ~ pulse ~ sighs ~ night
basket ~ answers ~ heart ~ shape ~ badge ~ stay

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Flash, Mystery, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

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.”

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Edgy, Mystery, Noir, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Pier 13

Written for dVerse Poetics: But no, a butterfly.
Our host, Merril, challenges us to write a
poem in any form incorporating the names
of at least three butterflies from a list she
has provided. I have chosen Crimson Patch,

Fatal Metalmark, Golden Hairstreak,
Painted Lady, and Velvet Rose.

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Dialogue, Edgy, Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Old Friends

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.

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

The Curator

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 62 words using the prompt words shown
below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

lasso ~ impersonate ~ shrine
video ~
janitor ~ congeal

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Short Story

The Weight of Silence

Story inspired by a photo by Crispina Kemp.
I created the plot based on true characters.

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Mystery, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

The Last Step

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter,
inspired by Fan’s line prompt and a photo by
Dan Antion. Here’s where the prompts took me
–
a fictionalized account of a true murder story.

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Mystery, Noir, Recurring Character, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

Up All Night: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

mind, visit, thinking, creature, exists, criminal,
know, dirt, walk, head, writer, and rumbles

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Flash, Mini Story, Musing, Mystery, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Death Dive

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
exactly 85 words using the eight prompt words
shown below. In exactly 85 words, here’s my flash.

shark – conga – luxury – bus
four – towel – umpire – soundtrack

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Mystery, Noir, Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Big Charade: A Dirk Malone Mystery

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

façade, doubts, curiosity, bitter, torn, hit,
restless, hope, massive, frail, strip, and sting

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

One Last Time

Written forThe Sunday Wordle;
our host is Brenda Warren and
her prompt words appear below.
A fabulous photo by Crispina Kemp
provided the perfect inspiration.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

shelter, settle, rose, rocks, edge, step,
messy, flesh, left, ghost, scrap, and tremble

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Mystery, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Locket

“It’s Story Time” and Jolene has given us
four prompts to work with (see below).
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mystery, Noir, Short Story, Word Prompt

RDP Saturday: playful

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

Truth be told, I wrote the following story yesterday
and added the word “playful” just now. Enjoy!

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Mystery, Noir, Short Story

The Wagging Tail Case: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Violet’s challenge where she has
asked us to include the following quote
into our writing:
“A dog has lots of friends
because it wags its tail and not its tongue.”

Here’s my response to the challenge.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery, Word Prompt

Deadly Serving

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#447
where we’re asked to be creative in
exactly 68  words using the word ‘teaspoon’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle

The Thursday Shift

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle #454.
Our twelve prompt words are shown below.
Here’s where they took me. Thanks, Di!

balance, try, flat, beauty, understand, hope,
give, peace, happy, thought, dedicate
, and share

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Flash, Mini Story

Dirk Malone, PI: The Ice Princess

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In” –
#313
, exactly 61 words using these six prompt
words: ‘baby’, ‘ice-skating’, ‘album’, ‘salad’,
‘fright’, and ‘camera’. Here’s my 61-word flash.

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Mystery, Short Story

Silent Witness

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #311.
Here’s where the photo prompts took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Mystery

Silent Night

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
encourages us to be creative by writing a story in 100
words or less using the photo prompt below. I am also
going with Fandango’s Story Starter #222 to provide
my first sentence. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Cinquain, Flash, Poem

Twenty-Five To Life

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #17.
Our inspiration word is “trap”. I have
 written a Mirror Cinquain, a 10-line,
single stanza poem with a syllable pattern
of 2 – 4 – 6 – 8 – 2 – 8 – 6 – 4 – 2.

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Flash, Mini Story

Pretty Painted Nails

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#432
where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
85 words using the word ‘eavesdrop’. Also for
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge –
‘lilac’.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Short Story

Back For Blood

Written for Today’s Writing Practice #6
where we’re given today’s prompt.

Also for Esther’s Writing Prompts
where the word is “window”.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Poetic Justice: Guest Post with Co-Authors Willow Willers & Dan Antion

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Short Story

Belle Terre

Written for WTFAIOA Pick 3 #4.
Each week the inspirational list
will be comprised of 21 randomly
selected words; we may use as many
as we want but must use at least three.
Here’s our list of words; I have used all.

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Flash, Short Story, Very Short Story

There’s Always Something

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

The Thing

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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