Poetry, Shadorma, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

On Mute: A Shadorma

Written for David’s W3 Prompt #202: Wea’ve Written Weekly

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Flash, Mini Story, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Diagnosis

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 59 words using the six prompt words
shown below. In exactly 59 words, here’s my flash.

psychosomatic – cancel – accountant
fluff – reggae – needlepoint

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Short Story, Song, Theme Prompt, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Last Night In Cleveland

Written for Thursday Inspiration #320 –
“Couldn’t Get It Right”. Here’s my response.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Quadrille, Theme Prompt

California Dreamin’

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille
Monday
– “Swearing by all Flowers”
where our host, De Jackson, has offered
up the word “flowers”. Here is my quadrille.

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Poetry, Prose, Theme Prompt

When The Music’s Over

Written for dVerse Poetics –“I’d Rather Go Blind”
hosted this week by Melissa. The focus is to
choose one of the five senses and write a poem
exploring what life experiences might be like
without that sense. This is my response.

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle

Second Chances

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
The prompt words are show below
and here’s where they took me.

music, relaxing, calm, peace, personal, always,
thinking, reminder, thankful, simple, friends, and meet

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Informative, Music Blog, Word Prompt

RDP Saturday: time

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

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Flash, Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt

The Password

Written for Esther’s “Can You Tell A Story In”
exactly 73 words using the seven prompt words
shown below. In exactly 73 words, here’s my flash.

exclusive, switch, rave, lip, apology, verse, and sweater

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Informative, Musing, Song, Theme Prompt

Elusive Butterfly: Friday Faithfuls

Written in response to Friday Faithfuls:
“Aether or Ether Conundrum”. Here’s my take.

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Informative, Music Blog, Theme Prompt

It’s About Time

Written for Song Lyric Sunday
“It’s About Time”.
This is my response to the challenge.

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Informative, Theme Prompt

Route 66: Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #315
“Route 66”. Here’s my response.

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Fantasy, Haiku, Poem, Word Prompt

RDP Friday: exist

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

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Short Story, Theme Prompt

Through The Wall, Softly

Written for Muse on Monday where David
asks us to write a story about neighbors.
Here’s were the prompt took me.

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Trivia

Did You Know

What group started out as
Linda Ronstadt’s backing band?

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Mini Story

My Interview With George Harrison

Our gracious host, Rochelle, encourages us
to be creative by writing a story in 100 words
or less using the photo prompt below. This is a snippet

of a story I wrote years ago. At that time, I failed to indicate
that it was a fiction piece, which made a few people angry at me.
Utterly ridiculous! FFS! Like I really interviewed George Harrison!
This is Friday Fictioneers and here’s where the photo took me.

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Cinquain, Poem

Night Music

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #16
where our inspiration word is “believe”.
Also written for dVerse Poets MTB:
Cinquains Revisited
. 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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Limerick

Everything’s Gneiss!

Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #244
. Using the prompt
word  ‘rock’, this is my limerick.

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Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

A U.S. vice president had a #1 hit song.

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Musing

What? Me Worry?

Written for Thursday Inspiration #284 –
“Let’s Live For Today
. Here’s my 2¢ worth.

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Short Story, Very Short Story

Paleolithic Rock

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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Haiku, Poem

Pisces Dreams: A Haiku

Written for Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge #11
where our host Colleen challenges us to write a
syllabic poem of our choice featuring our Zodiac
color according to the chart shown below. I am
Pisces and the color chart says my color is pink.

What is your zodiac color?

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A To Z Challenge, Music Blog

That’s Entertainment – Letter A

It’s April and this is The A To Z Challenge!

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Musing

Turning My Page

Written for Jim’s Thursday Inspiration #273 –
‘Turn The Page’
. My inspiration is the word
 ‘song’ and here’s my spin on things.

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Flash

Let The Music Play

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Challenge #125
and Kevin’s The Beginning At Last/ No Theme Thursday
for 2/13/25. This week’s prompt word is “escape”.

Here is my 6 word story.

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Flash

The Ritual

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #399,
using the word “groove”. In 75 words, this is my story.

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Flash

A Whole Lot Of Nothing

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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Music Blog

Holiday Sounds

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Ovi Poem

To Soothe The Savage Breast: An Ovi

Written for Ovi Poetry Challenge #76.
This week’s inspiration word is “calm”.
Take a nice deep breath. This is my Ovi.

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Short Story

The Prayer

Written for The Unicorn Challenge where we are
asked to get creative in 250 words or less using
the photo below as inspiration. This is my story.

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Short Story

A Great Working Relationship

Written for The New, Unofficial, On-Line Writer’s Guild.
This week the three prompts from Aooga at OLWG #388 are
(1) tea coloured eyes, (2) change the words of this poem,
and (3) New Mexico schmerz. We can use them as is,
as an inspiration or not at all. This is my story.

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