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
Tag: Music
Last Night In Cleveland
Written for Thursday Inspiration #320 –
“Couldn’t Get It Right”. Here’s my response.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Continue reading “The Password”Elusive Butterfly: Friday Faithfuls
Written in response to Friday Faithfuls:
“Aether or Ether Conundrum”. Here’s my take.
It’s About Time
Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
“It’s About Time”.
This is my response to the challenge.
Route 66: Thursday Inspiration
Written for Thursday Inspiration #315 –
“Route 66”. Here’s my response.
RDP Friday: exist
Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
to get creative with the words ‘exist’.
Thanks, Martha! Here’s my take.
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.
Continue reading “Through The Wall, Softly” Did You Know
What group started out as
Linda Ronstadt’s backing band?
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.
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.
Everything’s Gneiss!
Written for Esther’s Laughing Along
With A Limerick #244. Using the prompt
word ‘rock’, this is my limerick.
Did You Know?
A U.S. vice president had a #1 hit song.
Continue reading “Did You Know?”What? Me Worry?
Written for Thursday Inspiration #284 –
“Let’s Live For Today”. Here’s my 2¢ worth.
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.
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?
That’s Entertainment – Letter A
It’s April and this is The A To Z Challenge!
Continue reading “That’s Entertainment – Letter A”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.
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.
The Ritual
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #399,
using the word “groove”. In 75 words, this is my story.
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.
Holiday Sounds
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.
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.
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.
And The Music Goes Round And Round
Written for Keith Allen’s Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian
and his new blog “The Toy In Your Life”. Here’s what I had to say.
For as long as I can remember, music has been in my life in one form or another. There was never a time when I was not singing in a choir or choral group, either in church or school. My family was musical and the house was always alive with radio music, records playing, someone practicing the piano, someone else playing the mandolin, someone tinkering with the guitar, recorder, squeezebox, drums, and everyone singing, singing, singing.
I will always remember my Christmas present when I was 12 years old … a portable record player which my parents repeatedly made very clear was not ‘a toy’. I knew that! The toy phonographs came with Howdy Doody decals or Mickey Mouse ears and were made out of cardboard painted to look like leather or plastic. I had those toy record players which didn’t last very long; this was the real deal. To me, my teal blue General Electric Solid State record player was ‘the Holy Grail’! My parents spent “good money on that thing” and expected me to treat it with respect. What they didn’t predict was how I would worship that suitcase phonograph every day of my life.
This baby had built-in speakers that really blew! And a real diamond tip needle. My older cousin Joseph taught me the proper way to raise and lower the arm and how to safely get the dust off my records. My parents gave me and my sister a weekly allowance and I used most of my money to buy records.
The first 45 to grace my record player was “Da Doo Ron Ron” by the Crystals (which was prophetic because “his name was Bill”!). The early girl groups were my idols; I loved their sound and their lyrics were perfect for young girls with hormones working overtime. Then the Beatles invaded the US and my life was changed forever.
That GE teal blue record player became my best friend and I took very good care of it. After I was married, we had a hi-tech stereo system in the living room but I still kept my phonograph upstairs in the bedroom where we’d listen to romantic tunes like “A Million To One”, “Daddy’s Home”, “I Only Have Eyes For You” and “Ooh Baby Baby”. When our sons were old enough, I handed down my record player to them and now our 15 year old granddaughter has it in her bedroom. Her latest purchase was the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy which is pretty damn cool.
Thanks to Keith Allen for the invitation to write a little something on his new blog. I hope you enjoyed what I had to share today.
I’m Nancy, The Sicilian Storyteller.
See you on the flip side. 😎
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