Musing

But I Won’t Do That

Written for John’s writing workshop.
I’ve chosen prompts #3 & 5. Here goes!

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Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

You are getting very sleepy……

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Poem

Slowly Dying

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s
Creative Challenge #047
. I chose pic #1.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Miscellaneous

Walk This Way

Written for Jim Adams’ Thursday Inspiration #293
where the these is “Walk This Way” Here’s my take.

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Miscellaneous

Family Reunion

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Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

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

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Free Verse, Poem

Colette

Written for Esther’s Writing Prompts – 77
where the prompt word this week is ‘small’.
Here’s where the prompt took me ….

a poem about our youngest granddaughter.

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Haibun, Poem

Little Foxes

Written for dVerse Poets Haibun Monday: ‘silver’.
Our host Frank asks us to write a haibun with
the word ‘silver’ as our inspiration. This is my haibun.

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Short Story

Ten Words, One Note

Written for Esther’s Writing Prompts
where the word this week is ‘voice’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Short Story

Montreux

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

Friday Fictioneers and here’s where the photo took me.

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Poem, Quadrille

Pops

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #228. Our host
Mish asks us – just for the halibut – to write a quadrille
using the word ‘fish’ in any configuration. Recalling
the many stories about my husband and his identical
twin fishing with their Pops, this is my quadrille
.

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Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #297.
This is where my imagination took me.

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Miscellaneous

Divine Intervention

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s
Creative Challenge #041
. I chose pic #3.
This is where the image took me.

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Longer Stories, Miscellaneous

Did You Know?

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Music Blog, Musing, Short Prose

Agrigento

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s
Creative Challenge #040
, using pic #1.
This is where the image took me.

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Flash, Short Story, Very Short Story

Grandma Rose: Brioschi

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #420
using the word ‘fizzle’.
In exactly 62 words, this is my take.

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Short Story

Suspended Animation

This is The Unicorn Challenge where we are
encouraged to write a story in 250 words or
less using the photo below as inspiration.
I used a story of mine from 2019 which I
remembered the minute I saw the image.

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Short Story

In Vino Veritas

Written for The Unicorn Challenge
where we are encouraged to write a
story in 250 words or less using this
photo as inspiration. Here is my story.

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Short Story

The Tiniest Of Creatures

Written for The Unicorn Challenge
where we are encouraged to write a
story in 250 words or less using this
photo as inspiration. Here is my story.

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Music Blog

Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes

Written for the April 27 edition
of Jim Adams’ Song Lyric Sunday.
Here’s what I have to say. 

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Uncategorized

Share Your World – 4.15.25

Written for Share Your World
where Di is asking us a few
questions. Here are the Q&As:

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Musing

I’d Be Lost Without It!

Written for Friday Faithfuls
where the theme is “Getting
More Out Of Your Phone”.

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Story

The Bus Ride

Written for OLWG #410.
The three prompts are shown below.
This is my story.

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Uncategorized

Share Your World

Di at pensitivity101 is asking us
to share our world by answering
a few questions. I can do that!
Here are her questions ~

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Haibun, Poem

Identical Grief Revisited: A Haibun

Written for dVerse Poets – Fancy
Meeting You At The Pub Today and
Saturday
. We are asked to share any
poem of our choosing. I am sharing
a haibun I wrote almost one year ago.
Since then, our feelings remain unchanged,

except now laughter comes a bit more easily.

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Musing

Live From New York

Written for Jim’s Thursday Inspiration #272 –
‘People Get Ready’.
Our inspiration is ‘ticket’. Here’s my spin on things.

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Music Blog

Town With No Cheer

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 featured March artist and his song.

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Musing

Get Off My Phone!

Written for Friday Faithfuls
theme “Suggestions”

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Clerihew, Poem

Breaking News

Written for dVerse Poets Pub
Complaint, A Poem of Lament
This is my Clerihew

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Short Story

The Last Violin

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge
(important) and for
Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts Wednesday
Challenge
(fragile). This is my response,
originally written in 2017, my 1st year blogging.

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