Fantasy, Flash, Theme Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing Prompts

Ringside

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
The genre is fantasy and the situation is:

You are doom-scrolling late in the night
and you reach somewhere you’d never
expected to be. Here’s my take.

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Short Story, Song, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Only One Way

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
to write a story, poem, etc. using the
prompts shown below.  Here’s my response,

based on my experience with pedantic piano teachers.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

A Clockwork Copper

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
to write a story, poem, etc., inspired by the
image shown below. Here is my response.

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Mini Story, Theme Prompt, Literary Quote, Phrase Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Shortness of Self

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
to write a story, poem, etc., inspired by
a line from Ayn Rand’s “We the Living”.

Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Poetry, Waltmarie, Writing Prompts

Who She Was: A Waltmarie

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge;
the image shown below with its caption was
my inspiration. Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Haibun, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Vigil: A Haibun

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where the word this week is “inchoate”.

Also for RDP Saturday and the word “eggs”.
This is where the prompts took me.

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Photo Prompt, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Promise They Carry

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where the theme this week is “peace”.
This is where the prompts took me.

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Longer Stories

Getting Closure

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge 411.
The following quote is suggested as our muse:
“It was not my idea, but it happened.”
This is where my imagination took me.

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Free Verse, Poem

Free As A Bird: Embracing The Panic

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge #400
where we are invited to choose a bird and divination
from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations.
This is my
true poem about learning to deal with panic attacks.

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Musette, Poem

Go Gently: A Musette For Jim

Originally written in April, 2024 after the
sudden death of my husband’s identical twin,
I have brought this back for Reena’s Xploration
Challenge #397 – Creative Experiments and More
.

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Etheree, Poem

To Be Free

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge 369
where the theme is ‘isolation’. This is my etheree.

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