Acrostic, Poem

RDP Friday: raucous

Today at RDP, Martha Kennedy asks us to get
 creative with the word ‘raucous’. Thanks, Martha!
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Mini Story

The Continuing Adventures Of George & Martha, Vol. 9: The Yellow House

Written for Friday Fictioneers, where our host Rochelle
encourages us to be creative by writing a story in 
100 words or less using the photo shown below.
 Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Short Story

The House Across The Street

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend
Challenge
, using the word ‘maximalist’.
 Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Flash, Mini Story

RDP Friday: delight

Today at RDP, we are asked to share a
story, poem, photo, painting, essay, etc.,
focusing on the word ‘delight
. Here’s my take.

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Short Story

The Arrangement

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #309.
Here’s where the photo prompt took me.

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Flash, Micro Story

Postmortem

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#436
where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
37 words using the word ‘supine’. Here’s my take.

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Flash, Micro Story

Too Cute!

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #153
– including the word ‘magic’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Poem, Sonnet

Love’s Refrain

Written for Jim Adams’ Thursday Inspiration #299 –
“Dream A Little Dream Of Me
. Here’s my take.

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Short Story

Alpine Nights

Written for Sadje’s What Do You See #307.
Here’s where the two photo prompts took me.

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Flash

Forever

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #151
– including the word ‘grow’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Miscellaneous

Nowhere Man: State Of Mind

Written in response to 9/12/25 Friday Faithfuls

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Mini Story

Hump Day

What are you doing this evening?

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Flash, Mini Story

Date Night With The Ricardos

Written for Esther’s Can You Tell A Story In – #303
in exactly 49 words using these five prompt
words: ‘rose’, ‘frazzle’, ‘medal’, ‘charge’, and ‘prune’.
In 49 words, here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Micro Story

Fait Accompli

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word Story
Prompt #150
– incorporating the word ‘history’.
Here’s where the prompt word took me.

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Poem, Quadrille

So Very Proper

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #231 –
“Making Much Of Poems”
. Our host De Jackson
invites us to write a poem in exactly 44 words,
incorporating the word ‘much’ or a form of the word.
This is my quadrille.

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Short Story

City In Ruins

Written for Only Murders In My Mind
Weekly Writing Prompt #73
and the
photo prompt shown below.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Short Story

The Invitation

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. Here’s where the photo took me.

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Short Story

Morning Story Time

Originally written in 2021, I have reworked
this story for Muse on Monday where David
asks us to write a story that takes place in
a library. This is where my imagination took me.

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Musing

Sweet Silence: Thursday Inspiration

Written for Thursday Inspiration #288
“Yap Yap Yap
”. Here’s my 2¢ worth.

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Short Story

Bad Romance

Written for OLWG #425.
The prompts are below.
This is my story.

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Short Story

Some Explanation

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly
Prompts Colour Challenge
, using
the phrase ‘black & white’.
This is my story.

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Music Blog

Youthful Indiscretions

Written for Song Lyric Sunday.
Here’s what I have to say.

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Short Story

Big Man On Campus

Our gracious host, Rochelle,
encourages us to be creative
my writing a story in 100 words
or less using the photo prompt
below. This is Friday Fictioneers
and this is my 100 word story.

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Flash, Very Short Story

So Tired

Written for Shweta’s Saturday Six Word
Story Prompt #140
– ‘change’. This is my flash.

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Poem

Wishful Thinking

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #419
using the word ‘delicacy’,
and for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Colour Challenge
using the word ‘blue’.
In exactly 39 words, this is my poem.

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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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Flash, Short Story

The Fundamental Things

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 story.

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Flash, Very Short Story

We’re Here For The Sex

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #414
using the word ‘periwinkle’
in exactly 30 words and for Sue & Gerry’s
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – ‘pink’.
In exactly 30 words, this is my story.

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Short Story

Undercover

Written for The Unicorn Challenge where
we are urged to get creative in 250 words or less.
The photo below is our inspiration; this is my story.

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Short Story

Dismissed

Written for The Unicorn Challenge where
we are urged to get creative in 250 words or less.
The photo below is our inspiration; this is my story.

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