Please visit the link for the original challenge, https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2021/04/18/wordle-499/ The Words: My Submission 🙂 You needn’t twist my arm to prowl the forest once the sun has set. These days, the idea of beauty drifts like a virus; false trophies, displayed on excessively reworked hearths. Beauty does not require a powder-puff, false eyelashes, or filters. It... Continue Reading →
Three Line Tales #272 – Upchuck
You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr: Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.Have fun! For the... Continue Reading →
First Line Friday, March 26/21 – Taste of Lace
It is First Line Friday! Welcome, and let’s get writing. Below is the first line, and you get to write the rest. This prompt alternates with Jim’s Music Prompts, so make sure to check back next Friday for some musical inspiration. The first line is provided, and you get to write whatever comes afterward. Length, genre, and... Continue Reading →
Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner, Week #14 – Compassionate Gesture
The Six Easy Guidelines: A photo prompt topic is to be used as your ‘muse’. They will arrive promptly at midnight each Wednesday morning.Include the photo prompt and its credits with your story on your blog.All stories are to be crafted and honed to under 200 words in length.Each flash fiction piece should have a... Continue Reading →
First Line Friday, Mar 26/2021 – Never Me
The line: "People see what makes sense to them, reality notwithstanding." To participate, please visit, https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/first-line-friday-march-26-2021/ My Submission 🙂 People see what makes sense to them, reality notwithstanding. Blinders and filters, skewing fact and truth. He left me, but I cheated because he wasn’t emotionally available. I failed that class because my teacher hated me.... Continue Reading →
Three Line Tales #269 – Idiocracy
You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr: Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.Have fun! My Submission... Continue Reading →
Wordle #495 – Last Ditch Effort
For the original challenge, please visit, https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/wordle-495/ The Words: My Submission: How do we reconcile this? You act like an entitled child, stuck in a perpetual state of denial. You ask me to run miles, then stab my heart when you don’t reciprocate. It takes two people for a relationship to shine. Are you frightened... Continue Reading →
Crimson’s Creative Challenge #123 – Dark Matter
The Challenge: BE CREATIVE! An image can be interpreted more than a hundred...thousand...million ways! But, the rules themselves are simple: Keep your responses your own, and write in 150 words or less. For the original challenge, please visit Crispina at, https://crispinakemp.com/2021/03/17/crimsons-creative-challenge-123/ My Submission 🙂 You assume I am laughing, but there’s a frog in my... Continue Reading →
Reena’s Xploration Challenge #177 – Who am I?
Time for a photo prompt! My submission is based on the photo (my cover) offered by Reena, https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2021/03/18/reenas-xploration-challenge-177/ My Submission 🙂 Sister, Employee, Daughter, Friend. Confidant, Cousin...my titles don’t end. What I am to one, I’m not to another. A stranger to most, but my kids call me, Mother. I’m that annoying person, counting her... Continue Reading →
Friday Fictioneers Mar 19, 2021 – Trapped Within the Tree
For the original challenge, please visit Rochelle at, https://rochellewisoff.com/2021/03/17/19-march-2021/ My Submission, 80 words 🙂 What resides in a melted tree? Me. Only me. Its trunk was once solid and strong, But then a strange fire came along. Azure flames, not a single spark. I snuck inside, into the dark. The trunk began to splinter and... Continue Reading →