Monthly Archives: September 2016

Who’d a Thought

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Michael

Who’d a thought you would do it Who’d a thought you could do it After the day you had. When shit rained down on you Your ego taking a pounding Stripped of immediate hope And sounding so desolate, I thought … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge #131 – A Girl Who Once Was!

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Michael

Image: – illdispose.deviantart.com She had it all at her feet A world revolving round her. That was last week Queen of her street you might say. Now it tumbles, crumbles around her Disintegrating as beside her Others feel their strength … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers – Aunt Liz

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Michael

Photo: Joy Pixley The boarding house my Aunt Liz lived in was all timber with a magnificent timber staircase. As kids we loved to run up and down the stairs playing all sorts of games. Aunt Liz would tell us … Continue reading →

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Wordle #121 “September 19th, 2016” Peter, Paul and Mary

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Michael

This week’s words: Microlith (a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times..) Forward Futile Nothingness … Continue reading →

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Writing Prompt September 18th: Tell me so I can tell you

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Michael

Image: http://miriadna.com/preview/still-life My focus goes to the crab, cooked and ready to be consumed, to be sprinkled with a little lemon juice. The lemon has been peeled and is awaiting my grasp sits upon a fruit stand with additional lemons … Continue reading →

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SoCS Sept. 17/16 – est

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Michael

They were the best of friends. You’d see them of a morning, just as the dawn was breaking, striding down the street sometimes hand in hand, sometimes their hands would be in the throes of an animated conversation about one … Continue reading →

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Microfiction: Spring – Darcy

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Michael

Image: Harald Slott-Moller Darcy loved the coming of spring. It meant for her an end to the confinement of winter, the cold and the sickness that struck her each year. She’d be ordered to stay in bed, rest and stay … Continue reading →

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Friday Music Prompt #60: The Log Driver’s Waltz by Kate & Anna McGarrigle Dance of the Kitchen

Posted on September 16, 2016 by Michael

The kitchen came alight When the kids came to visit. It was a lively discussion It went on all night No topic was too sacred We joined in, argued our case The dance of the kitchen While our words beat … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt – Gate – #writephoto – Memories

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Michael

The gate was a sign of the times. In disrepair, broken and neglected. Like the garden it once protected, it too lay overgrown, discarded by the ones who once valued and treasured its beauty and magnificence. There was a time … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver/Fairy tale prompt #83: September 15 – Frozen in Time

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Michael

Image Google Images Artichoke Norman hated being a garden frog. It was all the doing of the Psycho Wicked Witch of the West who out of sheer spite because he had spurned her advances had turned him into a ceramic … Continue reading →

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