Author Archives: Michael

Writing Prompt #179 “Collage 30” – You Being You

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Michael

It’s all about letting go, Knowing there is but one Who with a flick of their tongue Can send you off into an ecstasy Only a lover will provide you.   It’s all about giving your all Knowing if you … Continue reading →

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Microfiction challenge #15: Freedom

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Michael

Image: Ilya Repin The priest had woken her just before dawn urging her to be ready. It was the day, the day they made their escape into freedom. For months she had languished in the basement hiding for fear of … Continue reading →

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Music Prompt #61 – Evanescence ‘My Immortal.’

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Michael

It was all tears and fears that first day I checked in I thought you were checking out. Excitement slipped into trepidation ‘Where had you come from?’ I heard you ask. ‘I’ve always been here just hanging around I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver #86, September 22: “I wanna be a paperback writer.” – Dingle Crestworthy, Paperback writer

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Michael

I am a paperback writer thought Dingle Crestworthy as he sat at his keyboard finishing off his latest western thriller. Dingle was the award-winning author of the Dry Gulch series. I’m sure you have heard of them if not read … Continue reading →

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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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