Category Archives: Writing prompt

100 Word Weekly Writing Challenge —Week 8 – Alec’s Corner Store

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Michael

Image Credit: Frank Jansen Alec shuffled to the door, unlatched it and opened his corner store for one more day. With the drinks fridge stocked, the chip packets in neat rows and the lolly counter it usual array of coloured … Continue reading →

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Wordle #144 “February 27th, 2017″ – Lucinda, Heaven or Hell?

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Michael

This week’s words: Good Enter Tree Mirabilis ((adj.) wondrous, remarkable, amazing) Different Abandon Plausible Lucida (the brightest star in a constellation) Bald Flaw Apotropaic ((adj.) Intended to ward off evil.) Grow It was Wayne who looked at Greg and Greg … Continue reading →

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Sunday Strange microfiction challenge – Beryl Necromancer

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Michael

Image: Ivan Bilibin Beryl Necromancer had a perversion for heads on a stick. It was a compulsion she couldn’t get her mind away from. If she liked the look of you, your head that is, then she’d dream, fantasise about … Continue reading →

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Saturday Mix – February 25, 2017 – Bastet

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Michael

Write a tall tale in 100 words   It had been a hot summer on the farm. No rain meant the crows were flying backwards to keep the dust from their eyes and the farmer was having to spray water … Continue reading →

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Thursday Photo Prompt – Bridge #writephoto

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Michael

I wondered as I stood under the bridge who might have been here before me. The age of the thing and what that means fascinated me. I live in a young country, in western terms at any rate and we … Continue reading →

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Writespiration #104 52 Weeks in 52 Words Week 8 – Choke

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Michael

If you pulled it out too far you flooded the carburettor. You had to judge just how far and that depended on the time of year. Winter needed more than summer. Our old car had a mind of its own. … Continue reading →

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February 23: Flash Fiction Challenge – Boat People

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Michael

The spring rains had not arrived, the fields were barren, prospects dim. His young family faced hunger if he didn’t act. He made a life changing decision. He packed up his family and set sail to a foreign land. They … Continue reading →

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Whiteout Wednesdays #4

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Michael

cities bring you poems, and   orchards pass by. in your bed, grief, listening to sleep beautifully explained, weep   cannot kiss your  face. Lovers put on her lips like clothes, wear her body pyramided against the disappearing wall. The sky washed … Continue reading →

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Tale weaver/ Fairy Tale 23/2/17 Beyond the Veil of Mist

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Michael

Photo credit: Adventures in the Wild   It’s amazing the more I think about it how she vanished like that. One moment there she was standing before, wings all a flutter and without so much as goodbye she flew off. … Continue reading →

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100 Word Weekly Writing Challenge —Week 7 – The Witch

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Michael

Image Credit: Olivier Guillard Once upon a time in a forest just down the road lived a witch. She was a run of the mill witch except for one thing. The witch was a witchy witch. She could look in … Continue reading →

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