Category Archives: Writing prompt

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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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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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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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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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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Wordle #120 “September 12th, 2016” – The Feint

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Michael

This week’s words: Codex (a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times. A manuscript volume, usually of an ancient classic or the Scriptures. Archaic. a code; book of … Continue reading →

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Microfiction challenge #13: Woman in the sun – Sitting With Miss Marble

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Michael

Painting, by Caspar David Friedrich The theme words are: Dawn sunset worship magic power regal My friend Miss Marble was a magical person. Well she was a witch so it was part of her persona. Her power was stunning when … Continue reading →

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