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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #130 – Once in a Lifetime.

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Michael

Once in a lifetime You’d only want it to happen once in your lifetime. The call from the doctor to say your recent pathology test results are in. You know when they ring the news is never going to be … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #81- As The Years Go By

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Michael

As we age, stuff has a bad habit of going wrong. We don’t move as quickly nor as agilely as we once did. Things hurt that didn’t hurt before. It’s as if there is a darkness descending upon us. Our … Continue reading →

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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #5 – Sleep Study

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Michael

My wife of many years was constantly nudging me in the ribs while we slept complaining that my snoring kept her awake. One day she was reading the paper and came across a story about a man who like me … Continue reading →

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Twittering Tales #118 – 8 January 2019

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Michael

She argued it was good for me. But it was green. She’d gone to a lot of trouble But it was green and not an attractive green. Juicing was the way to good health But it was green Full of … Continue reading →

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Sunday Writing Prompt “Collage Prompt #41”

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Michael

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is the rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Rumi   After a lifetime of hard work, jobs wherever he could find them, long hours of manual labour had left him in old age … Continue reading →

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 14

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Michael

This weeks prompt gave me much to think about. On the one hand, you could argue that as I am now retired aspirations as such no longer matter, employment-wise. It’s more about enjoying each day as it comes past. So, … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of May 30, 2017 – Rattled

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Michael

Image © Yinglan The tram came rattling along. It rattled as my life rattles. It’s what happens when you gravitate from one crisis to another. Today the tram was taking me to my doctor. I had been called back and … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of March 21, 2017 – The Future

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Michael

Photo prompt provided by Sunayana MoiPensieve. Every twenty metres in front of the museum there were buskers of every kind. Small bands, like the Destitutes, who eked out a living in such trying times. With the government removing universal health … Continue reading →

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100 Word Weekly Writing Challenge —Week 5

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Michael

Image Credit: Stephanie of La Photographie The proposed changes to health care meant my partner would no longer be covered. I wasn’t going to see her shrivel up and die. There needed to be a protest and when changes placed … Continue reading →

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Michael

Write for a while, and a little while longer. Then go back and use about ¼– or less.   I have a tale about ignorance, getting old, and being a right bastard. It’s that getting old thing of not caring … Continue reading →

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