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100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#172 – The King’s Demise

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Michael

This week’s prompt: …when the daylight returned the king was dead… There was no doubt about it. The morning sunrise brought news of the king’s demise. It was a shock to us all as only the day before the king … Continue reading →

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #62: – Lenny

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Michael

Image: c.1855-1860. one of the first surgical procedures using ether as an anesthetic Its true boss he’s lyin’. You sure he knows? Oh he knows boss. How can you be sure? He’s got a map. How do you know it’s … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver Prompt #3 Making Sense of the Nonsense – Grezzle

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Michael

This week you are asked to weave a tale using the word GREZZLE in any of its forms be it verb, noun, adjective, adverb. Grezzle, grezzling, grezzlfication, grezzliate, grezzliator, Weave your story around what you perceive the meaning of the … Continue reading →

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Wordle #50 March 2, 2015 – Brother Andrew

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Michael

This week’s words: Madcap (wildly impulsive, heedless) Blister Strap Aureole (a halo) Accident Howl Gnaw Flagellation (flogging, associated most frequently with BDSM or religious penitence) Craven (cowardly) Scale Victim Shelf Brother Andrew knelt on the stone floor before the altar. … Continue reading →

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #61 – Uncle Brewster

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Michael

Image: radiology nurse technician, WW1 France 1918 Uncle Brewster was the first man to play with the idea of full body armour for the local constabulary. In his day in the wilds of colonial Australia it was common for the … Continue reading →

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #60 – The Chat

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Michael

Image: Anatomical model. Doctors were not allowed to touch women’s bodies so they would point to describe pain locations My son its time for a chat. A chat Father? A chat, only a father can have with his son. I … Continue reading →

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #58 – Denial

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Michael

Image: Antique birthing chair used until the 1800s   Charles I don’t like. But Marigold it’s the latest in birth appliances. Charles please not the ‘b’ word, I’m happy in denial. But Marigold your day is approaching. Well it was … Continue reading →

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Masque (Tale Weaver Prompt)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Michael

Serge? Hildy? Oh Serge but you are very handsome tonight. Thank you Hildy, as do you. You think of me as handsome Serge? Of course. Women, Serge are meant to be beautiful, pretty, radiant. Men like you Serge are handsome. … Continue reading →

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Haibun Thinking – January 20th 2015 – Mr Franklin

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Michael

Image: Ben Franklin by Jules Paige I have travelled half a world to stand here. Left behind my steamy summer for this freezing winter. But rugged up against the cold I have longed for this day to look up at … Continue reading →

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Līgo Haibun Challenge – Word Prompt – Childhood

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Michael

This week’s prompts: childhood or deluded. Childhood The 7am news blasts out from the old Bakelite wireless, our way of staying touch with the outside world. Mum has it playing loud for two reasons, so she can hear it and … Continue reading →

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