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Tale Weaver Prompt # 4.- Fictional Autobiography – The Main Street Private Hotel.

In this week’s challenge we have been asked to weave a fictional autobiography or use ourselves as a template for one. Which way do you think I have gone? My name is Simon Boyle and I was born at a … Continue reading

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Scribe’s Cave Picture Prompt #63 – Ben

Image: c.1900 Chicago. Rush Medical College lecture auditorium What disturbed Ben the most when he awoke was not the crowd standing around him but that he was, where he was. The night before his mother holding a rather large wad … Continue reading

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Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Week of 03-11-2015 – The Cruise

It’s a cruise Doris a cruise. I’m not sure I like that idea. It was your idea. You said I’m sick of sitting around in our hotel, lets do a cruise. It was a figure of speech. Like a metaphor? … Continue reading

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100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#170 – The Scent.

This week’s prompt: …the scent was overpowering…   Alice looked at herself in the mirror. This interview was hers. She felt confident; she knew she owned this job. Dressed in her best power suit she made sure she was wearing … Continue reading

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Creative Expressions #13 – Bonfire

Image: Caerlynn Nash. The first weekend in June was cracker night. We all loved cracker night. Mum would purchase a bag of fireworks and dad would build a bonfire stack in the back yard and we’d all wait anxiously for … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge #51 – Dark Rituals – March 10, 2015 – Released

Image: Laura Makabresku Strapped down Around me is a hum, It is gathering volume I cannot see but what is above me. A million stars twinkle as if The universe is at peace. My heart thumps I feel beads of … Continue reading

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Mondays Finish the Story – March 9th, 2015 – The Visit

Finish the story begins with: “On March 9th, 2015, three objects were reportedly seen in the skies over the Borracho Todos los Tiempos Vineyards.” They landed in the yard behind our place. Three spherical space ships. Three small green men … Continue reading

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Writing Prompt #97 “Ktenology” March 8, 2015 – The Decision

The old man had been found that morning lying in a urine soaked bed, half starved, his rear end covered in bedsores. It was luck that his neighbour had called in to see him knowing he was not well. At … Continue reading

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SoCS March 7/15 – Go

Badge by: Doobster @ Mindful Digressions Today’s prompt: the word “go.” In the small hours of the morning when this prompt arrived at my place I lay in bed thinking about what I could say about ‘go’ I have been … Continue reading

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Fairy Tale March 6th 2015, Time – The Fairy Queen

Image: (Credits photo: Time) Mum was in such a spin. She kept repeating the need for urgency. ‘The train,’ she said. ‘We can’t be missing the train.’ Relax we told her it was only six o’clock, the sun was just … Continue reading

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