Tag Archives: mystery

Thursday Photo Prompt – Mystery #writephoto

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Michael

The most remarkable thing about the mystery of the hidden tomb was there was only one set of stairs leading to it and none leading away from it. It puzzled many. Papers were written on it, conferences held, theories were … Continue reading →

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Thursday Photo Prompt – Passage #writephoto

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Michael

It was the final flight of stairs before you got to the THE PASSAGE that took so much out of you. You had that sense of dread about you. You began to get a feel for what it must have … Continue reading →

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Music Prompt #65 Michael Jackson “Thriller”

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Michael

It was, I’m sure after midnight The wind blew out of control The old corrugated iron fence Long neglected and rusted through Rattled and crashed in a way Suggested there may not be a tomorrow. I woke with start, not … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt- Moonlit #writephoto

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Michael

On the edge of the swamp just out of reach, the scum, that enjoyed a fault-free existence, moved slightly to spread itself that fraction further in its efforts to take over all it surveyed and didn’t notice the creature moving … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver #87 Making Sense of Nonsense – The Best Seller

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Michael

The Opening paragraph reads: “ The dasherber ran like a freigers. Horfwers stood and fuxxated. There were coitnty swredtz and koilpy brisheners all over just quopiry to the tuggerry all about the frrummlllop.” Write your translation of the opening paragraph. … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver #87 September 29th Lost in a Foreign Land – Angle’s Alley

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Michael

Weave a tale in which you as a traveller are lost in a foreign city and you find help from an unlikely source. Where are you going? How did you get lost? Who is it that helps you? What do … Continue reading →

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#NoirWednesday: the small house

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Michael

Picture by: Stephen Tanham It was a house like any other house. A little house over a bridge, doing what little houses over bridges did. Only it wasn’t. This house long thought to be a small house in which shelter … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver #80 –August 11th Making Sense of Nonsense – Special Delivery Part Two

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Michael

Miss Marble hurried through her house and out into the shed where her cauldrons all bubbled away in excited expectation. Placing the Fine Fossimax on the bench she looked around and saw that each of the cauldrons was doing as … Continue reading →

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Microfiction challenge #8: The avenue

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Michael

Image: Van Gogh, Avenue of poplars   Part One of this Story can be found here: https://summerstommy.com/2016/07/31/microfiction-challenge-7-wheatfield/   Rac woke to the shaking of a paramedic. The pain in his knees had gone and his mind went immediately into panic … Continue reading →

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Thursday Photo Prompt – Crypt – #writephoto

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Michael

The Crypt Killer Five finished their last set and sat back satisfied with the night’s performance. They had played a whole bunch of new material. It was a first for them playing a selection of jazz, rock and country. The … Continue reading →

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