Written in response to https://fivedotoh.com/2023/06/21/fandangos-provocative-question-219/ How much attention do you pay to the dates stamped on food packaging? Do you find the various labels confusing? Will you toss out any food that has passed whatever date shows up? Or will you go ahead and consume it if it still looks and smells okay? Yesterday, theContinue reading “Dates”
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Grandad
‘ Inspiration from https://gmgblog.ca/2023/06/20/four-line-fiction-2325/ ‘Grandad, what’s this called, I mean where are the wires?’ ‘A typewriter – where did you find that old thing?’ ‘In the loft, it ain’t half heavy, Grannie said you wrote your novel on it, but I can’t see how.’ Taking the typewriter, he put two sheets of paper inside, andContinue reading “Grandad”
Longest Day
A answer for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/truthful-tuesday-20th-june/ Will you be doing anything different tomorrow because it’s the longest day of the year? Probably not, most of the days aren’t really that different from each other. There will be work. I will write when I get back home, and probably in the morning if I have time. My dogsContinue reading “Longest Day”
Sands of Time
Written today for https://carrotranch.com/2023/06/20/june-20-story-challenge-in-99-words-2/ Sands of time, or so they say. I wonder if an alien is holding a capsule, watching the grains trickleslowly when human kind was young, to a roaring sandstorm as we agedisgracefully. Do they tap to get our attention – warn us of a future we need to change? Earth asContinue reading “Sands of Time”
Sandwiches
Written for https://fivedotoh.com/2023/06/19/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-224/ A holiday. Do you remember? When we had sandwiches filled with chicken and cucumber. A trip. Do you recollect? where we travelled in a VW, with no seat belts. A day. Can you put a name to? Where me made sandcastles on a beach full of shells. Yes, I remember, with aContinue reading “Sandwiches”
More Confident
Written in response to https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/06/19/share-your-world-19th-june/ 1. If you could reinvent yourself, how would you like to be? I like who I am; mostly. Although I would love to be more confident. Even when I am around family, I find saying the right things difficult. I look at my daughter, who is so confident in whatContinue reading “More Confident”
Diaries
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2023/06/19/what-do-you-see-191-june-19-2023/ Old photographs, Shelly loved looking through them, but this box, hidden behind an old hoover, had been unopened since her dad died twenty years ago. She remembered the ornate carvings, but thought it was lost. Grief, or unable to deal with the memories, she wasn’t sure. She thought the box was thrownContinue reading “Diaries”
Posts?
Written today for http://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2023/06/18/sunday-poser-137-blogging-ideas/ Most of my ideas for posts are from word prompts. Sadje, Sunday Poser, Reena, Cyranni, and those are just a few. I love that one word to another blogger can create something completely different from me. Or something similar. From poems to narrative, to short stories. Sometimes I will post somethingContinue reading “Posts?”
Father’s Day
In the UK, today is Father’s Day. My dad, Jack was an amazing man, who was a paratrooper in the second world war. He will always be my hero. A brave man, who would do anything for anyone. I remember our little talks, and he would always put my world to right again. He savedContinue reading “Father’s Day”
Problem
Written in response to https://fivedotoh.com/2023/06/17/fowc-with-fandango-problem/ I have a problem, and a bit of a rant, about energy companies. They do not listen. My brother-in-law died in May. He left a bit of an electric bill, which had been estimated most of the time he was there. In hospital since July 2022, he wasn’t even inContinue reading “Problem”
