What is your least favorite holiday side dish? (for any holiday) Sprouts, they have no place on a Christmas Dinner. What is the ugliest or most tasteless decoration you’ve ever seen? I think any decoration deserves to be on the tree, no matter how ugly. It is beautiful to someone else. What is a cherishedContinue reading “#For Share Your World”
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For #270
DepictionStealFlyLyricsCrystallizeFirepitHostessJasperThrashLigamentDripPole Our hostess Jasper stoked the firepit and the burgers we consumed tasted burnt. I listened to the lyrics of the song, and I was back at the scouts singing fireside songs. I didn’t enjoy it then, and now, as my bones creak I want to be anywhere else than in the middle of theContinue reading “For #270”
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The product of a faulty wired up world she didn’t know what to think next. Every day was a struggle, but just to get out of bed was a miracle. As each day passed life got that little bit easier. Sometimes it was like taking a step back; several steps back. Out of work forContinue reading “https://fivedotoh.com/2021/12/20/fowc-with-fandango-product/”
A New Start
Silver sandals at Christmas, the weather outside was colder than frightful, but inside her front room it was thirty degrees. Everyone else celebrated the season, but she skipped Christmas every year. The brochure in front of her was on the same page for ten minutes. Her hot chocolate long gone, she still couldn’t decide onContinue reading “A New Start”
A Present
It appeared overnight, the gift wrapped in brown paper, tied with a string. It looked out of place with the other presents. Not worse, better. They worked together – her children had worked together to buy the perfect gift. They smiled as she gently tugged at the string and wrapped it in a neat littleContinue reading “A Present”
Sunday Snippet – It Won’t Happen Again
CHAPTER FIFTEEN LAURA Laura had dropped Tabitha off at school. With nothing else better to do, she took a walk directly to Langley college and handed in her application form. All she could do now was wait. Now she had a few hours, where she didn’t have to work, visit, or think of someone else,Continue reading “Sunday Snippet – It Won’t Happen Again”
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‘Bite down,’ the dentist said. She hadn’t been in the chair since she was a child and the dentist came at her with a needle so large, she broke the ten second hundred metres to get out of there. If it wasn’t for the immense pain crashing around her veins she wouldn’t be here now.Continue reading “https://fivedotoh.com/2021/12/18/fowc-with-fandango-bite/”
Fibbing Friday Answers
According to a song from a Disney animated movie, who put the “glad” in “gladiator”? Tramp in the movie ”Lady and the Tramp” when he battled with a rat to save the baby. 2. What classic Disney film showcased short animated sequences set to classical music scores? Mary Poppins when she flew in and outContinue reading “Fibbing Friday Answers”
#WRITEPHOTO – SNOWY PEAKS
Just over that ridge is a little cottage called home. Snow clinging to the heather as it melts away to reveal a hint of spring. At first the mist covers the view, but now the little cottage, with its smoke whispering its welcome fills me with hope. I can almost smell my mother’s bread waftingContinue reading “#WRITEPHOTO – SNOWY PEAKS”
It Wasn’t Me – Honest
They’re just so shiny, I can’t resist. My human insists on putting up the tree every year. Now those lights taunt me. All I want to do is tap one of those brightly coloured orbs of greatness. Just once. I’m addicted to baubles, I just can’t help it. They’re just so shiny.