Category Archives: Poems and short stories

Stacey wiped her hands on the back of her neck. She needed to articulate her ideas in a quiet, careful, and decisive manner, but it was difficult to see through the haze of doubt. It had been a year since she was even given the chance to give a proposal. Her manager thought it wasContinue reading “Articulate – From Word of the day prompt”

Darkness in his controlling heart, Wanting perfection, in all that he surveys. It covers their marriage like black oil, and no matter how hard she tries, it is never enough. One day, she hopes, that she will be good enough. One day she will be perfect.

Once I resided in a beautiful lounge, amongst the fashion conscience and well to do. Now I’m forgotten at the charity shop. My foam sneaks out from the velvet, but it is pushed back into place. Kind hearts make me fit for use again. I sit here, at a charity shop, waiting. Waiting for someoneContinue reading “https://fivedotoh.com/2021/08/06/fowc-with-fandango-foam/”

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/scarlet/ Scarlet, a hue of danger. A colour of painted nails, and high heeled shoes. Writers use it as a hint to something dangerous happening. If you see this shade of colour in a book. Beware. Something ominous will be about to occur. Yet I look at the world around me. Everything is in aContinue reading “Scarlet – Word of the day prompt”

Whatever the Weather According to the weatherman it was going to be sunny today, but in the UK that ca mean anything. Sunny, with a few showers is the norm. We are so unused to any hot weather, when we do have a few days of sun, nothing but complaining is heard throughout the country.Continue reading “https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/your-daily-word-prompt-accord-ydwordprompt-august-5-2021/”

‘This type of work load is unsustainable,’ Sheila said, as her another pile of letters were thrown on her desk like confetti. It was just another day at the office, and meetings had to be typed up, orders placed, and whole lot of phone calls answered. Since Colleen had resigned, she worked alone. Normally, asContinue reading “https://fivedotoh.com/2021/08/05/fowc-with-fandango-sustain/”

Jiggling Jelly in a bowl. In amongst vanilla ice-cream. Great memories as a child. Given this as a special treat. Levels of texture and taste. Ending with a smile on my face.

https://fivedotoh.com/2021/08/04/fowc-with-fandango-bone/ This made me think of one of my favourite television programmes – Bones. I recently binge watched all the episodes on Disney channel. It was weird, there were some episodes I didn’t know the end of. But there were some episodes I could remember word for word. I’ve also read the books, that theContinue reading “Fandango’s daily word prompt”