Questions from https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/04/21/fibbing-friday-21st-april/ 1. Meeting the prospective in-laws for the first time. I’m looking after an aunty, and she can’t be on her own. 2. Going to your partner’s firm’s social evening where you know it will be talking shop all night. Is it this week, I thought it was last week and I needContinue reading “Not My Fault”
Category Archives: Poems and short stories
One Set – Never Alone
Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/reenas-xploration-challenge-277/ From footprints in the sand ”The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.” Whether you are religious or not, this is something I always remember. When going through tough times in my life, I didn’t feel like I was facing it aloneContinue reading “One Set – Never Alone”
Forgive and Forget
Written in response to https://fromcavewalls.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/forgiveness-tranquil-thursday-11/
All You Need is a Please
This week fromhttps://ronovanwrites.com/2023/04/19/ronovan-writes-sijo-wednesday-poetry-challenge-58-use-please-as-your-inspiration-this-week/ A Sijo has three lines, 14 to 16 syllable per line and has a total of 44 to 45 syllables. Please, a word that costs nothing, but gives everyone a sense of pride. To be asked not told, will create a positive chance to change. All you need is a please.
Surprise!
Written in response to https://fivedotoh.com/2023/04/18/fowc-with-fandango-age/ Dave didn’t want to think about his age, or that in a matter of days he would be sixty. In his head, he was retired anyway. Although, being that generation was a little strange. Old, no he wasn’t, just like an aged whisky. Someone was crouching behind a car, heContinue reading “Surprise!”
New Shoot
This week from https://christinebialczak.com/2023/04/18/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-04-18-2023/ A tiny shoot of hope, growing where an old key used to open the cell. Now, zoos were banned, plants were pushing through the rust, growing into something beautiful. He hardly wanted to touch the ancient lock. Why would he want to destroy life? Yet, he couldn’t let the jail remain.Continue reading “New Shoot”
No More Excuses
Written for https://ronovanwrites.com/2023/04/17/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-458-feel-and-tremor/ Crying; tears of shame Feel the tremor of earth’s rage no more excuses!
First Love
Written in response to the question https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/sunday-confessionals-fleeting Something I thought would last forever, but faded over time. As a teenager, you think your first love will last forever, but fades over time. The first time I ”fell in love” I was fourteen. He drove a Radio Rentals van, and was three years older than me.Continue reading “First Love”
Best Friends
Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/reenas-xploration-challenge-276/ ‘I’m stuck, what do I write next B Bot?’ ‘I am not sure I understand the question.’ B Bot sat on the floor, next to his friend Stephen, his computer cells whirring. He would never understand a human. Writing, wasn’t that copying what you had read before. He read many things, couldContinue reading “Best Friends”
Bucket and Cloth
This week from https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/04/09/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-257/ Toby had many jobs over the years. When he was in university he worked as a valet, although that wasn’t quite his role. More like he stood at the kerbside with a bucket and a cloth, asking if they wanted their window screens washed. It wasn’t the greatest job. Although heContinue reading “Bucket and Cloth”
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