Category Archives: Poems and short stories

Memories

This week’s questions from https://lssattitudeofgratitude.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/throwback-thursday-59-no-one-else-would-know/ are about family 1) Did you have multiple family generations nearby when growing up? I never knew my grandparents, as I was born when my parents were older (my dad was fifty, and Mum Thirty-Eight) I had many aunts and uncles, mostly from Mum’s side. I only met some ofContinue reading “Memories”

A Day of Curious Training

PROMPT #252 There is no restriction on format of our work. https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/reenas-xploration-challenge-252/ could seem a bit weird, odd, and causing chaos. But I love the different viewpoints of one picture. ‘What’s a little chaos?’ Tom said, as he sent an email to all his staff. ‘Don’t you think it’s a little weird, dressing in costumesContinue reading “A Day of Curious Training”

Film Night

This week from https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-233/ and our prompt is to write six sentences including film. ‘What film to do you want to watch tonight?’ Steve rifled through the video tapes on the shelf, not even sure what he wanted to watch, but as usual the television had the same old shows. He needed something upbeat, orContinue reading “Film Night”

Out of Hours

This week’s question from https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/truthful-tuesday-10-11-2022/ is about her pet peeve, being compelled to answer the phone or door. How polite do you find it to ignore the doorbell and/or the phone, especially if you’ve just begun to eat dinner or want to just veg out all by your lonesome? Why do we feel obligated toContinue reading “Out of Hours”

The Way Home

This week https://fivedotoh.com/2022/10/10/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-188/ Standing at the brink of success or failure, Tom stopped in the middle of the clearing. The autumn leaves littered the ground, in a crazy paving of colour. He loved being here, never felt like he was alone. Amongst the constant chatter of the birds, speaking to each other, he felt aContinue reading “The Way Home”

Blindsided

https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ and this is my interpretation of their prompt. Walking through the darkness, and the couple in front of me are mere shadows against the fog. It is like someone has taken a paintbrush and is slowly erasing the light. In two months, I won’t be able to see anything. There may be some light,Continue reading “Blindsided”

Alone

For this week’s prompt from https://weeklyprompts.com/2022/10/08/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-alone/ Where are you? Hours ago, or it seems like hours, you went into that funny little room I’m not allowed in. You take in a book, shut the door, and I wait outside for you to return. I don’t even know if you are going to return My headContinue reading “Alone”

Back of the Fridge

This week’s prompt on a Friday, for https://lindaghill.com/2022/10/07/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-oct-8-2022/ is Back of the fridge Barbara looked to the back of the fridge, in the hope there would be a lonely bar of chocolate there. It had been a long day, and she was struggling with the diet. She just wanted some comfort food. The only thingsContinue reading “Back of the Fridge”

In The Dark

Today’s word from https://fivedotoh.com/2022/10/08/fowc-with-fandango-twitch/ A twitch of his shoulders. I decide there and then what I needed to do. A person, who I once trusted with my life, is out to kill me, to get rid of any evidence in his involvement in drugs – in Joe’s death. He may not have given him theContinue reading “In The Dark”