Written for https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/01/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-179/ ‘It only seems like yesterday we were taking the training wheels off your bike,’ Terry’s mum said. Helping sort out the boxes, it was her way of staying close to her daughter. So grown up, it didn’t seem possible she was moving in with her boyfriend. She hadn’t even got the weddingContinue reading “Leaving Home”
Category Archives: Poems and short stories
Amateur Writer
#blogging insights has given us this food for thought. I agree in the most part, many of the writers on Word press, are amateur writers, who didn’t quit. They write most days, and learn from the feedback they get off other writers. About ten years ago, I wrote my first book, and was definitely anContinue reading “Amateur Writer”
Ghost
https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/author/reinventionsreena/ word prompt ”The only ghost that scares is a past version of you and https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/wordle-561/. The only ghost that scares is a past version of you, were the words trickling through her dreams. Night after night, spirits would call their warning. A low growl, followed by a dark hum and she would see thingsContinue reading “Ghost”
Ring Toss
A word prompt from sammiscribbles.worpress.com and to write a story, poem in 86 words. A Jamboree fair, as the days of summer bring a new light to the village. Tamara stood at the entrance, and looked forward to the day when she would win the biggest prize there. She had been there every year,Continue reading “Ring Toss”
Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly
‘She wouldn’t hurt a fly,’ Sarah said, as they handcuffed all eight arms of her friend. Her web was still in the trees, where she had built her intricate silk home. It wasn’t her fault it was sticky, and that other creatures were lured to their doom. She had tried making it out of otherContinue reading “Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly”
City of Spells – Review
This week’s review is for the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge. I am reviewing City of Spells by Alexandra Christo. This is not my normal genre, and I found the first book, Into The Crooked Place, the first in the series, in a Tesco, second hand book, charity section. The cover intrigued me, and as IContinue reading “City of Spells – Review”
Guilt
Today’s Word of the day, fromhttps://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/author/cyranny/ is Guilt. Giving yourself a difficult time under horrible circumstances in conditions you would forgive others for. let the ghost of the past stop talking, tell them what to do for once.
Holiday
The word today, from Fandango, is vast. ‘The world is a vast place,’ Mum said. ‘It’s time you moved out and started a life for yourself.’ ‘But where will I go, what will I do for money?’ ‘You’re a bank manager, you’ll think of something, and besides your forty years old, it’s about time youContinue reading “Holiday”
A New Start
FOWC with Fandango, and his word today is Accord.https://fivedotoh.com/2022/07/27/fowc-with-fandango-accord/ Walking down one road, then the next, I arrive in a small village, so different to the city life I have just left. I turn to my left, and there is a pub, with a thatched roof, and a sign saying ”Haven Hollow”. I look upContinue reading “A New Start”
Sundae on a Sunday
Written for Wordle # 280 and https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/ A sundae, always on a Sunday. Bless the pool of multi-coloured sludge, mixed together in a child’s memory. Little silver platters full of hot, fudgy, pancakes. Covered in maple syrup. Tiny sprinkles on top like pixie butterflies in my stomach
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