Photo Challenge #418 a photo prompt by https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/. It is amazing what the eye will see, or not see. Sarah rubbed at her temples, her headache getting slowly worse. Merlin, her German Shephard, allowed her some safety, but everything felt strange. Not just because her world was slowly getting smaller. The peripheral sight getting blurredContinue reading “Tunnel Vision”
Category Archives: Poems and short stories
The Blue Skies of Dover
The blue skies reminded the older woman of the days when she was relaxing after a days work at the munitions factory. She didn’t know how much she enjoyed going to work until her husband came back from the war. Then she didn’t really believe he came back at all – not her husband anyway.Continue reading “The Blue Skies of Dover”
My Little Boat
https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/author/sadje19/ word or picture prompt for this week is a calm river. When I was little there was a little dip in my back garden, and on a sunny day I would take my toys and play. It was a little bit of heaven in a chaotic world. In my little, red boat, I canContinue reading “My Little Boat”
Strawberry Moon
Strawberry Moon Shine over our beautiful land; an angel of peace. Written for Eugi’s weekly prompt.
Joking Around
Pensivity 101, thank you for the word prompt today. Three words SQUIDTENTACLEINSET ‘Here’s the sick squid I owe you,’ he said. It was a tentacle of a joke, an old one, but a goodie. Steve needed a laugh today. He was turning thirty, and it felt like his twenties had slipped by too quickly. TheContinue reading “Joking Around”
Kindness
https://nopenotpam.com/ gives us writers a letter a week. This week the letter is Place – kentucky Emotion – kindness Adjective – knockout Verb – kick My animal – kangaroo Sarah walked past the same man every day. Winter was worse this year, and the frost went through to her skin. She ordered her normal KentuckyContinue reading “Kindness”
Potato
The humble potato, and a vegetable we can always rely on. We can mash them, and they go lovely with steak pie, or sausages. We can fry them, as chips or wedges. We can bake them, in their jackets. You can make crisps with them. However you cook them they are delicious.
Subscribers
Fandango’s word of the day is Subscribe ‘Why have you subscribed to the cooking channel? You can’t even cook.’ ‘I want to learn then . . . I mean didn’t you like your dinner yesterday?’ Blair said. Sarah pushed the pizza box further under the table. Dinner was a strange affair last night. He mixedContinue reading “Subscribers”
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/06/11/fowc-with-fandango-tense/
The prompt word from Fandango today is Tense. ‘You need to relax, the doctor said. Relax, relax! It was difficult to relax when faced with high blood pressure. Charlie watch the monitor and the sleeve kept getting tighter and tighter. The more she tensed, the more the blood pressure went sky high. ‘So, it seemsContinue reading “https://fivedotoh.com/2022/06/11/fowc-with-fandango-tense/”
Drip, Drip, Drop
Pensivity gives us three words for their https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/three-things-challenge-990/ RAINSTRUTFREED Summer in Britain was like no other country in the world. It was the only place Helen could strut in the rain, wearing a summer dress and wellington boot ensemble. Seasons weren’t strange to her – she lived in this funny little island all her life.Continue reading “Drip, Drip, Drop”
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