Written for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/fibbing-friday-22nd-august/ 1. What is a saga? A soap opera; full of life, death, and divorce. 2. What is a synopsis? When someone his hypnotised and reveal their dark secrets. 3. What is a dialect? When you talk on a rotary phone. 4. What is a goblin? When you eat too much cake. 5.Continue reading “Fibbing”
Category Archives: Weekly Word Prompts
Teaching Assistant
Written for https://thesoundofonehandtyping.com/category/writers-workshop-2/ In September, last year, I found the courage to go back into college education and have a go at a GCSE math course. In 2020, I attended an English course, and gained a level 7 (A) Working in a school, as a teaching assistant, I support students in their classroom and oneContinue reading “Teaching Assistant”
Fresh Air
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ At midnight, the thunder and lightning fighting for attention. Worthy adversary’s ready to triumph at any cost. Amanda couldn’t look away. Each bright flash illuminating the sky. A grumbling sound, seconds later, the storm strides on. After the battle receded into nothing but a rumble, she creeps under the covers. A yearsContinue reading “Fresh Air”
And Counting
Growing up, time to be independent. Written for https://thesoulsearchersite.wordpress.com/category/6wsp/ I remember when I was a child, counting my birthday in months. I longed to be independent, and live my own life. We are not protected for long. As an adult I realise those childhood memories are one of the most precious I own.
Keep it Simple
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/08/15/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-aug-16-2025/ Being an author is something I’ve always loved. Frome the age of five, words can create a world without moving from my home. Lately, it feels like I am trawling through fractured memories, and nothing but a swamp, filled with spikes, erases everything on the page. When I was on holiday, IContinue reading “Keep it Simple”
Different Meaning
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/08/13/one-liner-wednesday-sounds-like-the-start-of-a-dickens-novel/ Fan whirring in the background, there is never a comfortable level of heat to sleep. I’m not sure that heatwave has a different meaning a few years ago. I remember 1976, where there was a hosepipe ban from July, right through to the end of August. There was no break in theContinue reading “Different Meaning”
Wise Choice
Written for https://ronovanwrites.com/category/american-cinquain-prompt/ Parents Keeping children protected with a strong choice for change. Nobody can hurt our kin.
Reality
Written for https://dversepoets.com/2025/08/12/dverse-poetics-tuesday-power/ Parents hope for the power to protect children from harm. Yet if a politician makes the wrong call, using their words as a weapon? Our protection will fall as a torrent of bombs and bullets bend reality to their will. Yet there is hope for the power to protect our children fromContinue reading “Reality”
Sharing Tea
Written for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/share-your-world-11th-august/ 1. Do you prefer bar food, a restaurant, cafe or tea rooms? I don’t mind where I go to eat. On holiday we went to a tea room, where they served scones, cream and jam, with a pot of tea. Above us they had a trellis where sparrows flew around, tempted byContinue reading “Sharing Tea”
Orvieto
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ Alessandra didn’t care; she sang out of tune. Mamma Maria; her mum’s favourite song. When it played on the radio, nothing could hurt her. Italian dialects filled the air. A lost language – too painful to be spoken. Yet, in song, love shared an allowance of hope. The kitchen is for singing,Continue reading “Orvieto”
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