Written for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/its-thursdays-six-sentence-story-blog-hop-48/ Picking up a pen, allowing our words to flow on the page, creating characters, with likes, dislikes, and an adventure we can control. The author shares the new setting, where there was nothing but smooth paper. Where do we get our inspiration? Perhaps our views weave into the silk thread of theirContinue reading “Creating Characters”
Category Archives: Weekly Word Prompts
Be Positive
Written for https://lindaghill.com/2025/12/03/one-liner-wednesday-i-dont-think-this-is-mathing/ Wake up to a new dawn, with a positive attitude, and see the gorgeous colours light the sky like a smile from heaven.
Happy Clouds
Written for https://skepticskaddish.com/category/poetry/poetry-prompt/ This is a poem I wrote a few years ago, but it fit the brief of comedy. A picnic to share A horse and a toad, Skipped down the road, Happy clouds cooling the day, With a lump of cheese, And cake if you please, They sang in the month of May.Continue reading “Happy Clouds”
One Day
Written for https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/11/29/weekly-prompts-the-one-day-prompt-19/ A child counts the years in quarters and halves. I couldn’t wait until I was ten. Being in double figures felt like I had grown up. Sixteen, and leaving school was my next goal. Another two years until I was eighteen. Although in the drinking stakes, I was glad we didn’t haveContinue reading “One Day”
A Loving Hope
Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ Charlotte leaned into her reflection. Her silent tears fell, each forgotten wish merged with her scarlet cheeks, as she pressed her palm into the freezing glass. The dark nights, long and relentless, were an endless worry dump. Her mobile rang, and at first, she thought about not answering. On the seventh ring,Continue reading “A Loving Hope”
Happy Accident
Written for https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/category/word-of-the-day/ I always think of myself as a happy accident. My mum was thirty-nine, and my dad was fifty when I was born. My sister was sixteen years older and my brother is ten years my senior. he said that was untrue. He was clearly sixty. That’s okay with me, because that makesContinue reading “Happy Accident”
Keyboard Bopping
Written for https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/11/24/laughing-along-with-a-limerick-259/ There was a lady who loved shopping, Black Friday deals got her keyboard bopping. she spent all her dough her bank didn’t know and thought that a hacker went robbing
Love Wins
Written for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/sundays-six-sentence-story-prompt-word-5/ She twisted her gold wedding ring off her finger. As it rested on her palm, she wondered when it had all changed. It hadn’t even been a year. What would her mum say? Urge her to put the romance back in her marriage or give up at the first terrible Tic Toc?Continue reading “Love Wins”
I’m All of a Fib
Written for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/fibbing-friday-21st-november/ 1. Imbroglio The language of a teenager when talking to their friends. 2, Ish A so, so sort of emotion, when you wrap all your presents, and still need paper. 3, Insouciant When ants get trapped in soup, and their friends have to save them by making a bridge. 4. Inanition Another word for notContinue reading “I’m All of a Fib”
Inseparable
Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/reenas-xploration-challenge-408/ Candles floated along the river as he remembered his friends. When they were children, they were inseparable. Whether it was watching Harry Potter films, playing in the park, or swimming in the lake, there was laughter. If they argued, they always resolved it before going home. He picked up his mobile asContinue reading “Inseparable”