Written in response to https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/09/29/fibbing-friday-29th-september/ 2. Mohican It is the bubbles on top of your hair when you have a long soak in a bath with a book. 3. French Plait It is like an English plate, but full of frog legs instead of chicken. 4. Pageboy A boy, who reads a menu in aContinue reading “A Pack of Lies”
Category Archives: Weekly Word Prompts
Attempted
Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/reenas-xploration-challenge-300/ Optimism, is a half glass full type of thing, that’s what Terry used to think. No matter what happened in her life, she attempted to see the positive. If she were working long hours at work, it was more time to spend with colleagues. If the car broke down, she would loseContinue reading “Attempted”
Play Time
Written this week for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/its-thursdays-six-sentence-story-link-up-57/ Sipping her milk, Sheila sat on the floor contemplating life. There were so many things she could do, but she didn’t know what to play with first. Her best friend Alice was putting on her coat to go outside. Perhaps she could go on the slide or even the swings.Continue reading “Play Time”
Autumn
Written for https://pcguyiv.wordpress.com/2023/09/26/truthful-tuesday-september-26th-2023/ Now that autumn is here, and October is almost upon us, what are you looking forward to over the course of the next three months? The weather finally cooling down, so I can wear my jumpers and cardigans. When it is hot, there is no relief, but when it is cold, youContinue reading “Autumn”
Underrated Writers
Written for https://jewishyoungprofessional.wordpress.com/2023/09/27/jyprovocative-question-4-underrated/ They ask us bloggers what is underrated. I think writing a book is underrated. Most people (not writers obviously) do not realise the hard work creating a book, or a short story, or a poem requires of the author. It took me seven years to write, edit, rewrite my book. During Covid,Continue reading “Underrated Writers”
Sewing Box
Photo image by Holly Booth Written today for https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/09/26/photo-challenge-483/ Her nan’s old sewing box stood on the table, and it was like she was there. Darning a hole in a school sock, or sewing buttons on her shirt. She loved spending time with Nanny, not just because she made the best sausage and spaghetti, butContinue reading “Sewing Box”
Shadow
Written today for https://bbubble.in/2023/09/26/twenty-words-tuesday-week-6/ and their prompt word shadow A shadow, lingering in the corner hunting them down like they are insignificant ants scurrying into a safety net of love.
My First Teacher
My answers for https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/share-your-world-25th-september/ 1. Do you remember your first teacher at school? My first teacher, I remember at school was Miss Taylor. She was in the last two years of my infant school (two years, as my birthday fell in December) She was kind, and wore red glasses. I don’t remember my first teacher.Continue reading “My First Teacher”
Yet!
This week’s prompt from https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/ Barbed wire mind constantly giving unwanted feedback, shaping thoughts into a minefield of self destruction. Worry, fear, a sense of foreboding, always there . . . Yet! We can change our view, give ourselves a chance of survival; Focus on the things, which make us happy. A walk in theContinue reading “Yet!”
Endless Journey
Written for https://melissalemay.wordpress.com/2023/09/25/4793/ who has taken over Fandango’s Flash Fiction. An endless journey, where it is difficult to find where you started, and how far you have come. Sometimes it feels like there are so many mountains, Sam couldn’t figure out whether it was worth waking up at all. Each day was the same, fullContinue reading “Endless Journey”
Writer Ravenclaw 