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Daily Prompt: Time After Time: #Coffee #Ritual

Traditions: we’ve all got ‘em. They might be family dinners on special occasions, or having a particular kind of cake on your birthday (Jeanne Cake, natch), or popcorn at the movies, or meeting your...

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Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty #DPChallenge #WritersWednesday

For this week’s challenge, you must write a fifty-word story. Not five thousand, not five hundred, but precisely fifty words. It looked familiar. That place I knew, without knowing its name. The river,...

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#VisDare 70: Aloft #Fifty

In my mind I see you dancing, fireflies in the cloudy sky. Who are you: ghosts from a hidden past, forgotten dreams? In the warm air you climb, perhaps ascending slowly to join the mothership? Where...

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#FiveSentenceFiction: Envy

The moon appeared, a moody silvery face half masked by grey clouds, just above the trees. The young woman moved slowly through the quiet house: it was still early, perhaps before seven in the old clock...

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#FiveSentenceFiction: Vindictive

Inspired by the character of Theo Decker in The Goldfinch I saw the cruel rictus on his lips, my friend on his knees, bleeding, the spent cartridges on the dirty concrete floor, and I knew: I would be...

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#AtoZChallenge2015: quandary

I found a definition in Wiktionary for quandary, a word which somehow intrigues me. So it goes: “Etymology: 16th century. Origin unknown; perhaps a dialectal corruption (simulating a word of Latin...

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#Writing space (Thursday’s Musings) #amwriting

The desk is littered:  photographs of the sublime Italian model he worships, another of himself in the Dolomites with two small children – now young adults – a postal card of Paul Klee’s “The Saint of...

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#DailyPrompt: Of Glass & Paper

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “All About Me.” The lens lies on the desk, reflecting the evening light. Since this is the longest day of the year, I have plenty of time still to think...

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#DailyPrompt: Dictionary… #150words

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Dictionary, Shmictionary.” Time to confess: tell us about a time when you used a word whose meaning you didn’t actually know (or were very wrong about,...

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Season’s Greetings

  This year, No snow yet, Time will tell… Tagged: being slow, Mother, Photography, snow, writer's blog

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