Strawberry Fields Forever

image link Fandango’s FOWC is health, the Word of the Day Challenge is monotonous, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are velvet, cloud, hippie Strawberry Fields had been a hippie for over 50 years. Although the term had faded over the years, Strawberry’s free velvet spirit had not. She no longer saturated her lungs with…

dVerse — Haibun — March Madness

painting by Theresa Mangis Sink Merril is the host of dVerse today. Merril says: For this week’s Haibun Monday, I’d like you to write a haibun about March Madness as it pertains to you and your part of the world, whether it’s spring and spring madness OR some other change of season OR perhaps the…

#FFFC 3 Little Martin

  Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge is to write to the photo above. Warning:  content that some readers might find offensive. Forty years ago, Martin was born to his parents when both of them were in their early fifties. Martin’s parents had a lot of parties at their house which involved cards, poker, and alcohol. Martin,…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/4/19

From wikipedia: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm is the 13th studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in 1988. It was her third for Geffen Records. In early 1986, Mitchell and Larry Klein visited Peter Gabriel’s Ashcombe House recording studio in Bath, England. Since Gabriel had mostly finished his album So…

This is poetry…

My dVerse fellow poet, Rob Kistner, made a comment on one of my poems tonight that was so awesome, wise, and outstanding that I decided to make a meme out of it with one of the pictures I took awhile back at Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.  Thank you, Rob, for making my night.

Kangaroo Bandit

image link Fandango’s FOWC is reckoning, the Word of the Day Challenge is fragile, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are kangaroo, light bulb, taco Nobody thought much about when the kangaroo escaped from the zoo that June. They figured animal control would hunt it down and take it back and that would be that….

Story Starter Challenge #1

image link Teresa, The Haunted Wordsmith is starting a new challenge. Teresa says: Welcome to the new Story Starter Challenge! I am not sure how often this challenge will run (let me know in the comments what you would vote for), but I hope you enjoy this one. Rule: Use provided sentence somewhere in your…