Image by Elsemargriet from Pixabay Since I was a young child, it has been hammered into my head that humans share the planet with wildlife. This has given me a base of kindness and conservation for nature’s intricate ecosystems. In college my field of study was aquatic biology. Each summer, a group of students traveled…
Category: Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC)
The Story of The House of Haggis
Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay Rita was driving from Minneapolis to Wisconsin for the Annual Storytellers Festival that was held every year in Madison. Caught in the crosshairs of interest and talent, the organizers heard Rita telling a story in the hotel lounge last year and were impressed, as Rita was an accomplished storyteller….
Zigzag (Wo)man
image link My name is Baron, yes, Baron, and I’ve been robbing banks all of my life. Bank robbing and prison go together like tea and honey, like frogs and ponds; you’ll seldom find one without the other. There’s always going to be somebody saying, “Put the money in the bag.” There’s always going to…
Climbing (mature audiences warning)
image link At thirty-five years old, Andy became the youngest professor to chair the Semantics Department at Hoddopscott University. Andy was at the apex of his career, and no one would dispute he’d worked his butt off for it. He had left a string of scorched corpses, personal and professional, along the way, but in…
Please Tell My Story
Fandango’s FOWC is forthright, the Word of the Day Challenge is noodle, Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are truck, skin, library , and Teresa’s Haunted Wordsmith’s Daily Prompt is the photo below. Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay Willy woke up in a forthright state of mind and thought, “Today is the day I begin research…
The Garden of Goddess Danu
Fandango’s FOWC is anyway, the Word of the Day challenge is river, Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are ghost, loan, password , and Teresa’s Haunted Wordsmith Daily Prompt is the picture below. Rodolfo was the right hand servant of Danu, Goddess of the Rivers. When the goddess loaned her water divining rod to Anubis, the…
Blue Sign
image link Fandango’s FOWC is battle, the Word of the Day Challenge is delight, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are star, lake, telegram . It was the blue star cluster that the prophecies had fortold, shining over Lake Orio, its reflection in the water laid out as it was on the ancient tapestry….
Tao Talk 