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…
Category: fiction
Friday Fictioneers — Barbed reminders
PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays A once-lush forest was now wasteland. Humans moved in and cut down all of the trees. Once the trees were gone, there was nothing protecting the soil from the scorching sun; it became barren. The wild animals left. Arrogant humans’ ego-driven cravings for ownership built fences for “their” domesticated…
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…
Twittering Tales #135 – 7 May 2019 — Symbiosis
Kat is the host of Twittering Tales. Kat says: For this week I selected this amazing photograph by JPlenio at pixabay.com of a storm rolling in over a Canada skyline. At least it looks like a storm…or could it be an alien invasion (I know how some of you love that topic )…or the apocalypse?…
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….
Fire-breathing Job via del Toro (fiction)
Fandango’s FOWC is finest, the Word of the Day Challenge is seam, Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are dragon, logic, lawnmower , and Teresa’s Haunted Wordsmith Daily Prompt is the photo. Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay For anyone who has watched the film, Lawnmower Man, you know that, aside from Tron, it’s the finest…
