A Guy Called Bloke has started Season 2 of 1000 Words Worth. The challenge is to write a 1000-word story to the pictures above. Hope you enjoy the tale! From the time Vela was in her mother’s womb, she’d been lulled by rhythms of water. Aside from the amniotic sac she floated in, Vela’s parents…
Category: fiction
Story Starter Challenge — Colloquialorigin Story
Teresa from The Haunted Wordsmith has given the Story Starter Challenge of: “Heavens to betsy, why’d you do that?“ Betsy had been a nervous child since infancy. Loud noises caused an exaggerated startle reflex. Strangers meant running and hiding behind her mother. When school started, Betsy was too timid to speak to the other children….
Dance for the Devil
image link Fandango’s FOWC is victim, the Word of the Day Challenge is team, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are uranium, moss, dancer Nancy grew up in Janesville, a town that was comprised of a bar, a church, a hardware store, a mom n pop grocery store, an elementary and middle school (the high…
Twittering Tales #26 – This Is It – 5 March 2019
Kat is the host of Twittering Tales. Kat says: Your mission, if you choose to accept the challenge, is to tell a story in 280 characters or less. REMEMBER…you have 280 characters (spaces and punctuation included), to tell your tale…and a week to do it. Photo by Johnathan Basquez at Unsplash.com Donna’s phone…
Story Starter Challenge
Teresa at The Haunted Wordsmith is the host of Story Starter Challenge. Teresa says: Welcome to the new Story Starter Challenge! Every day I will post a new sentence prompt. Use the provided sentence somewhere in your post. It can be a starting sentence, closing sentence, anything you choose. Read it and see where the…
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…
#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,…
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