PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart “How’s the suite? What’s that sound?” Jill asks. “Roomy with lots of windows. It’s a thunderstorm.” Jack says. “Ooh, nice! And a thunderstorm sounds cozy. Take a pic, I want to see!” says Jill. Jack snaps a quick pic, then sends. Jill zooms in on the bits of figures in…
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Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge – Part 5 Treat
Lok suggested the Cairo Jazz Bar and offered to drive. When the waiter came to their table to ask if they wanted a third round, Jean piped up and said, “We have an early morning tomorrow. Shall we call it a night?” There was a pregnant pause and then the other 3 began to push…
Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge — Part 4 Trick?
Part 4 Trick? While the students puzzled together the bones in an arrangement that made sense, Professor Sadek added two more students to Jean and Morrie’s team and began communicating with the Thebes Council to gain permissions for a dig at the place where the “animal bones” were found. Professor Sadek kept her thoughts and…
Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge Day 3 — Skeleton
image link Part 3 Skeleton Six years had gone by. Jean left for Egypt after high school to study paleontology and Marty left to study forensic physiology in Mexico. They may have parted physically, but their friendship was still very much alive via Zoom, text, and other various technologies. Although their cave hangout was in…
Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge — Day 2 Bats
image link Part 2 Marty and Jean decided to play hooky from school that late autumn early afternoon. Their summer hangout at the lake was windy and chilly, and so they decided to walk down into the gulch for shelter. Normally hidden by trees’ leaves, as they rounded a boulder on the path, they saw…
Tourmaline’s Halloween Challenge Day 1 – Monster
This is my first year participating in this challenge and I’m excited to give it a try. I have no idea how my experiment will work out but I’m going to try to write one long Halloween story for the challenge, one part per day that will include the day’s word. Part 1 If you…
#FF — Timeless
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Merle’s now-silver, but still-wavy hair shines like a beacon from a block away. He’s sitting at their bench, the one they met at each afternoon after classes. The campus has changed so much, but the iron bench remains, the same deep blue the sky has on a clear day. Marie…
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