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…
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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…
#FF — birthday celebration
PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas Only a keen eye notices the garlic; if they do, they know I am a gardener and think nothing of it. Six summers ago, neighborhood pets start disappearing. By August, it is children. In December, l lay the trap, and on New Year’s Eve, it takes the bait. Its silver…
#FF — Like a King
PHOTO PROMPT © Trish Nankeville Harald lived with his family over the fence. Wise Queen Martha chose Gene’s yard. Gene was a gardener who enjoyed bringing new cultivars home. He squeezed them into the already overflowing beds from spring until fall; a dazzling array of colors and fragrances. When Gene planted cushion hakea, Harald went…
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