Copyright: ALEXEY AVDEEV This-es and thats for the year complete Gathered with care, for Time Clown’s feat Put on strings he makes them rise As soon they’ll say goodbye Old makes way for new With hope so true This New Year Comes with Cheer Sadje is the host of What Do You See? Sadje’s prompt…
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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #47 — Burning a Bridge
Hen was the middle child and had sisters just a year older and a year younger, both of whom grew into great beauties by their early twenties. In order to compete with her sisters, she developed her sharp intellect into verbal riparte that could mesmerize even the most smitten away from the object of their…
#FF — The Price of Freedom
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook On summer afternoons, teenagers walk past, laughing and chasing each other, most times oblivious of our existence as anything other than a pile of rocks. Occasionally one will say, “Look at that pile of rocks!” How cavalier young people of today are! They wouldn’t believe it if we told them…
What do you see? #9 Two Against the World
Image Credit: yo Jumba had lived in the forest alone ever since poachers had wiped out her entire herd. Jumba had been asleep on the moss near the stream when the ambush in the meadow occurred or she would have also been killed. Jumba was just old enough to have been weaned or she may…
#FFFC 46 –The Benefactor
Babette had been born to a mother who, for unknown reasons, was unable to keep her newborn infant, so Babette was raised by the Order for Calm and Peace. The Order was funded by produce from the organic gardens and orchards, which were sold at the market each week. Nobody ever went hungry at the…
#FF — Chilled Return
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson On Christmas Eve morning, Richard heard the iron gates of Ionia Prison slam shut behind him. He walked two miles to the bus depot, then rubbed life back into his now-numb hands before buying a ticket to Montague. Richard stopped for a cuppajoe, then went to the cemetery, where he…
#FFFC 45 — Tardisian Travails
The Tardis landed with a resounding thud. Dr. Who was confident he’d find the right materials to repair his magic screwdriver, which controlled the Tardis, wherever and whenever they had landed. The most curious thing about this warp was K9 turning into a man. It was the first time anything like this had happened. He…
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