image link Fandango’s FOWC is percolate, the Word of the Day Challenge is bovine, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are: shortbread, cannon, guru Mongo, the guru, rode into the mud streets of the Old West town on a Mount Olympus-sized bovine named Pete. The townsfolk had sent their best rider to find Mongo and…
YPQ — Memories are a Many Splendored Thing
Fandango’s always brain-in-gear provocative question for this week is: “How do you know which of your memories are genuine and which have been altered over time or even made up?” My memories are valid. You do have to acknowledge that they were “recorded” back at the time they happened. You do not exist in a…
One-Liner Wednesday — Don’t do it
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Coloring Club Plus — 3/6/19
Daddy’z Breakdown is a Grand Rapids, MI band I was lucky enough to see when I went to a little place called Tip Top Deluxe to see another band playing that night. I bought their CD, which they were selling at the show. I went back to see them the next time they played. This…
1000 Words Worth — Season 2 — Water Baby
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…
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…
