Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Writing Prompts

Picnic

Written for Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts –
The One Day Prompt
. The image is courtesy of
Crispina Kemp’s Picture Post Sunday; I have

included her original photo caption into the body
of my story. Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Flash, Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Lemon and Salt

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.

This is where the prompt took me.

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Photo Prompt, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Promise They Carry

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge
where the theme this week is “peace”.
This is where the prompts took me.

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Mystery, Noir, Recurring Character, Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

Up All Night: A Dirk Malone Story

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

mind, visit, thinking, creature, exists, criminal,
know, dirt, walk, head, writer, and rumbles

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Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

In Time

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

cold, day, father, held, just, known,
rain, resolve, six, small, time, and renew

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Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Scene We Never Shot

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #239 –
“It started with a chance meeting on a film-set” –
and for Missy’s MAD Challenge #085 where the theme is
“A memory you’ve never had suddenly becomes
vivid and real”.  Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Writing Prompts

Uninvited Guest

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge #079
. I chose Pic #4.

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Continuing Story, Original Series, Short Story

Housecalls – Part 5: What He Was Like

You can read Part 4 HERE.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Last Night

Written for Muse On Monday where David
has asked us to write a story about someone
who is afraid to go to sleep. Here’s my take.

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Mini Story, Photo Prompt, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Deep Freeze

Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers.
This is where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Thursday: egregious

Written for RDP, where bushboy asks us
 to get creative with the word “egregious”.
Thanks, Brian! Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Adventure, Mystery, Recurring Character, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Fob and the Falcon: A Jackson DeWitt Story

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
Our 12 prompt words appear below
Here’s where the prompt took me.

modern, change, steep, twice, list, ring,
leaf, beast, yet, mace, fob, and hole

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Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Locked In

Written for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge
using the word ‘tunnel’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Ring

Written for Muse On Monday where David
has asked us to write a story where one
character knows another is lying to them.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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Mini Story, Mystery, Photo Prompt, Writing Prompts

Vanished

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge
#078. I chose Pic #1.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Free Verse, Poetry, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Keeper Of Delusions

Written for David’s Wea’ve Written Weekly
where our PoW Dennis asks us to write a
poem in which we are a lighthouse.
Thanks for the prompt, Dennis & David!

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Short Story, Song, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

The Tide Doesn’t Wait

Written for Thursday Inspiration #324 –
“Gentle On My Mind”. Here’s my response.

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Informative, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

RDP Thursday: diabolical

Written for RDP where bushboy asks us to
get creative with the word “engine”.
Thanks, Brian! Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Short Story, Writing Prompts

Shadows At The Crown

When I saw this photo on Brian’s site,
Bushboys World, I knew I wanted to
write something. Here it is. Thanks to
Brian for the use of his wonderful photo.

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Mystery, Noir, Recurring Cgaracter, Short Story, Word Challenge, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Big Charade: A Dirk Malone Mystery

Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

façade, doubts, curiosity, bitter, torn, hit,
restless, hope, massive, frail, strip, and sting

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Short Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Will

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
The prompt words are shown below.

Here’s where they took me.


default,
family, generations, glue, memories,
miss, welcomed, loved, accepted, included, and divorce

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Mystery, Photo Prompt, Scary Story, Short Story, Writing Prompts

Ancient One

Written for Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative
Challenge
#077. I chose Pic #3.
Here’s where the image took me.

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Mystery, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Married To The Mob

Written for “It’s Story Time” where
Jolene has given us four prompts to
work with. They are shown below.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

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Short Story, Flash, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

For Nina

Written for Muse On Monday where David
has asked us to write a story about being
stuck in traffic. Here’s my response.

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Cinquain, Poetry, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Making A Change

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #43 where our
inspiration is “rebel”. Here’s my mirror cinquain.

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Literary Quote, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Possession

Written for Violet’s Literary Quote Challenge
where she asks us to include the following line
into our writing: “A fire can’t burn forever.
Eventually, it consumes itself” from “My
Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult. Here’s my take.

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Photo Prompt, Phrase Prompt, Short Story, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

Grafton

Written for Fandango’s Story Starter #237.
The image I used is courtesy of  Brian Dodd at
Bushboys World. Please check out his amazing
site. Here’s my story with Fan’s prompt line.

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Poetry, Shadorma, Theme Prompt, Writing Prompts

On Mute: A Shadorma

Written for David’s W3 Prompt #202: Wea’ve Written Weekly

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Poetry, Word Prompt, Writing Prompts

Tiny Dancer

Written for Living Poetry where our host,
Bartholomew, asks us to write a poem
about shadows. Here’s my response.

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Flash, Mini Story, Word Challenge, Word Prompt, Wordle, Writing Prompts

The Antique Shop

Written for MLMM Monday Wordle.
Here’s where the prompts took me.

cushion, old, turtle, claw, shape, unusual,
chime, music, private, single, shine, and price

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