The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: creative writing
From The Ground Up #carrotranch #99wordstories
This week’s prompt from the Carrot Ranch is February 6, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story as a love letter to nature. You could reach back to more pastoral times of writing or enter … Continue reading
Witch Service Do You Require? #writephoto
This week’s #writephoto prompt is Witch Service Do You Require? Dorian Pettimoron parked the van and lifted the clipboard from his colleague’s knees. As he checked the schedule he called behind him, ‘Prennie, your knees are fully charged. You want … Continue reading
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Mer: Musical Or Mendacious #blogbattle #merchant
Another month, another #blogbattle prompt, this one being Merchant Myths bubble up regularly. One such is the existence of the inaptly named ‘mermaid’. Inapt, not because she doesn’t exist but because the sexing of merpeople is extraordinarily difficult. Terming one … Continue reading
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The Bells (and other wotnots) #writephoto
This week’s writephoto prompt is ‘It’s a little known fact,’ intoned the guide as he pointed to Tower, ‘that the designer, Augustus Pugin, handed his plans to the chief architect, Charles Barry and then went bonkers. Some say it was … Continue reading
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Dish Of The Day #99wordstories
This week’s prompt from the Carrot Ranch is January 30, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about the dishes. It can be the every-single-day activity, a precious collection, or any other interpretation of dishes … Continue reading
Boating For Boys #writephoto
This week’s #writephoto prompt is Boating For Boys These days Little Tittweaking is almost equidistant for each of England’s many coasts. Back when the factious period extinction event (represented by the youreavingalaugh school pinpointing the moment when satire died due … Continue reading
Too Good #99wordstories #carrotranch
This week’s prompt is January 23, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that is optimistic. Feel free to explore optimism in all its forms from a positive mindset to toxic positivity. Is it a … Continue reading
A Wee Problem #writephoto
This week’s writephoto prompt is The Lady Faye Grance wrinkled her nose. Was that…? ‘Walter? Walter? Where are you?’ The Lady of the Royal Flush strode along the corridors and passages of Castle Bouquet, determined to find Walter Closet, Knight … Continue reading
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The Life And Times Of A Living Shadow #carrotranch #99wordstories
In response to this week’s prompt Priscilla Ou-Ette, Cill to her friends was Little Tittweaking’s shadow puppet expert. She found fame as an Influenza when she launched, in a sneeze of publicity, a set of personalised middle-finger shadows for the … Continue reading
Dynamic #blogbattle
A new #blogbattle prompt for the month is dynamic This is what emerged There are many examples of businesses moving with the times and then overstretching themselves, thinking they could apply previous lessons to a new dynamic. Contract killing wasn’t … Continue reading
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