Sharing an old short story this week which is based on a job that I had about 18 years ago! I once spent an entire summer miming keyboards for a cabaret band that I had previously worked as a roadie for. I was ‘The Mime Artist’ It ranks in the top ten strangest ways thatContinueContinue reading “Flashback Friday #4- The Mime Artist”
Category Archives: Short Stories
Christmas Writing Challenge #3
The Man Who Came To Stay For Christmas Twas the night before Christmas and Princess Clarissa was all alone in her castle. Another year had gone by without a prince to come and marry her. But a horrid snowstorm was brewing and with it, the bitter winter winds brought a strange unconscious man to herContinueContinue reading “Christmas Writing Challenge #3”
Christmas Writing Challenge #2
Grumpy The Christmas Elf Grumpy was an elf who hated Christmas. He was the slowest of all of the toy-making elves in the North Pole, and after three warnings, Santa sacked him. The first unemployed elf ever found himself out of a job, and out of cheer. He moved around from town-to-town getting grouchier andContinueContinue reading “Christmas Writing Challenge #2”
Writing Prompt #15
Today’s creative writing prompts are…. 1. The dogs of war have just been fed. 2. Yellow. Or, use the picture! Link this post in anything that you write, as always I look forward to seeing your responses!
Writing Collab #15- Camino Sunrise
These circles of distraction
sky-high goals
Writing Prompt #14
1. Did I ever tell you about my pet kangaroo?
2. My mind was completely empty and then it struck me.
Writing Prompt #13
Steady there. Don’t drop the…
I haven’t the heart to tell you.
Writing Prompt #12
This was literally the worst thing that ever happened to me…
Your eyes.
Writing Collab #14- Division By Zero
If Gods and Monsters could convene to solve the problems of the many, they would no doubt create more than they could fix.
Writing Prompt #11
The touch of her…
Santa woke with a panic, it was three days before Christmas and those bastard elves had shaved his beard off in his sleep.
Writing Prompt #10
I am a funk addict. Let me tell you about my dealer…
This is not a confession
Writing Prompt #9
The solution to Brexit is…
The Beatles could have been so much better if…
Writing Collab #8- The Last Stop
They’re all one in seven billion.
Writing Prompt #8
1. Don’t open that door, there is a…
2. I’ve discovered the meaning of life, it is…
3. You do not deserve an apology.
Writing Collab #6 – They Call It Halloween
Walking down the street bones-a-rattling in the cold and musky late October air, Batty and Bones huddled close to each other as children paraded shaking buckets of sweets and howling ghostly screams.
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Writing Collab #5 – The Headless Horseman
I, nightmares sad knight am no beast. I am not terror for you to scream yourself to sleep after seeing. So why then do people lose their heads in panic at the sight of me?
Writing Prompt #7
I watched the dawning of creation, and frankly it was…
I can remember everything in the most precise details. But I can’t remember what she looked like.
Writing Prompt #6
Did David definitely dance down Devon, dear?
If you don’t do this, I will…
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DAY 30- 30 Day Writing Challenge
‘By George, I have it’ cried Henry as he took a mouthful of the strange meaty concoction that had been stewing for the last fourteen hours on Kevin’s stove.
Writing Prompt #5
“I can fix the world with one bullet, here’s how…”
You put the lime in the coconut…
Writing Prompt #4
Fortune Favours The….
“I told you, he was already dead when I met him”
Writing Prompt #3
“It wasn’t me!” I said, although it was a lie.
Where was Wendy when we were water-skiing?