I thought I’d give Bulbul’s Twenty Word Tuesday a go. Today’s prompt is Kaleidoscope. We spent our life confined together crashing like flashes of colour and light-chaotic, beautiful, but always dancing and alive. Image by Dmitri Posudin from Pixabay
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The Mime Artist
Here’s an autobiographical story about a job I once had. I was not the mime artist in the traditional sense- but I did spend 6 months miming the keyboard for a band. I had been given the keys. I couldn’t play the keys, but I had been given the keys. “How about the bass?” IContinueContinue reading “The Mime Artist”
Split Between Screens and Screams
“Split Between Screens and Screams” is part 5 in a series. It uses the writing prompt “he was a husk of the person he used to be.” 1: Sequins, Stardust, and Rust 2: From a Rainbow to a Tragedy 3: Dead Stars Become Black Holes 4: Another Twinkling God The ‘like’ button doesn’t work outside of WordPressContinueContinue reading “Split Between Screens and Screams”
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Another Twinkling God
Another Twinkling God is part four in a flash fiction series. It follows on from: Part 1: Sequins, Stardust, and Rust Part 2: From a Rainbow to a Tragedy Part 3: Dead Stars Become Black Holes If you’d like to give me a writing prompt for a future part, I’d love to try and work in anythingContinueContinue reading “Another Twinkling God”
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Physical Education
Physical Education I don’t often write autobiographical pieces, but thought I’d purge in literary form. I have a lot of memories of physical education, this one sticks with me the most. The out of tune cellos had faded into the evaporating rain. We were on the pitted concrete pitch penned in like caged beasts. IContinueContinue reading “Physical Education”
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Dead Stars Become Black Holes
Dead Stars Become Black Holes Part 3 of this flash fiction series “Dead Stars Become Black Holes” uses the prompt “this will ruin everything,” as given to me by Aspasía S. Bissas. Part 1: Sequins, Stardust, and Rust Part 2: From a Rainbow to a Tragedy If you’d like to provide a prompt for aContinueContinue reading “Dead Stars Become Black Holes”
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From a Rainbow to a Tragedy
From a Rainbow to a Tragedy carries on from yesterday’s Sequin’s, Stardust, and Rust (Since Nat wanted more). If anyone wants more, I can continue…let me know! From a Rainbow to a Tragedy In life, he’d been a rainbow, but in death, his life was spun into tragedy. Blackened. The rush to review his lyricsContinueContinue reading “From a Rainbow to a Tragedy”
He Was The Worst Dancer I Had Ever Seen
He was the worst dancer I had ever seen, all lies and left feet and the charmed ignorance of a baked bean. But without doubt there was reason, full of well-seasoned perfected truths honed in the fortress of his mind.
3 Awesome Writing prompts #22
Today’s 3 awesome writing prompts! The rules as always are that you need to link this post when you share your piece. Other than that, write whatever you want! Don’t dwell on the blank page for too long. In fact, don’t dwell on it at all. Start throwing words at the page and see whatContinueContinue reading “3 Awesome Writing prompts #22”
The Circus
e used to bet on pantomime horses and somehow always win. As the chief clown he always knew which way the wind blew because quite frankly, he was the one blowing the raspberries. Always the contrary cha
Writing Prompt #18
Today’s writing prompts, use them wisely. Create poems, stories, essays, songs, or anything you like. Don’t forget to link back to this post. 1. Buy me another beer and I will tell you why I did it. 2. Small things have the biggest effects. Or, use the picture
Flashback Friday #4- The Mime Artist
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”
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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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”
DAY 28 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
Calmly, Claire closed the cover. Chapter-after-chapter of choice violence haunted her without a scar.
DAY 27- 30 Day Writing Challenge
The warning bell sounds. The last day for humankind on earth is finally here. I suddenly shocked myself to life as the earth around me died.
ATTENTION FELLOW WRITERS!! Take Part In My Great Writing Collaboration Challenge!!
Hello fellow writers!! I need your help for an on going project that I’d like to run from my blog…
I’d like to start a regular Collaboration Challenge and I’d like you to be involved.
Writing Prompt #1
1.The warning bell sounds. The last day for humankind on earth is finally here.
2.You don’t fool me. I made you.
DAY 20 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
But you are like a bolt out of the blue. The sparkle on the edge of a star. Everything has meaning and everything is full. Not just half full. No short measured optimism. The glass is full.
DAY 8 – 30 Day Writing Challenge
Three thirty, on the dot. He sits. No paper. No dog. No pipe. He just sits.