Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Luck August 14, 2021 · by John W. Howell · in Prompt · Leave a comment I was taking a break during my bike ride and having a sip of water. Then, looking out over the scenic countryside, I spotted a cloud of dust heading in my direction. […]
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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #194 Welcome back! Some of you may already be aware of what I’m going to mention. It may be a literary adventure for some. I came across ‘literary devices’ while scanning the net. The link is given at the end of this piece. PROMPT 194 I chose one called POLYSYNDETON for […]
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Small Stories (1) His eyebrows raised as he looked out of the side window. So, next door’s eldest son had a new car? Not only the same as his, but the updated model. […] Read more …
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Wednesday Story Day – AKA – Hump Day It is Wednesday Story Day again, and last week we witnessed a small breakthrough between Larry and Cortez. It looked like Cortez is worried about keeping his family safe, and Larry made some sense in suggesting that the government could protect his family better than Cortez could. Cortez […]
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July 22: Flash Fiction Challenge Troubled times have come to my hometown. The prompt photo shows an undated modern main street of Markleeville, California where I lived from 1974 to 1985. In 1988, I returned to marry my Ranger in cowboy boots in a meadow where I rode my horse and pushed cattle during the summers […]
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I Messed Up July 14, 2021 / Books & Bonsai Lifesfinewhine You know how I wrote that whole post about sticking to a schedule and that good stuff? Yeah. It’s been like week one and I already messed up lol. I was supposed to make sure I post blogging advice today but I randomly got […]
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Rough Steps | Flash fiction #writephoto Rough Steps is my take on this week’s writephoto–of a stairway, which as you can see is pretty rough-hewn. My thanks go to KL Caley of New2Writing.com for continuing to keep us up to the mark with not only a prompt each week, but by reblogging and cataloguing our […]
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Click The smell of fish cooking over an open flame was tantalizing . Food has a language of its own and no-one needs words to eat. A feast was unraveling before our eyes, the street vendors expertly showing off their skills using baking stones and light spray of various oils in their preparation. […] Read […]
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This week Sadje’s question deals with our self esteem: Do you appreciate yourself, your good qualities, your successes and your positive abilities? These are a bunch of questions rolled into one. But seriously, it amounts to the same thingIf you put someone down often enough, they begin to believe they are not worthy of knowing […]
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