Possess – (Weekend Writing Prompt #196)
Name the attributes, Were you a Superhero … You’d like to possess? (11-Word Senryu) Prompt inspired by Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #196
Gargantuan – (Weekend Writing Prompt #195)
Since the start of lockdown we’ve been amassing too much rubbish. There are three men who live in this house with me, at the moment, and none is very neat, […]
Tenacious – (Weekly Writing Prompt #190)
Be tenacious, doubt the sceptics, That say that your aim is worth nix – They don’t know how vital your role … In the context of your end goal. […]
Marginal – (Weekly Writing Prompt #190)
The difference between marvellous and brilliant was marginal but brilliant alliterated with the name of the product and that worked for her. It was all about putting bright ideas into […]
Troglodyte – (Weekly Writing Prompt #189)
I love living here on the outskirts of Weymouth. I think, it is creeping into the 21st century but not without some creaking and groaning. I’m not saying that we are […]
Delete – (6WSP #69)
If only delete was an option … (Six-Word Story) Post inspired by Swheta’s Six Word Story Prompt #69 – please do click through for the rules if you too would […]
Languid – (Weekly Writing Prompt #188)
Her languid persona was something that really irritated her. It wasn’t so much that she thought her lazy; more that, her sister seemed to keep her figure without having to […]
Niggle – (Weekend Writing Prompt #187)
It had started to niggle, that rather irritating cough that wouldn’t go away – when working in the garden or worse when she left the house. The brabbling drippy nose […]
Quixotic – (Weekend Writing Prompt #186)
The ballet was just beautiful to watch, so very sensual. She had never experienced a ballet before. This one was quixotic; it made her eyes leak. (26-Word Micro-Story) Prompt inspired […]
Dire – (Weekend Writing Prompt #185)
The muted muffle coming from the old record player was just dire. We cleared off the dust inches, changed the stylus, rewired the speakers, to no avail; Pink Floyd still […]
Paradox – (Weekend Writing Prompt #184)
“He said, he thought you were cocky.” “Mmm” I replied with a straight face … “I’d prefer to think it is pure hubris.” My boss looked at me in disbelief, […]
Wrangle – (Weekend Writing Prompt #183)
Let us not wrangle, Nor wage to embrangle, Try hard not to wangle … Tis not good to strangle, Light from each angle, That can help us untangle, The mess […]
Occult Vault – (Weekly Decima Prompt)
Kismet, fluke, chance, luck or karma, Maybe it’s destiny or fate? On the occult or mystic state, To excuse all of life’s drama, That knocks off kilter, our dharma. Tis […]
Finagle – (Six Sentence Story #130)
It wasn’t that Dad’s handwritten will had no date; it did … Friday February 2011. Hells bells and various other words to that effect. It had been witnessed by Dad’s next door neighbours, […]
Lucid – (Weekend Writing Prompt #179)
It was another lucid dream, one where she hadn’t really grasped how or why it had started but she knew that she was dreaming and quite keen to change the […]
Asinine – (Weekend Writing Prompt #178)
Have you ever done anything so absolutely asinine that you blush up every time you think of it? Like falling backwards down the stairs and knocking yourself out after one […]
Ode to Heather – (Weekend Writing Prompt #117)
I have this bestie called Heather, Who can most certainly blether, There’s nowt she can’t regale, When telling a tall tale; Love it when we, get together. (27-Word Limerick) Post […]
Zany or What? (Weekend Writing Prompt #176)
Hardly what you would describe as subtle, this new boyfriend of mine. He makes me laugh out loud though. Do you know what this crazy clown proffered the other day? […]
Putting to Rights (Weekend Writing Prompt #174)
Another busy week for the writer, with three online board meetings. Her blogs had taken a backseat. Plus, typing had been tiresome after the hand operation. Recovering, slowly, she now, […]
Artificial Intelligence – (Weekend Writing Prompt #173)
The frown was barely perceptible; just a glimmer that flashed across the forehead. You’d have seen it, if you’d been watching carefully … “Artificial intelligence … how rude! Do these […]
Jostle – (Weekend Writing Prompt #170)
Pandemic aside, it’s that time of year, when the great unwashed jostle for prime position on the beautiful beaches here on the south-coast. While the hoi polloi quaff champers on […]
Unwelcome – (Weekend Writing Prompt #163)
It wasn’t long before Bournemouths’ beaches nearest the two piers had filled with bodies of all shapes and sizes. It was bound to happen, wasn’t it? It’d been forecasted the […]
Obdurate? – (Weekly Writing Prompt #161)
Frankie, the grammarian at tonight’s Toastmasters meeting, smiled resolutely. He was adamant that he would get just the right choice, for the ‘Word of the Evening’ challenge. He had taken […]
a Muster of Minis
It just so happened that I left Hythe a little bit earlier than planned this Sunday, the sun was peeping out from behind a puff of wispy clouds. I was […]
A Mob of Kangaroos
I love some of the descriptive nouns we, humans, allocate to a collective or should that be a cluster? Last week, was the final of three, in a land down […]
