“Close your eyes,” Patsy and Elmo said as they came into the room with Sarah’s graduation cake. Sarah laughed, thinking about all the surprise birthday parties that had taken place in this living room over the last twenty-one years. She covered her eyes with her hands. “Open them.” Sarah screamed looking at the custom-made cake [...]
Living in a world of ambiguity is very enticing. One could never be right or wrong, because there will always be an out. While it may be enticing, one should never live there. Not suggesting we need a Draconian life, either. Draconian and ambiguity seem to be polar opposites, which is perhaps why it is [...]
Summer break from school was hard enough on Mary, but now the summer gods were testing her patience. It was a hundred degrees in the shade and the city just suffered another black out. The brown outs were bad enough, but this was the third black out in two weeks. Add three bored teenagers to [...]
Today's Project Gutenberg flashback is not a book...it's a magazine from 1913. The Armour's Monthly Cookbook A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest October, 1913 This one has so many good things in it, I may find other uses for it...lol. Today's selection, though, is called The Daily Menu and lists the winning menu from each [...]
Welcome to the Three Things Challenge! Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things. This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired. To participate, simply link to this page (creating a pingback) or [...]
Welcome to Worth A Thousand Words A new daily photo prompt This challenge is different than many other challenges in that it aims to encourage longer stories. Use the photo prompt above to find your inner muse and set it free. No limits on word count, genre, rating, etc. Let your imagination run wild. To [...]
Maybe everyone knows this already, but it just came to me this week that, while nice, pingbacks are often misunderstood creatures. The premise of the pingback is simple...it creates a link to your page on someone else's page automatically (well, after the blog owner approves it if they have that feature turned on). My settings [...]
“The old Number 6 used to run down this line,” Charlie told Chris as he was showing him around the woods while walking down the old rail line that had been half swallowed by time. “Why’d it stop?” Charlie stopped, took a deep breath and looked at the scrawny new kid, sizing him up. They [...]
Welcome to Worth A Thousand Words A new daily photo prompt This challenge is different than many other challenges in that it aims to encourage longer stories. Use the photo prompt above to find your inner muse and set it free. No limits on word count, genre, rating, etc. Let your imagination run wild. To [...]
"And that is the last time," Jacob began telling his wife over the phone. "I can't believe they kept us sitting there for eight hours. EIGHT HOURS! What did I get for them wasting eight hours of my life? Nothing, Ellen, nothing! This is ridiculous. I am going straight down to the customer service [...]
Sam and Kat were always the family jokesters. When the twins were five and didn't want to go to school, they hid every calendar in the house thinking that's what made the days change. Hey, they were five, cut them some slack. Then when they were eight, they rigged an string across the upstairs hall [...]
*steps on soap box I have come to the conclusion lately that I truly live in a different world than many others. I just don't get it. And you know what, it's okay that I don't, because I don't think they get it either. The world itself hasn't changed...it's filled with thinkers, doers, dreamers, and [...]
Eric hated being the royal presenter. It was his duty though. All twelve year old boys in his family serve as the royal presenter to Queen Gladys for three months. His three months seemed to be filled with daily requirements while his cousin barely had any at all. "You have the presence of mind to [...]
Princesses Rhyme and Reason were, as sisters often do, arguing over this n' that, but mostly over Tock. He was driving them nuts with the same story day after day. They wanted excitement again. Ten pink princess phones ought to do it. Now to wait for someone to answer their call. This 280-character tale was [...]
Today's Project Gutenberg flashback comes from: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katherine Berry Judson Published 1913 This book is a collection of myths and legends from various Native American tribes of the Great Plains. Be sure to check out the book for more stories, there are a lot of great ones. WHY [...]
Welcome to the Three Things Challenge! Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things. This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired. To participate, simply link to this page (creating a pingback) or [...]
Hello all. Tonight's predictive text tale is a little different and I hope it works. It will still be 100 words but well, you'll see. Summers off, 🍉 and 🌽 growing up so fast. I will meet you at the same time as the 🚂. We will find a way to get the ball rolling. [...]
Brae disliked her family. Well, it wasn't exactly her family she hated, it was her family curse that she hated. Everyone else in the family loved it though, which made family gatherings quite difficult. How the curse, or gift, affected them was different for everyone. Her brother was the luckiest. At least to Brae. Mack [...]
Junior and his sister, Daisy, were planning a holiday to celebrate their parent’s twentieth wedding anniversary. The family traveled a lot which made coming up with a great destination quite difficult. “We could rent a beach bungalow,” Daisy said, looking at Yelp reviews in Hawaii. “We went to the beach last year. How about somewhere [...]
Everyone drop what you’re doing…unless you’re holding a child, cooking, eating, working, writing, or….well, ok, just listen please. Let’s help Bearded Igor reach his goals by the end of July! Get the word out…spread his message…I know we can do it! The more people read, the more people want to write!
Well this year hasn’t exactly gone to plan so far. Negatively I’ve been dumped and had various health issues including Aussie flu, damn that flu. Positively I have this blog. But what for the rest of the year? Well sit back and let’s delve into my targets.
Blog goals.
My biggest targets for this is for it to just keep going and post daily. Hopefully it will grow but won’t take anything for granted. Currently passed 4,000 views so I would love to hit 10,000 by the end of the year. I mean honestly that would be mind blowing for me. I would love to keep follower growth going steadily. All in all if it keeps growing I will be happy.
As for content, I want to write more creative pieces. Write more stories for you and even try a bit of poetry. I can only try.
As for #neverletlightfade…
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"Hi Mrs. Franklin," Principal Ford said as the elderly teacher entered his office. He quickly moved his goldfish bowl off the bookcase before she could knock it off by hitting the case with her walker. "Thanks for coming down." "Anything for you young man." Principal Ford felt a little uncomfortable being called a young man [...]
Today's Project Gutenberg flashback takes us all the way back to 1871 Philadelphia. Godey's Lady's Book by Various Authors Published 1871 This magazine was one of the most popular magazines before the Civil War. Be sure to check out the other stories in this issue. FOUR SONNETS TO THE FOUR SEASONS. BY MARY SPENSER [...]
Welcome to the Three Things Challenge! Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things. This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired. To participate, simply link to this page (creating a pingback) or [...]
Going left to right and back again to 100. People are not competing with you and see if you have any yet but the day I was told that way you don't have to do that in the morning but I can be there is more to it than capella I have a friend that [...]
It had been a long, rainy winter so Julie had been penned up in the house most of the time. She hated the rain, but she hated being cooped up even more. Brad could sense that the winter was really starting to get to her, so he hatched a plan to cheer her up. “Let’s [...]
Great Aunt Esta was quite the mercurial, yet woebegone woman. She lived alone and was quite content living with her plants and cats. That was until the Ant family moved in next door. Oh, they seemed nice enough when they first introduced themselves, but from what we have been able to piece together through the [...]
Last week I posted separate lists of main characters dying to have their story told and story ideas that were demanding to be written. This week I am combining those into one list that I will post every Sunday morning. As always, if you see something you like, take it and run with it 🙂 [...]
Today's Project Gutenberg flashback comes from: Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing Published Unknown **Note, featured image does not come from this book This book is, as the name suggests, a collection of fairy tales. I had never read any of these! Here is one that I enjoyed...be sure to check out the others... [...]
Welcome to the Three Things Challenge! Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things. This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired. To participate, simply link to this page (creating a pingback) or [...]
Hello Everyone! I don't know about you, but the last challenge was fun, so here is another week-long challenge. It will run from 14 July to 20 July and I will compile the list of participants and post it on 21 July. The last challenge took us into people's homes and looking at the strange [...]
Hello All! On July 9th, I posted a list of ideas for collections...THANK YOU everyone who found inspiration in the list! Here is a recap and link to participating stories (if you wrote one and I missed it, please let me know) Left bowling shoes (only the left shoe) Painted fingernail clippings Canine teeth Fly [...]
Billy and Carl fought over the remote every Saturday morning to control which cartoons they watched first. “I want Superman,” Billy demanded. “You got to pick last week,” Carl argued. “Well, I want to watch Superman, and I’m older!” “Yeah…I want to watch Batman, and I don’t care if you are two minutes older.” Their [...]
For today's Saturday Soundtrack, I'm going for a silly theme to follow up the puns from rediscovering old stories. I love parodies in all shapes, sizes, and forms. Since this is a "soundtrack" post, I cannot discuss parodies without focusing on the great Weird Al Yankovic. I have been a fan of Weird Al for [...]
Hey Everyone! Ellie Scott reviewed my book! You can read her review here. I am very glad that she liked it. She also wrote that I have a dry sense of humor. Okay, this is where things get a little funny (for me)...I often say that I have no sense of humor because no one [...]
Today's Project Gutenberg flashback is -- The New Pun Book by Thomas A. Brown Published 1906 This book is, as the name suggests, a collection of puns...here are some of my favorites. Be sure to check out the rest. **warning: some of the humor is not PC today "You know Fatty Schultz the butcher. What [...]
Welcome to a special Superhero Saturday Three Things Challenge! Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things. This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired. To participate, simply link to this page (creating [...]
Tonight's first predictive text tale come from my son's phone...and it is hilarious. Selecting Left to Right: I love you and i have no clue what I was just about anything and you know what you doing today I am so proud to be in a while since I've been trying for ages but I'm [...]
"The 21st century was a period of great upheaval and violence," Xip told his class. "The United States Space Force was more powerful than they even anticipated." "How?" one student asked. "Good question, Kom. The Space Force connected to every leading nation in the world. They had the world in their hands." "Did they know [...]
Sophie's doctor told her the man didn't exist. He was just a part of her brain that never fully recovered from the car accident. Give it time, he said. She did. Her psychiatrist told her the man didn't exist. He was just part of her guilt about the car accident. Give it time, she said. [...]
Angelica was a very pretty young lady with long blond hair that was usually found in a braid running down her back. She was thin, and took great pride in her clothing. Even at her young age of thirteen, she had learned that her looks were not found in everyone and that could work to [...]
If you have followed me for a while, you know I like all of you (loving you would just be a little weird...yeah, I truly an introvert) A special shout out to two great bloggers who have kept the last three months exceptionally fun and interesting (not saying everyone else doesn't). Tales from the Mind [...]
Okay, so I am super excited by this one (I love Friday the 13th and Halloween---I'm warning all my readers all ready, I LOVE HALLOWEEN!). I was tagged by A Guy Called Bloke and K9 Doodlepip! to participate in his Friday Funday Challenge. Thanks! Check out his site! It is a little like musical chairs. He writes: Each [...]
It was just an old wooden fence out back on my Grandpa’s property. Nothing to look at, nothing special. Every summer we took a bucket of whitewash out there and painted the fence. Time passed and when I was thirteen I refused to go visit. Hadn’t spoken to him in fifteen years. Not until the [...]
Before today, I never bought into all those superstitions. It was all mumbo jumbo. There was no such thing as zombies, vampires, witches, or werewolves. Those were creations of over-active imaginations by writers who had nothing better to do with their time than make up things to go bump in the night. Today started out [...]
If you are on Twitter, then you know of this thing called Follow Friday...frankly I find it annoying over there for a ton of reasons, but...here? Now, here may be a great place for Follow Friday, since we cannot really see who we all follow--i.e. read. Here, Follow Friday, could help spread new and old [...]
Today's Project Gutenberg flashback is -- Our Boys by Various Authors Published 1904 This book is a collection of short stories. Here are two of my favorites...be sure to check out the others. HE COULDN'T SAY NO. It was sad and it was strange! He just was full of knowledge, His studies swept the whole [...]
"Well, you don't have to be so petulant about it!" "I'm not being rude!" "You are." "How so?" "You just said told the artist himself, that you thought his art was shit!" "Well it is!" Janice's jaw dropped and she gawked at Jade. "It's art! It's a masterpiece!" "You don't really get it do you?" [...]
Welcome to a special Friday the 13th Three Things Challenge! Everyday I post three seemingly unrelated things and the challenge is to find a creative way to use those things. This can be anything you want it to be…the point is to have fun, share, and be inspired. To participate, simply link to this page [...]
Last one for tonight. I love how I get different stories each time. It's almost like a fortune telling machine. Moving right to left again. Good luck with your view on the bus to the conclusion and I don't have a friend in town for reading and commenting the same ad every day for anyone [...]
Ok, it had me in stitches last night, so I grabbed my phone and let's see what we get tonight. I normally go from left to right picking the next word until I reach 100. Tonight let's go right to left. We are going out to dinner tonight with my family and the other one [...]
