Category: Creative writing
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Read more: Fibbing Friday | 10/02/2026
You can join in by writing a post with your answers and tag it #FibbingFriday.If you use WordPress, pingbacks are enabled but aren’t always working so double up and leave a link to your post in the comments as well…
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Read more: Breaking Barefoot
Here’s our Thursday story challenge. Visit Esther Chilton’s blog for more info. Can you tell a story in 62 words using the following words in it somewhere: Today’s horoscope advised Tanya to get the martini vaccine before going to Bubba’s…
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Read more: 3TC #MM562 | A Change of Hearts
Welcome back to Three Things Challenge. Engage your imagination and creativity by using one, two or all three words that may or may not be related. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre, though please keep it family…
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Read more: Sky Blue!
I wrote this one on May 16, 2017. Here it is again for Fandango’s Flashback Friday. My spirit danced in the love of your laughing blue eyes as we skipped hand in hand down our sidewalk. Through the yellow rays…
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Read more: Hammer Meets Nail
So, a hammer walks into The Nutz & Boltz Tavern after a tough day on the job site. The bartender leans over the bar. “What’ll it be, Hambo?” “Gimme a Rusty Nail, Mack,” he replied. “And keep ’em comin’!” “Rough day,…
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Read more: The Ace of Wands | No Dice
Preston is a troubled youth and extremely large for his age. The former is due, in part, to his lack of social skills and his parents’ peculiar philosophy on socialization. For instance, rather than letting him go outside and play…
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Read more: 2nd Grade & Why I’m Not Catholic
The piece below recounts the actual events of a day at St. James Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. 1966, or so. I flunked a phonics test and Sister Eleanor is scowling like Satan: goose-stepping back and forth, spitting “God…
