short fiction
-
Welcome to the daily Three Things Challenge.Use your imagination and creativity 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 friendly. Tag your responses with 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC, and you can add Di’s logo if
-
It’s First Line Friday over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie blog. This week our first line is The rose bushes lay a siege with velveteen petals and curved thorns. The rose bushes lay a siege with velveteen petals and curved thorns. These multi-faceted flowers were not your average narcissistic, depthless blooms. No, there was much more
-
It’s time once again for Cyranny’s #1MinuteFiction Challenge. Today’s prompt is the image below. The waiter came out with two Fuzzy Navels perched on his tray. His two customers’ Adirondack chairs were empty. He glanced around for the elderly couple to no avail. Their beach gear was gone too. Where’d they go? he mused. This
-
Here are the words for the Sunday Wordle #368 That morning, the sky was a shade of blue that hardly ever happens— kind of a light turquoise, maybe a little darker. A warm wind blew from the west, causing the leaves on the willow trees to shimmer in the morning sunlight. The Farquhar family farm
-
It’s the Saturday Mix over at MindLovesMisery Menagerie. This week’s challenge is Double Take in which we explore the usage of homophones. heal – to cure of disease heel – hind part of foot he’ll – contraction of “he will” and lain – past tense of lay lane – narrow road It was early Monday morning in the commune
Ergo, the Ogre 