The Haunted Wordsmith

  • The Pickle Jar, Revisited

    The Pickle Jar, Revisited

    It’s Blogging Fill-In-The-Blanks #15 at The Haunted Wordsmith Blog If you are unfamiliar with Fill-in-the-Blanks, they are short stories with words missing that you, the reader, fill in based on the noted requirement (i.e. noun, name, verb, color, etc.). Step 1 is to read the list of blanks for the story and write down the

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  • The Jolly Boys

    The Jolly Boys

    Today’s writing prompt at The Haunted Wordsmith is the image below by George Caleb Bingham. The Jolly family was well-known infamous in the state of Missouri. A single mother trying to raise eight rambunctious boys, Molly Jolly was spread pretty thin. Her nerves were shot; she could do no more. She wondered what the boys’

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