About the challenge: Each Tuesday I will provide a prompt, and your mission, if you choose to play along, is to tell a story based on that prompt in 140 characters or less.
If you accept the challenge, be sure to let me know in the comments with a link to your tale. A final note: if you need help tracking the number of characters in your story, there is a nifty online tool that will count for you at charactercountonline.com.
I will do a roundup each Tuesday, along with providing us a new prompt.
Have Fun!
Twittering Tales #26 – The Roundup
From Reena at ReInventions:Do you fear that followers will catch up, or will you give them an opportunity? The acceleration speed shows the Leadership Quotient.
(133 characters)
From Lost In Translation 79:
Thunderous roar of the pavement below,
Throttle on full with no fear,
Grinding of teeth with baggage In tow,
The objects in mirror disappear…
(138 Characters)
From Kitty at Kitty’s Verses:
It’s always prudent not to be lost in the past, but it doesn’t do any harm to take a step back and view the broader perspective.
(129 Characters)
From Willow at Willowdot21:
The view with the wing mirror is a time annominally. The past is following us, the future approaches yet we are here now. Where are we really.
(140 Characters)
From Lorraine at In 25 Words More or Less:
Lane assist, self-breaking, computer, gps, blue tooth.
Car virtually drives itself.
Look, no hands on the wheel
and no proble . . . .
(132) (18.5)
From Michael at Morpethroad:
Reflective perspective
Makes for a fascinating discovery
Is it coming at you?
Will it collide with you?
A flash and it’s gone
You breathe again.
(140 characters)
From Gayl at Gayl S Wright:
No Turning Back
No turning back now
We said our goodbyes and left
Never to return
Oh, how they pleaded
The danger will be too great
Our minds were made up
(133 characters)
A Sad Departure
The lights of the town faded as we pulled farther away.
The fire had destroyed everything. With tears in our eyes we drove into the unknown.
(140 characters)
A New Adventure
Everyone cheered and wished us well. Leaving the city
behind us, we headed out for the adventure of a lifetime! What secrets would we find?
(139 characters)
From Kathryn at Another Foodie Blogger:
After driving 24-hours straight, Tim’s paranoia would not stop. The barren desert flew by his windshield, but when he looked in the mirror…
From Francine at Woman Walks Max:
He’s behind us, he’s catching up.
Dad said “You marry that boy over my dead body”.
Didn’t believe him. Go faster, gotta get to the church
before Dad.
(146 Characters)
From Peter at Peter’s Ponderings:
On reflection I knew the twins were safer now than they’d ever been. Their father too! I wound down the window and tossed the 3 empty cases.
(140 characters)
From John at BroadsidesDotMe:
I want to break free, On the long and winding road, looking back in anger at the fading lights.
(95 Characters)
From Kirst at Kirst Writes:
By sunset I’d reached the border. The traffic thinned as the road climbed towards the mountains. On the other side, a new life was waiting.
(139 characters)
From Lady Lee at Lady Lee Manila:
Seatbelt on, clutch, mirror, indicate, off we go. Turn right, got to emphasise that I’m looking at my side mirror, then indicate. All good!
(139 Characters)
From Sangbad at Thoughts of Words:
Past is the reflection…present now, the moving car…future is the headlighted gray road, traffic, indicators…the distant horizon…
(136 words)
From susmitamukherjeea at Uniquesus
Adieu
As I passed the town to settle elsewhere I looked back despondently in the rear view mirror. “If it weren’t for this darn job”, I sighed.
(138 characters)
From Patty @pjtemple (from Twitter)
Maniacal was that terrible thing in that one still moment. But now that it’s passed I release a cautious sigh.
and my tale:
“Do you see them?”
“No…I think we’ve finally lost them. Just a few more miles.”
“Then what?”
“We may never know. Look ahead. They’re coming.”
(140 Characters)
I found so many of this week’s tales on the “reflective” side. 😉 Hee hee! Another great round of diverse ideas and thoughts. Some of you definitely had me thinking and guessing and cruising! Thanks to everyone who came along for the ride last week. On to the next photo challenge. What’s happening here? Who is this woman? Who is the artist? Just a simple transaction…or something more? Send me a tweet and have fun! 🙂
Twittering Tale #27 – 25 April 2017
He never forgot her face. They met at the cafe. Only once. He spent the rest of his life drawing the woman he might have known.(130 Characters)
kat
April 24th, 2017 at 11:31 pm
How bittersweet — a heartache of a tale,
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April 25th, 2017 at 11:07 am
It is…he will never know what if…then again, if he ever happened to run into her again, I’m sure he would not let her get away so easily. 🙂
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April 25th, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Somehow I doubt he would let her slip by with only a memory to paint.
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April 25th, 2017 at 9:40 pm
I agree!
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April 25th, 2017 at 12:30 am
[…] twittering tale, and influenced by NatPoWriMo, a shadorma, and a tilus for Kat’s Twittering Tales #27. (image: […]
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April 25th, 2017 at 12:31 am
After midnight musings . . .
https://in25wordsmoreorless.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/tt-27-the-girl/
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April 25th, 2017 at 12:41 am
Reblogged this on ladyleemanila and commented:
twittering tales 🙂
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April 25th, 2017 at 11:04 am
Thanks Lady Lee! 🙂
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April 25th, 2017 at 1:52 am
[…] Twittering Tales […]
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April 25th, 2017 at 1:53 am
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April 25th, 2017 at 1:54 am
[…] Written for: https://katmyrman.com/2017/04/24/twittering-tales-27-25-april-2017/ […]
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April 25th, 2017 at 1:55 am
Hi Kat, my thoughts this week.
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April 25th, 2017 at 1:57 am
Love this prompt!!! Great stuff!
The Haunting | Lost In Transalation
https://lostintransalation.com/2017/04/25/the-haunting/
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April 25th, 2017 at 2:05 am
[…] Twittering Tales #27 – 25 April 2017, Weekly Writing Prompt #86, twenty-fifth day of […]
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April 25th, 2017 at 2:08 am
thanks for the prompt, Kat 🙂
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April 25th, 2017 at 6:32 am
I love your take on this, I really do. It reminds of Your Beautiful by James Blunt, a similar story .
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April 25th, 2017 at 10:54 am
Thank you Willow. I think we have these sorts of encounters several times in a lifetime. My memory will sometimes flash a face into view and I think, “I wonder…what if?”
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April 25th, 2017 at 12:09 pm
Yes we all know that feeling 💜
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April 25th, 2017 at 3:16 pm
❤
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April 25th, 2017 at 8:19 am
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April 25th, 2017 at 8:29 am
So many fabulous story’s and takes again last week here is my this week’s offering.
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April 25th, 2017 at 10:33 am
[…] Twittering Tale #27 – 25 April 2017 […]
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April 25th, 2017 at 10:34 am
There are so many great takes on last week’s! Here is mine for this week’s photo:
This was by far his hardest commission. Amongst tubes, beeps, and shallow breaths, his chalks revealed the lovely face under the acid burns.
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April 25th, 2017 at 10:42 am
Wow! this tale gave me chills (in a good way). What a lovely gift from the artist to the girl…<3
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April 25th, 2017 at 10:36 am
Hi Kat,
Please find below my entry for this week:
Have a great day!
Thanks,
Susmita
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April 25th, 2017 at 11:17 am
Superb submissions! 🌹🌹🌹😎
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April 25th, 2017 at 3:31 pm
I am always blown away! 😀
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April 25th, 2017 at 12:45 pm
[…] In response to Kat Myrman Twiitering Tales Challenge. For details please refer here. […]
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April 25th, 2017 at 12:47 pm
Hi Kat,
Please have a look at mine at https://kittysverses.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/image
Thank you.
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April 26th, 2017 at 2:21 am
[…] Twittering Tales #27 […]
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April 26th, 2017 at 2:24 am
Here’s mine…
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April 27th, 2017 at 3:23 am
[…] Can you write a tweet length tale? Try Kay Myrman’s Twittering Tales challenge: […]
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:51 am
Hii… this is my very first attempt…
https://wordpress.com/post/throughmyheartweb.wordpress.com/4467
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:07 pm
[…] Here is this week’s prompt and my contribution. Check out all the fabulous entries here. […]
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April 27th, 2017 at 6:15 pm
I’m really enjoying this challenge. Thank you Kat. Here’s mine for this week:https://pollymermaid.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/april-24-2017-twittering-tales-27-25-april-2017/
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April 28th, 2017 at 8:31 am
francineangelcakes April 27 2017 at 1.30
I look forward to each twittering tale challenge. Here’s mine for this week:
http://www.francineangelcakes.com
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April 28th, 2017 at 8:35 am
[…] Twittering Tales #27 – 25 April 2017 […]
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April 29th, 2017 at 6:04 pm
[…] Twittering Tales challenge is hosted by Kat Myrman. The goal is to write a twitter-length story, in 140 characters or less. You can see the challenge HERE. […]
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April 29th, 2017 at 6:04 pm
Here’s my tale! 🙂 https://booksandhottea.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/twittering-tales-the-mistake/
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May 2nd, 2017 at 1:18 am
[…] Twittering Tale #27 – The Round-Up […]
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