Category Archives: Challenges and Writing Prompts

Twittering Tales #8 – 13 December 2016

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! 🙂

Here are the results for Twittering Tales #7 based on this photograph from last week:

Photo from Pixabay


-From Sonali at Howling with the Wolf:

Jan 2012

Dear Diary, 

I wonder what expression he has right now. 

The soft teardrop on the page answered his wife’s question on her last entry. 
(140 Characters)

-From Willow:
Reading the book brought him up short.

It was as he always thought,
The truth he sort .
The book fell his body taught.
Too late the truth.
( Character count 138)

-From Michael at Morpethroad:

He came to the difficult part. His abuse. His children knew nothing. Should he omit it? Pretend it never happened. Bury it forever? Dilemma.
(140 characters)

-From kiwinana (Elsie) at Ramblings of a Writer:

Have I cut enough firewood today?
I have run out of energy but I must keep the boss happy
Would prefer to read this novel today instead.
(135 Characters)

-From Kathryn at another foodie blogger:

“I have one more cord of wood to split before the cold freeze hits. Do I meet my honey for this dinner in my planner, or…?”
(122 Characters)

From ladyleemanila:

To be or not to be?
Do I take it or not?
What will happen if I don’t?
Will I be given a second chance?
Or will I let my life be the same?
Dilemma
(140 Characters)

From Pat at Black Cat Alley:

The shock of the find – her “big little black book” exists – and it was clear, she used it still – a hot date tonight – not with him.
(135 Characters)

-From Lorraine’s Frilly Freudian Slip:

He despaired of conveying the strange nature of his life story in a twitter-like format. So much to say and he was such a lousy self-editor.
(140 characters)

-From Itena at books ans hot tea:

He sat under his childhood tree, hoping he’d find inspiration for his novel. He was ready. Painful memories of the past welcomed him home.
(138 characters)

-and my take:

He found the journal in her dresser. As he read the words she wrote about “him” his heart broke. He wondered, “Should I tell them I know?”
(139 Characters)

Wow! What an awesome collection of tales. Thanks to everyone who played last week! If I missed your entry, please let me know so I can add it to the roundup.

See this week’s prompt photo below:

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Twittering Tales #8 – 13 December 2016

Photo from Pixabay

Nothing warmed her heart more than a crackling fire, hot cocoa and a few banned books to burn; freedom of speech and expression be damned. 

(139 Characters )

kat – 13 December 2016


Antique Camera


vintage celluloid
memories in shades of gray
iris shuttered dark

kat – 7 December 2016

A three line tale in the form of a Haiku for Sonya’s Three Line Tale Challenge based on the photo above by Grant McCurdy.


Pets at Play – A Haiku Challenge

For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, prompt words: Pet & Play, with the request to show photos of our playful pets. I give you the aftermath…Haha!

happypupDon’t let these innocent faces fool you!
winmax

Playful pets prefer
unread shreds of newspaper
proof they’re not well (b)read!

…and one more haiku not of the animal pet variety:

A pet peeve of mine…
when someone plays on my trust
they are the true fools.

kat ~ 6 December 2016

 


Twittering Tales #7 – 6 December 2016

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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! 🙂

Here are the results for Twittering Tales #6 based on this photograph from last week. We have some new folks joining the fun!

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“Rosé” by cyclonebill from Copenhagen, Denmark at Wikimedia Commons.

*From Kiwinana (Elsie Hagley) from Ramblings of a Writer:

Sitting by the fire watching the glow on my nearly empty glass I clicked into wonderland sure I saw a fairy dancing in the red sea of glory.
(140 Characters)

*From Michael at summerstommy.com:

It can’t be a chardonnay, its red.

No it’s a new grape variety, red wine chardonnay.

Taste it and see.

Well its different.

Hmm you got any more?
(140 characters)

*From Kathryn, anotherfoodieblogger:

I was offered a taste of new wine at the bar from a stranger. Little did I know it was a roofie, dammit! Where am I and where are my shoes?
(139 Characters)

*From Irena at Books and Hot Tea:

She poured him wine. Her glass was already full, with a liquid too dark and thick. He failed to notice that, or the fangs beneath her lips.
(139 characters)

*From Pat at Black Cat Alley:

A new wine, hailed as exceptional – raspberry sweet, peppery bite, bargain priced. Few tasted its dirtiness, the grapes stomped by goats. ©Pat Palazy/ wordwitch88@Black Cat Alley 2016∞
(130 Characters)

*My take:

After an hour Sue realized she’d been stood up. She ordered more wine, noticing an attractive stranger at the bar. “You’ll do,” she thought.
(140 Characters)

*And finally from Willowdot21 (I think she may have thought the challenge was 140 words, but I loved her story so much I can’t not include it in the roundup!)

The  light played upon  the  glass  reflecting  the  windows of  the bar.The  barman  watched  the  woman in  the  red  dress silently  fondling  her glass. Something about  her   grabbed  his  interest.

As  the  evening  progressed  he  found  he  was  becoming  obsessed with  her, her figure, her  hair, her  lips  and  her  eyes. She  was sex  personified  and  she  was making him hungry, he could  feel  her  body  calling  him,he  was  growing hard  and  so distracted.   It was  becoming  impossible  to  concentrate, all he could  see  was her breasts  rising  and  falling  as  she  breathed.

Eventually he  could  take  no more  he vaulted  the bar  and  made  straight  for her. As he  approached  she  turned  and  smiled  at  him her  eyes  like ice cooled pools .”Hi”he  said  “my  name is  Tom”, “Hello  sexy  mine name is  James” was  the husky  reply.

Thanks to everyone who played last week! If I somehow missed your entry, please let me know so I can add it to the roundup.

See this week’s prompt photo below:

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Twittering Tales #7 – 6 December 2016

He found the journal in her dresser. As he read the words she wrote about “him” his heart broke. He wondered, “Should I tell them I know?”

kat – 6 December 2016
(139 Characters)


love is all

For this week’s Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge by Elusive Trope’s of Specks and Fragments.

love is all.png

keep your heart open to
the promise of love
for it is the truest
emotion you can know…
nothing compares to love

kat ~ 3 December 2016
(Magnetic Poetry the Love Kit)