Category Archives: Challenges and Writing Prompts

Twittering Tales #5

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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 #4 based on this photograph from last week. We have some new folks joining the fun!

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From Kiwinana at Ramblings of a Writer:

If those golf carts are used all together, how do you know which one you used, do you just help yourself to any cart when returning? (132 Characters)

From Irena at Books and Hot Tea – “Abandoned” :

Golf clubs were abandoned. When it came, money couldn’t save the rich. Wealth gave them no power anymore. They tasted the same as the poor. (139 Characters)

and from me:

The new administration’s energy savings’ plan involves replacing full-sized automobiles with golf carts. It is expected to save billions. (137 Characters)

Thanks to everyone who played last week! See this week’s prompt photo below:

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“Siri said to turn right.”

“Great! Since Siri is so smart, try asking her where we are!”

“Siri, where are we?”

Siri Answered: “Hell if I know!”

kat ~ 22 November 2016
(140 Characters)


After the Rain – Magnetic Poetry Saturday

beautiful quiet comes
after the rain as
clouds grow softly
into blue and light falls
like tendrils blanketing
me in deep peace

kat – 19 November 2016


Utopia

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As the ruling class had promised, internment camps were established in every district to house the undesirables who were identified and sorted during the great purge, to be kept safe with their own kind: the immigrants, the refugees, the gays, the Muslims, non-Christians, Agnostics and Atheists, single, divorced and widowed women over 21 who did not have the covering of a husband, native peoples, the homeless and the disabled.

Small delegations from each sub-community were given authority to keep the peace, to report dissidents, who were swiftly removed to an undisclosed location and to order basic necessities, such as food and medicine for their respective areas.

It was meant to be a temporary inconvenience until everyone could be registered and vetted sufficiently to re-enter the regime, but the process was long and ridden with changing rules and red tape, and the longer it took, the more comfortable the outcasts became, staying behind their walls with their own kind, where it was safe.

~kat ~ 17 November 2016

For Sonya’s Three Line Tale Challenge based on the photo above by photo by Jace Grandinetti via Unsplash.


Breathe New – Haiku Challenge

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new day dawns
on a whisp’ring breeze
breathing life
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new things will frighten
those who like familiar things
breathing helps let go

kat ~ 16 November 2016

A few haiku for Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, prompt words: Breathe & New.


Rows

in rows over rows
a flock of quacking quackers
were all aflutter

kat ~ 16 November 2016

A Haiku in response to Haiku Horizon’s weekly challenge, prompt word: “Row”.