Fandango’s Story Starter

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This week’s Story Starter teaser is: He woke to the sound of whispers, not knowing if they were coming from elsewhere inside the house, or from within his own mind. He could probably decipher them. Words like drunk, again, problem, how, and tired sifted into his mind. He couldn’t blame them for talking about him. His life took a wrong turn a year ago and he could not seem to get his act together. He was not the first or be the last to drive under the influence and cause a terrible accident. Maybe today he could turn it around. Maybe.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #136

Moonwashed Musings Weekly Prompt

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Your Weekly Prompt – Aflutter

Let the prompt word and/or image inspire you! Prompt contributions can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. 

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Don’t look at me, I’m not ready
I only just gave up my teddy
My hair’s a mess, my wings not furled
Mom says “sit here and keep them curled
Get used to being out of the nest
Don’t look down yet, just rest
Time to fly coming soon,” she mutters.
That just makes my heart aflutter!

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Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Aflutter

dVerse Poets Poetics

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After a multi-year renovation project, the Folger will re-open this summer and visitors will find a brand new poem by Rita Dove inscribed on a berm, a “continuous border of marble that wraps around the West garden walkway. Our Poetics challenge is to write a poem, as Dove was commissioned to do, for a walled entrance that addresses and welcomes visitors into a space of your choosing.

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Entrance to a high school classroom:

Come in, all you fresh inquisitive minds, and free your imagination to accomplish your dreams.

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Poetics: It’s Written in Stone

dVerse Poets Prosery

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Here’s how to take part in Prosery:
–   Write a piece of flash fiction of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line in the order in which it has been given. You may add or change punctuation, but you may not add words in between the given ones.
–   Post your Prosery on your blog and link back to this post. I would like you to write a story that includes the following line(s) from the poem by British writer Helen Dunmore:

‘…city lilacs
release their sweet, wild perfume
then bow down, heavy with rain.’

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Halls of impropriety observe the sorrowful want of woman and man forever destined to remain in their station. Outside the corridors, city lilacs release their sweet, wild perfume then bow down, heavy with rain. There are no dampened flowering bushes in these halls, only despair. A scent of hope sometimes wafts by them with an odor of old regrets, desperate dreams and the everyday nightmare of waking up in a stuporous state. Not all dreams can be realized, especially in these city halls.

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Prosery: City Lilacs

SYW 2-12-24

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Here are this week’s questions:

1.  When was the last time you bought a new item of clothing? A week ago.

2.  When shopping for clothes, do you like to colour co-ordinate several purchases or buy one thing at a time? I have a pretty consistent color palette.

3.  Do you prefer sweat shirts, cardigans or jumpers? The item I bought last week was a new color of four sweaters, v neck long sleeves, I have worn all winter.

4.  Do you wear sandals in the Summer? I never wear sandals and wish most people would not.

Gratitude: Grateful this week my oldest son’s surgery is a success and got a long letter from my son in France.

Share Your World 12th February

Forgotten?

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I have a pet peeve about dismissing presidents’ birthdays to obtain a three day weekend- to me it’s like Rodney Dangerfield: “I get no respect”. Maybe I’m, we’ll there’s no maybe about it, when it comes to this, I AM old school—give one of the greatest presidents ever some respect!

DOB: February 12, 1809

Lincoln’s Birthday is a legal, public holiday in some U.S. states, observed on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln‘s birth on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville (Hodgensville, Hodgen’s Mill), Kentucky.[1] Connecticut,[2] Illinois,[3]Indiana,[4] Michigan,[5] Ohio,[6] California,[7]Missouri,[8] and New York[9] observe the holiday.

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