Colleen’s back with her synonym poetry challenge!
The words to (not) use are:
Bells & Past
Pixabay Image
Switch the alarm off
Sweet dreams have ended too soon
Reality bitesRitu 2017
COLLEEN’S WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY POETRY CHALLENGE #Senryu #62: BELLS & PAST
12 Dec 2017 21 Comments
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Winners of The Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Contest #6
12 Dec 2017 2 Comments
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Another set of well deserving winners!
via Winner of Flash Fiction Contest #6 « Carrot Ranch Literary Community
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #179 Flare&Steam
11 Dec 2017 36 Comments
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Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:
Flare & Steam
Image from Pixabay
Slowly steam rises
Nature’s flares are flying high
Eruption beginsRitu 2017
#SoCS Dec. 9/17 – Liqu
09 Dec 2017 54 Comments
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Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “liqu.” Find a word that starts with “liqu” or has “liqu” in it, and base your post on that word. Have fun!
Liquor
I’m not a drinker, really, but can I just say that if I was one, then I would possibly have consumed a whole lot of liquor this week!
School has been totally manic this week, with awful observations, crazy (and I mean really crazy!) kids, charity fundraisers, and the fun (read long hours) of Governors meetings (4 hours long the other evening!)
And to add to that, we are practising school performances for Christmas!
I was all set for a weekend away at my parents, to help ease the stresses of the week, as to be honest, a loving family, rather than a liquid diet, helps me… but then Storm Caroline decided to get in on the act too, and the city my parents are in is currently being snowed upon!
After the accident I had in February (where I shut down the M6, both ways!) due to bad winds from another storm, and a tyre blow out, I thought it would be too risky to attempt the journey, and risk another incident.
So that means I don’t get to see Pops and Mum…
Feeling a little down…
Maybe I need some liquid therapy… Though mine would be in the form of tea, chai latte or hot chocolate!
Happy Saturday Peeps!
December 7 – Flash Fiction – Performance – Nativity
08 Dec 2017 49 Comments
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Children, Flash Fiction, Nativity, Performance, School
Charli’s prompt this week:
December 7, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write that features a performance. You can interpret what is a performance any way the prompt leads you.
Well, being as I work in school teaching, this time of year is filled with performances! We have the Nursery Christmas singing to parents, the Reception Nativity, the KS1 alternative Nativity, then Lower KS 2 and Upper KS 2 hold their performances of Christmas songs from around the world too!
I am personally involved in the Nursery and Reception performance preparations this year, and I have to say, my throat is hurting from the over singing we have to do, to compensate for the vast majority of the kids who stand and do nothing!
So it goes without saying that my piece for the week would be influenced by my day job!
Nativity
“Come on children, nice and loud now! Please no shouting – it’s singing we want to hear.”
Mrs Keeble started the intro on the school piano, and nodded to the class in front of her.
As usual, there were the performers: the children who thought they were born for the stage. There were the skulkers: the ones who stood at the back, heads down, hoping no one would notice them. And then there were the stunned: the ones who stood there, gawping, no sound leaving their mouths, eyes scanning the audience for family.
Wonderful!
Welcome to another infant Christmas performance!
https://carrotranch.com/2017/12/07/december-7-flash-fiction-challenge/
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