16 Mar 2018 27 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Ahead, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
No matter whatever the situation
Keep your head held high
Don’t let the world drag you down
Don’t sit and ponder “Why?”
Just focus upon the time that’s coming
Always keep looking ahead
For the best is yet to come
Look forward to that instead
Ritu 2017
https://scvincent.com/2018/03/15/thursday-photo-prompt-ahead-writephoto/
09 Mar 2018 95 Comments
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Balloons, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction, Missing
Jenny tied the last of the balloons up. There. The room looked amazing.
Decorations adorned the walls and banners saying Happy 16th Birthday were hung up around the room.
“There you are, Amelia. A party you’d have been proud to host.”
Pop!
A lone balloon burst.
And with that, Jenny burst into tears.
Was that another sign? That she wasn’t coming back?
It had been 9 years since Amelia went missing, disappeared from the local park whilst playing with her friends.
Yet Jenny had never been able to accept she wasn’t coming back.
Was it time to accept reality?
https://carrotranch.com/2018/03/09/march-8-flash-fiction-challenge/
08 Mar 2018 36 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #InternationalWomensDay, #WritePhoto, Arch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
The pathway was empty.
A strange hush surrounded the area.
Usually the place was teeming with folk, women hurrying about their daily duties, fetching supplies from the grocery shop and market, sloshing the dirty laundry water out, dropping off, or collecting children from school. The men appeared in the mornings and then at around 6 pm, either on their way to work, or returning.
You wouldn’t see a woman out then. They’d be busy getting dinner ready at the table, a feast for their menfolk.
But today, just ahead, if you stepped forward, and looked beyond the arch, you could see them.
All the women surrounded a podium on the green.
A commanding figure stood on the stage, addressing the women.
“I have had a vision. It may not happen in our lifetime, but one day, we WILL be appreciated for all the hard work we put in. It won’t be just the menfolk who are applauded for bringing the money in, but us too.”
A snigger from the crowd.
She looked over to where the noise came from.
“I kid you not. There will be a time where we will step out and work alongside them, and sometimes, even do a better job! Yet we will still be that wife, mother, home-maker… It shall be for one day each year, and one day only, but on that day, we shall celebrate being female. A day devoted to women!”
“In her dreams,” whispered Deirdre to Agnes, “now I’m late getting the tea on… spouting poppycock and nonsense like that. She’ll spoil the young’uns, putting ideas into their heads… Really! I’m off!”
https://scvincent.com/2018/03/08/thursday-photo-prompt-arch-writephoto/
02 Mar 2018 45 Comments
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction, Ravens, Tower of London
Charli’s prompt this week:
We have a set of ravens that congregate on the roofs of the houses of our neighbourhood… but they weren’t the inspiration for my flash today.
No.
I ended up thinking about the famous ravens at the Tower Of London. I knew they were meant to always be there, but wasn’t sure why, so it was time for a little research again.
Did you know they clip one wing, so the birds don’t leave, though there have been ‘escapees’ and they had to ‘sack’ some because Raven George kept eating Television aerials, and Raven Grog was sighted outside an East End Pub, drinking on the job!
I kid you not! If you want to read a little more, click here!
And here is my little attempt!
“It is a worry indeed, Your Majesty, yes. We’ve had to sack three of them this year, and getting decent replacements, well that is an increasingly tough task.”
Beefeater Chambers looked out of the window, whilst speaking to the Queen on the Royal telephone.
The requirement was six ravens to be guarding the Tower of London at any one time, or the Tower and Kingdom would fall, and this new generation, well they were useless.
They didn’t have the spunk of their ancestors, calling in sick all the time, too busy posing for the tourists and Instagram selfies.
Really!
https://carrotranch.com/2018/03/01/march-1-flash-fiction-challenge/
01 Mar 2018 27 Comments
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Between, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, dark, Haibun, Positivity
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
Though darkness surrounds us on the grounds, it’s always worth looking not only up but down too, because above, you can see the prospect of brilliance, the light breaking through the clouds, and below, the reflection of that brightness, to keep you going, even on your lowest days.
A silver lining
Every cloud has, so they say,
Beauty behind it
Reflections from that beauty
Give us reason to stay strongEach moment is like the flip side of a coin. For every up, there is a down. For every high, there is a low. Just remember, down is not necessarily a bad thing… for from down below do the shoots of strong trees sprout, growing upwards towards the light.
https://scvincent.com/2018/03/01/thursday-photo-prompt-dark-writephoto/
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