24 May 2017
by Ritu
in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #Writespiration, 52 Word Challenge, Bare Shell, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black
Sacha’s back with her #Writespiration prompt this week.
Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Tell me the story of why this room is empty!

Everything.
They took everything.
Not one fixture or fitting left to adorn the walls of this now bare shell of a room.
“If the bank are chucking us out, we aren’t leaving a thing, not even the carpet!” Rhys exclaimed.
They left, but not before unearthing a floorboard…that would make them think!
22 May 2017
by Ritu
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Haiku Challenge, Ronovan Hester, Ronovanwrites
Ron is back with two more great words for his Haiku Challenge!


Image from Pixabay
Frost threatened nature
It’s a miracle indeed
That we saved the blooms
Ritu 2017
20 May 2017
by Ritu
in #tjshouseholdhaikuchallenge, Poems
Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku
TJ has a great photo and pair of words for our haiku prompt today!

And here is my first response for the photo with the words added. I have opted for the 3/5/3 traditional Japanese haiku form for this first one.
Blue skies filled
With melodious birds
Spring begins
Ritu 2017
And one reflecting exactly how I feel right now, using the 5/7/5 traditional English form.

Singing the blues here
Feeling sorry for myself
Throat infections suck!
Ritu 2017
Proud member of the Haiku Hub!

18 May 2017
by Ritu
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Inside out, Photo Prompt, Sue Vincent
Sue’s #writephoto prompt this week. We’ve been spoiled with two photos today!


Ginny looked at the window sill.
Drat! Another leak!
It was strange.
There hadn’t been any rain the last few days, in fact it had been surprisingly pleasant for a February.
She went off to go and tend to the guests they had staying at the Manor House this week.
A rather rowdy, but well off group of gentlemen, footballers, she thought they said they were. Well, you would have to be well off to rent out a Manor House like this for a whole week!
It was a ‘stag do’ they said, celebrating the last few nights of bachelorhood of one of their number.
Youngsters nowadays, Ginny thought. Back in her day, the men popped to the local for a quick pint to ward off the nerves of the Groom-to-be. Now they celebrated with days of drinking and eating and rather raucous music and behaviour!
They had taken to congregating in the large attics that had been converted. Apparently the acoustics were much better there, for their loud music.
Really, had this been twenty years ago, Sir Rotherham would never have allowed this type of jaunt on his property, but since his death, young Master Rotherham (she still couldn’t call him Sir… ) had taken to finding any way to make money from their estate. No scruples, that young man.
In fact, while this bunch of famous louts were wrecking the place she had looked after for the last fifty years, Master Rotherham was firmly ensconced within their group, enjoying being surrounded by all this ‘money’. He kept talking about selfies with various names she had never heard of, and being ‘liked’ on Insta-chat, or Snap-gram, whatever it was called!
Talking of Master Rotherham, she could hear his voice. He sounded rather high of spirits… probably due to the amount of spirits he had consumed. Never was good with alcohol, that boy…
Ginny went to look out of the window, where she felt the voice was coming from.
Gasping, she took a step back!
Well, that was a part of Master Rotherham’s anatomy that she hadn’t seen since he was a whippersnapper! And now she knew what that ‘leak’ was all about.
Really! Sir Rotherham would be rolling in his grave if he could see this!
I hope you enjoyed my silly tale!

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