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Thursday Photo Prompt – The Glade #writephoto

19 May 2016 44 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Poetry, Sue Vincent, tanka, The Glade

Sue has given us a beautiful moss covered glade as a prompt for this week’s challenge.

Use the image to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… by Wednesday 25th May and link back to this post with a pingback. Please make sure that the pingback works and if not, copy and paste your link into the comments section of this post.

dancing trees

A tanka from me today.

A russet carpet
Upon which lay stepping stones
Of deep emerald green
“Come to me,” the sun invites
“tread the path that no one has…”

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#writephoto

FLASH IN A FLASH – #WRITESPIRATION 89

18 May 2016 30 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Blowtorch, Flash in a flash

Sacha is testing us again!

flash flash 2

Get a timer, set it for 120 seconds and when and ONLY when you are ready to do the challenge, scroll to the very end of the post to see the one-word prompt. Write hard and fast until your time is up.

Blowtorch

Pulling the ramekins out of the oven, I was really pleased with the results.

Dave loved Crème Brulee and I was determined to make this meal the best thing he had ever eaten. Never having made this before, I was following the instructions to the letter.

Now, what was next? Sprinkle sugar, ok.

Then using your blowtorch, caramelise the sugar.

Blowtorch?! No one told me I needed a blowtorch?!

“Mum! Dad! Have you got a blowtorch?”

“Yes love,” Dad answered, “it’s in the shed, I’ll just go get it.”

Moments later, Dad arrived with his protective mask and an industrial blowtorch. “Right love, what needs welding?”

The prompt word was Blowtorch.

Flash Fiction Foray #33 ‘Sh-Boom’

17 May 2016 20 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, My Writing, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction Foray, Frankie & Benny's, Sh Boom, The Crew Cuts

I love Matt’s prompt this week! It’s a song I can croon along to!

Neon Music Sign

The The Crew Cuts’ Sh-Boom.

I have definitely used a little creative licence here, there is no truth to this at all… Well, I don’t know, but it’s just how the story turned out!

“Life could be a dream, sweetheart,” Benny said, “you just gotta trust me.”

Frankie looked over the figures in front of her and glanced at him. He had his heart set on this. But it meant their savings being ploughed into something she wasn’t sure of.

He was a good cook, yeah, and she could be the hostess with the mostess, but was he really good? And could she entertain a room fulla folks?

Only time would tell…

Six months later, they unveiled Frankie & Benny’s.

Years later she thought back to that day. Thank God she had trusted him…

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #97 Magic&Glimmer

16 May 2016 40 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Glimmer and Magic, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Monday night and it is time for a haiku challenge, thanks to Lovely Ron!

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image.

Sorry, no images today to complement the Haiku, but I was a little tied up!

Eyes

Just a flash of those
Bewitchingly feline eyes
Take my breath away

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Hope

All it takes
A glimmer of hope
Pure magic

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Voodoo Dolls

Painfully sharp pins
Twinkle as I push them in
Voodoo dolls are great!

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Write a Limerick Day Has Passed But…

14 May 2016 13 Comments

by Ritu in Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Limerick, Write a limerick day

I didn’t forget… I penned two then ended up with such an awful headache, that I couldn’t switch on my Surface to post them. Then I had a wedding to attend so I am finally here, posting them two days late, but they were definitely written on the correct day! Better late than never eh!

Thanks to Annette for letting me know it was National Limerick Day!

NationalLimerick