September 13 – Flash Fiction – Pasta – Preschool Style

14 Sep 2018 37 Comments

by Ritu in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction, pasta, Pasta Necklace, Teacher

Charli’s prompt this week:

September 13, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes pasta. It can be spagetti, macaroni and cheese, or any variety. It can be a meal or a work of art. Go where the prompt leads.

Pasta – Preschool Style

“Okay, today we are making Mother’s Day gifts for your mummies, grandmas, or aunties.
What I want you to do is take the string in one hand, and pick up a piece of pasta.
Remember, the other day, we painted it?
It’s like a tube, and you can thread the string through it, and make a lovely necklace.
No, David, you can’t eat it.
Penny! Stop strangling Julia with the string!
Peter! Don’t tip the tray upside d-…
Don’t worry Mary, we can pick it all up, stop crying, please…”
The life of a pre-school teacher.

https://carrotranch.com/2018/09/13/september-13-flash-fiction-challenge/

#WritePhoto – Spectral

13 Sep 2018 43 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Blogging 101, Fiction, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Spectral

Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

A house left alone
A house torn apart
A house with no people
A house with no heart
A house filled with memories
A house left to rot
A house left with ghosts
A house gone to pot

Ritu 2018

https://scvincent.com/2018/09/13/thursday-photo-prompt-spectral-writephoto/

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #218 Steam & Cover

10 Sep 2018 33 Comments

by Ritu in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blogging 101, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Haiku, Steam & Cover

Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:

Steam & Cover

Synonyms in use today!

Hills, Landscape, Mist, Smoke, Forest

Dew coated grass blades
Mists appearing over fields
Morning has broken

Ritu 2018

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image 2016

https://ronovanwrites.com/2018/09/10/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-218-steamcover/

#SoCSSeptember 8/18 – Earworm

08 Sep 2018 47 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Earworm, Socs

Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “earworm.” Talk about your latest earworm, or one that habitually haunts you. Enjoy!

I have to say, I appear to have suffered a whole load of earworms over the last few years, as the kids repeatedly listen to the same songs over and over… and over… but as I get older, I miss who they’re actually by and what the song title is. I’m that annoying one who says “You know the song…!” and then proceed to hum or sing it wrong.

However, I do have one that I am enjoying right now, as Lil Princess loves to watch the video, spotting the different famous faces in it.

Maroon 5’s Girls Like You ft. Cardi B

It’s a great song, and I don’t know all the words, so the chorus seems to play on repeat in my head when I least expect it.

And here it is so it can be your earworm too!

Catch ya later Peeps! Happy Saturday!

https://lindaghill.com/2018/09/07/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-sept-8-18/

September 6- Flash Fiction – An Epic Workplace

07 Sep 2018 38 Comments

by Ritu in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, An Epic Workplace, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Flash Fiction

Charli’s prompt this week:

September 6, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write about an epic workplace. It can be real or imagined. Go where the prompt leads.

Epic

The door opened into a room where the atmosphere was teeming with enthusiasm.
Everywhere, industrious individuals attempted to solve their own problems in inventive manners.
There were specific areas for everything, from creative, to constructive, collaborative to computing.
A second door led to a huge outside area, filled with opportunities to stretch ideas.
Turning back into the room, I knew this was it. This was the place I wanted to be, the most epic workplace I’d encountered.
A classroom that put the children’s interests first, that stretched their thinking and allowed them to grow as individuals.
This was it.

https://carrotranch.com/2018/09/06/september-6-flash-fiction-challenge/