01 Feb 2018
by Ritu
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #WritePhoto, Barbie and Ken, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Essex, Fiction, Joey, Photo Prompt, Shrine, Sindy
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken.
Ken’s face was plastered across every surface available, like a shrine to him.
Photos of him coming and going from various places, smiling, terse looking, with friends or colleagues, but most often alone.
There were a few of him with Barbie, but not many from the recent weeks.
Sindy sat, looking at them, trying to glean something from the images in front of her.
Nothing.
Nothing to report.
It wasn’t often that she was unsuccessful in these challenges she was set, but Ken was proving to be a tough one.
Could he be… honest?
Unlikely for a man, but if he was… that Barbie was a lucky woman, and she didn’t realise just how lucky she was.
She still had a few days though.
Could Sindy break him?
https://scvincent.com/2018/02/01/thursday-photo-prompt-shrine-writephoto/
30 Jan 2018
by Ritu
in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, #MicroPoetry, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Bond & Seek, Cinquain, Poetry
Colleen’s back with her synonym poetry challenge!
The words to (not) use are:
Sorry, I could only manage a cinquain this week…
Pixabay Image
Fettered
Searching release
Hunting, hoping, wanting
To pursue elusive freedom
Shackled
Ritu 2018
https://colleenchesebro.com/2018/01/30/colleens-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-69-bond-seek-snynomnsonly/
29 Jan 2018
by Ritu
in #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #MicroPoetry, #ronovansweeklyhaikuchallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Body & Close, Challenge, Haiku
Lovely Ron with his Haiku Challenge prompt words this week:
I tried really hard to do a real haiku, basing it around nature, but my brain wasn’t engaging! However, I managed a senryu, using synonyms instead!
Carressing your form
My hands giving you pleasure
Intimate contact
Ritu 2018
26 Jan 2018
by Ritu
in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Choices, Flash Fiction, The Edge, Therapist
Charli’s prompt this week:
January 25, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that goes to the edge. Consider what the edge might be and how it informs the story. Go where the prompt leads.
“It feels like I’m standing on a knife edge, and I don’t know which way to fall…” Lucy carried on.
“On one side there is familiarity, there are constraints, there’s suspicion, there is the happiness of being part of ‘us’.
On the other, a different way of living, emptiness, the possibility of freedom, not being judged, there’s just me.”
Dr Jones looked at his patient, surprised by the depth of her words. As her therapist, it was his job to listen, and guide her… but did he want to be the one to push her one way or another?
https://carrotranch.com/2018/01/25/january-25-flash-fiction-challenge/
25 Jan 2018
by Ritu
in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories
Tags: #WritePhoto, Barbie and Ken, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Essex, Fiction, Joey, Photo Prompt, Sindy, Woodland
Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:
I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken.
“Fancy meeting you here.”
Ken stopped in his tracks. He knew that voice, and it wasn’t from one of the Scottish locals he’d met since getting here.
There was a distinct Essex twang to the voice.
Joey was up ahead, chatting with some girls they’d met on this Woodland Walk they’d signed up to.
Talking to women wasn’t on the top of his list, to be honest, this weekend, so he’d let them carry on, keeping his thoughts for company.
“Penny for them.”
Sindy stepped in line with him, matching his pace.
“Sindy! What are you doing here?”
“Oh, I just fancied a break. And look who I bump into! Where’s Barbie?”
Ken looked down. “It’s just me and Joey. She stayed back home.”
“Hmmm, boy’s holiday then! I get it… While the cat’s away, and all that, is it?” She looked at him conspiratorially.
“Oh, no! Nothing like that. I just needed some space. Some time to myself. Joey just tagged along. Any excuse to get away.”
Sindy threaded her arm through his. “I’m a good listener, you know..”
Ken looked down at her hand resting on his arm, and pulled away.
“Er, thanks, yeah. Oh, I need to catch up with Joey, or else he’s going to disappear with those girls, and he’s got my hotel room key card!”
Without a backwards glance, he sped up, leaving Sindy behind.
She got out her phone, opened a new text message and typed ‘He’s alone, not taken the bait yet…” and pressed send…
To be continued…
https://scvincent.com/2018/01/25/thursday-photo-prompt-woodland-writephoto/
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