#WRITESPIRATION #136 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 41 – What Happened Next @sacha_black #FlashFiction #MicroFiction

11 Oct 2017 14 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fiction Challenge, Flash Fiction, Photo Prompt, Sacha Black, What Happened Next

Sacha’s #Writespiration prompt this week…

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Write about what happens next:

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What happened next?
What always happens…
I stood there, contemplating the world… then the clouds rolled over.
I could sense the rain about to fall.
I’d come prepared this time though.
Had my hood up ready to combat the torrent that was sure to follow…
But it didn’t.
So I went home.

http://sachablack.co.uk/2017/10/11/writespiration-136-52-weeks-in-52-words-week-41/

One-Liner Wednesday – #1LinerWeds – Conditioning?

11 Oct 2017 40 Comments

by Ritu in #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday, Children, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #1linerweds, #onelinerwednesday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Children, Conditioning, Linda G Hill

“When it’s my birthday, only children with faces like mine can come” – 3 Year Old School Child

This was a slightly worrying statement made by a three-year-old child in school… He wasn’t talking about them having to be young and his age, or cute, but when he said f”aces like mine”, he went on to add “no brown faces.”

If that isn’t conditioning, then what is? Surely at three, children shouldn’t even really be aware of differences like that in away? Of course most of them can describe themselves and others by colour, but to put such a negative spin on skin colour at three… Me no likey…

And yet he is my friend… Brown face… er, hello?

For Linda’s #1LinerWeds Challenge.

Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Tuesday Challenge No. 54: GHOST & HAUNT #Cinquain #Senryu #Haiku

10 Oct 2017 22 Comments

by Ritu in #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #ColleensWeeklyPoetryChallenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cinquain, Colleen Chesebro, Ghost & Haunt, Haiku, Poetry Challenge, Senryu

Lovely Colleen has given us some great words for the Poetry challenge this week!

Ghost & Haunt

I’m trying my hand at the Cinquain:

From Pixabay

Haunting
Ghostly beings
Floating, stalking, spooking
Chilling feelings spreading about
Scary

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And a Senryu (Hope I got it right this time!)

From Pixabay

The ghost of your love
Haunting my life forever
I’ll never forget

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Then a haiku!

From Pixabay

A ghostly presence
Haunting the doorsteps all round
Pumpkin ghoulies grin

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Nominated For The Liebster Award! – Hot Mess Memoir

10 Oct 2017 16 Comments

by Ritu in Awards, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Leibster Award

When it rains… it pours!!! But happy raindrops!

This time Angela from Hot Mess Memoirs has thought to nominate me for the Leibster Award!

As I have accepted this a few times in the past I would like to offer this share as thanks.

Her blog is hysterical. You just gotta go visit!

https://hotmessmemoir.com/2017/10/10/nominated-liebster-award/

‘That’ Song – #RomanticTuesday

10 Oct 2017 37 Comments

by Ritu in #RomanticTuesday, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #RomanticTuesday, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Bloog, Don't Let Go, En Vogue, Erika Kind, Love Songs

Erika, my blog sis, set up a hashtag #RomanticTuesday to share all things romantic.

Today, I wanted to share a song that I absolutely love. It makes me think of my Hubby Dearest all the time, from the moment we got together. It is passionate, as well as romantic, I think.

En Vogue – Don’t Let Go

This particular verse, I always love:

“I often fantasize
The stars above are watching you
They know my heart and speak to yours
Like only lovers do
If I could wear your clothes
I’d pretend I was you and lose control
There’ll be some lovemaking, heartbreaking, soul shaking
Oh lovemaking, heartbreaking, soul shaking, oh yeah”

I used to always borrow his tee-shirts and jumpers! (I still do, twenty years on!)