This is Monday Zapfic in which we try to create a story in 240 characters or less! Today's prompt is "stamp." The instructions are here in case you want to try. Not a Prize-Winning Potato She

This is a fictional freewrite, using the prompt: "design feature." Here are the instructions for the daily freewrite, in case you are interested. Spinning Robot "It's not a bug. It's a design

This is my entry for the weekly Zapfic Friday contest. The goal is to write as complete a story as possible with the given prompt in precisely 50 words. This week's prompt is "chocolate." Confession:

QUESTION OF THE WEEK SEASON 10.3 What habits or addictions, both good and bad, have you developed, and which you would like to get rid of? This week, I decided to get involved in the ecoTrain question

Freewrite using today's prompt from Marianne West: bliss. Hello. May I Hold Your Baby? I walked right up to the woman. It was pouring rain, and she looked harassed. I pointed to the stroller. “Hello. May

This is my freewrite for the prompt "Move Your Money" by Marianne West. “Move your money,” he said as he held the barrel of the gun against the small of my back. The room was crowded, and I wasn’t

This is my entry for Zapfic Monday, a story in 240 characters using the prompt "shock": Shock Lisa was not a fan of pasta. This was probably because Mom took "al dente" to mean "barely

Freewrite using prompt: Inflation Freewrite introductory post After the Explosion... After the explosion, I sat at the side of the road on my suitcase. All the valuable stuff was in there anyhow. The least

I live in Alberta, Canada. What might not seem obvious is that I take this war in the Ukraine very personally. We should take all threats to freedom and democracy personally, but my province has the largest

Source: It is Saturday. There are 83 reasons to write and I want to procrastinate. Do you like to procrastinate? I love it. And I am good at it. Play to your strengths. That's what my Aunt Elma always

Spring Chicken This is my response to the five minute writing prompt "spring chicken": You can't be a spring chicken if you're actually a duck. "You're no spring chicken." His words,

The evil smile spread across her beautiful, full blood red lips. He would think he was getting away with it, but she would know the truth. She was secretly delighted. This had been years in coming. He

This is my entry for the freewriting prompt given here. What do I like to do with problems? I treat each problem like an orange. My goal is to get that thick, luscious peel off in one long spiral. If I

Christmas this year will just be me, the dog, and the cats. So, I won't be completely alone. I am grateful for so many things. I got a writing grant, and, while it's not a lot of money, it makes me feel

Photo Credit: "You Miss 100% Of The Shots You Don't Take." -Wayne Gretzky Time Sometimes, it feels like time just passes by. One day follows after another and I get caught up in routines. Before I know

Source: Which Memory? I am so Blessed! I have been very fortunate, and when I look back on my life, it is difficult to pick out just one memory as my happiest. However, I think the happiest was probably

Source: It seems almost silly to think of having a relationship of any sort with a number, but that's what it feels like. I simply do not enjoy the number 13. I have had an irrational dislike or even phobia

I was very excited to see the sudden and huge increase in the value of the HIVE token today. As many of you know, it shot up by over 80%. It made me wish I bought a whole lot more HIVE, but there will

Source: Author Ian Tyson Was Right There is a Canadian folk song by Ian Tyson called, "Four Strong Winds." You may have heard it because it is somewhat famous. There is a line in the song,

JillWellington, Pixabay.com Way, Way Back in the Olden Days... The year was 1991. Can you believe that? I had been quite a nerdy girl most of my life, learning to program in Basic on the Apple IIe and