Four Poetry Announcements I’m pleased to announce the following: Georgia Poetry Society, 2020 Member Excellence Contest, Honorable Mention, for Draining Lake Nottely. Georgia Poetry Society, The Non-Sense Poetry Award, Honorable Mention, for the discussion of nonce at the poetry roundtable  Both … Continue reading →

Yarnspinerr and the Limp Blades: A Friday Fictioneer Steamy Mystery

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“When spinning a steamy yarn, do not look to a fan base.” Confucius, 500 B.C., on the golden rule of steamy yarn-spinning.

Just a quick hello

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Hoping that this little introduction will prompt you to click “read more” and join me this morning with a few updates and a political statement.

A Novel In Search of an Author: Friday Desktioneers

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When everybody in the family wants you to do something, sometimes you just have to man up and do it. Even if you don’t know what it is you have to do or, in this case, how to even do … Continue reading →

Going Viral: Life Slices

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The following is based on a true story….

A Visit to the Tonight Studio: Friday Fictioneers

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Memories linger like the scent of her perfume or the touch of the pillow that she never shared with me because it was her favorite…

The Window of Intimacy: A Study in Stalking – Sunday Whirl “wordle”

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It is an illness, it is illegal, it is a terrible obsession/compulsion, and it wrecks the lives of its victims and the victim’s friends and families…

My Pet Snails: VisDare 10

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After my wife left me, I decided to open up an escargot breeding farm. I worked at a snail’s pace…

Walking Into the Light: Friday Fictioneers

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Some say that we see a light at the end of our lives. Some of us simply see a light bulb. Some of us go out in the dark, having not paid our last electric bill…

Who Dreamed Up Genie? VisDare 9

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This is for those people who buy the state of the art anything, spending beaucoup dollars, and then when they go to use it, end up feeling like they’re living in a foreign country.

Sometimes Sonnets Alight at Night

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Haiku’s will thread their way like ivy spreading o’er the day… but sometimes sonnets will alight at night.

A Million Dollars in Federal Funding? – Friday Fictioneers

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Why not? All the Republicans are doing it. It’s called corporate welfare… Friday Fictioneers – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week it’s: HUMOR A Million Dollars in Federal Funding? Yup. Energy bill. … Continue reading →

Jesus at a Doorway II

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If Jesus came to your door, would you be ready?

Jesus at a Doorway: Wordle 96

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week’s words are: Jesus at a Doorway A door: to Adore some surly light. A door that leads … Continue reading →

Karma Kartoons and Cosmic Comics Presents: Back to the Drawing Board – Picture it and Write

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Sometimes we’re just not in a position to negotiate…

Every Time is the First Time: Five Sentence Fiction

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Love is eternally young…

Stanley Sees the Light: VisDare 7

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There are keys, and then there are keys… then, there are doors, too.

The Pagoda of the Man Dragging Lady Through the Street (A Confucian Delight):Friday Fictioneers

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Not every one can solve a mystery – and most people opt for a frontal attack… I did not.

The Court: Wordle 95

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Have you seen the fight. It is ages old. The duality of man. Greed versus Human Rights.

The Wood Carver and the CEO: A Tale of Two Chiselers – Friday Fictioneers

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Up in the air about who you are? Here comes the plane truth. Can you handle it?

What Matters: 100WCGU

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You know what really matters and you don’t need a precept to point the way – or a hemorrhage either.

We Go Cruisin’: Day Four — Paradise Found

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We may be asea, but we are always at home…

We Go Cruisin’: Day Three — The Sea, The Sun, and Me

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The Beach Boys played all last night. You remember the lyrics…

We Go Cruisin’: Day Two – Saline

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Saline…

We Go Cruisin’: Day One — Sailing

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Sailing…

This Was a No Dream, Becky Friday Fictioneers

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With ten uncles and aunts, I was part of a large Jewish family. Fortunately, I grew up in New York City; they, for the most part, lived in a small coal mining town in Pennsylvania. An unlikely place for a … Continue reading →

The Hippo Who Thought Too-amus: To MD

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This dedicated to someone who thinks she thinks she thinks too much.

12 words – 12 steps: Wordle

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Judge Erstwhistle and me….. The Sunday Whirl blog invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 word. This week’s words are:                     … Continue reading →

They Call Me Wheelie Willie: Visual Dare

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You can call me Mr. Wheelie Willie.

Gnarled Tree

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We age like gnarled trees: A haiku Thanks to Janet at This That and the Other Thing and Tea With a Pirate for inspiration.                                 … Continue reading →

An Adult Smoking and Coping (A Fantasy): Picture it and write

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Smoking is a mature way to cope with our feelings about life… a little kid inside a grown-up’s body. Let’s watch the little kid…

The Fire Burning: Wordle

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Do you have a fire burning within you?

No Rain in Sight: Visual Dare

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Oh how I wish that it would rain…

My Tongue and My New Braces: Reason2Rhyme Poetry Prompt

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It’th not eathy thpeaking like this!!!!!!

New Year’s Eve with the Steinfelds: Friday Fictioneers

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So, waddya think, money grows on trees?

Lizardimi Non Carborundum: Don’t Let the Lizards Drag You Down

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You know how those lizards can really get you down… here’s a pep talk for you.

I See Willie Nelson in My Mirror

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I’m not getting older, I’m getting more country

Smoking Mirrors: Friday Fictioneers

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Something’s wrong with this picture…..

The DUBSTEP Goat

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The goat is a symbol of great vivacity…

I’ve Never Seen the Fiscal Cliffs

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What cliffs have you seen?

What Christmas Does

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This is what Christmas does…

My Dissolute Soul: Picture It and Write

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Some things will stay with us to the grave…

An Angel’s Choral Light: the Sunday Mini-Challenge

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Have you ever heard an angel’s chorus?

Enigma: The Sunday Whirl

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How do you solve an enigma?

Jimmy Diamonds, I Hate You: Picture It and Write

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Those were the days, back in Canarsie…

Come Play in my Garden

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This is the place we’ve all been waiting for…

Master and Catmander:

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This is a cat’s tale…

Kid Poet

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We’re the cowboys of the world.

A Real Sleeper: Julia’s Place 100WCGU

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Wow. Two Julia’s in a row. Seeing double? This story will calm you down…

They Worked When We Put Them Away: Julia’s Place 100WCGU

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The Chanukah Lights: an Irish Limerick for a Jewish Occasion