CURSING THE DARKNESS

“Coming or Going”

For todays prompt consider the beginning and/or the end of life.

Write about someone being born

and/or

Write about someone dying.

Perhaps you are the baby in the womb, or the mother on the delivery table.

Maybe you are the dearly departing or a relative or close friend.

Does your story involve someone coming into the world or leaving it... or both?

Rainy Tuesday

Monday's Market

Image courtesy of Digital Photography School

An Excerpt to Insert

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people,

and, as generally happens in such cases,

each time it was a different story.

~Excerpt from Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Three Word Salad Saturday

You know the drill, right?  Write a flashy bit o'fiction that incorporates the following three (count 'em...3) words:

1. agroof (ah-GROOF) — to fall flat on your face

The word that means "to fall flat on the face" is commendable for its precision. I like the inclusion of "roof" for a word that means a "fall."

 2. louche (LOOSH) — of questionable taste or morality; decadent

The very sound of it conjures decadence.

  3.  cusp (KUSP) 1. a point or pointed end. 2. a pointed or rounded projection on the chewing surface of a tooth; a triangular fold or flap of a heart valve. 3. a point at which a curve crosses itself and at which the two tangents to the curve coincide. 4. the point of intersection of two ornamental arcs or curves, such as the inner points of a trefoil. 5. either point of a crescent moon. 6. a transitional point or time, as between two astrological signs.

Just the sound...It is a great word

***Note: The above words came from a fab list of great words called Vocabula.

~Stepping Out...~

                                                       (Image courtesy of Photobucket)
In life we've all been faced with choices that color where we stand today. Colorfully create a "stepping out," experience if you like or whatever this photo prompts in you... Happy Friday writing, smiles!

I OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES

With the "Oscar" frenzy over for another year our minds are still in Gollywood mode. Provided below are five famous quotes from various motion pictures. Take one of them and write a story in which the quote becomes the LAST line of your story.

From "Cool Hand Luke" - "What we've got here, is a failure to communicate!"

or from "A Few Good Men" - "You can't HANDLE the truth!"

or from "The Apartment" - "Shut up and deal!"

or from "Scarface" - "Say 'ello to my lil' friend!"

or from "Dracula" - "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."

One Thing Leads To Another

Every action has a reaction. The reaction is an action and there is another reaction. Think about a sequence of happenings, a string of events, a progression, or a chain reaction. Write your story where one thing leads to another.

Wash Away...

On the Red Carpet, Oscar Night

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I Speak for the Trees

photo credit: Justin Jackson

Today, tell the story of a tree. This one, or one of your choosing (home to a favorite tree house when you were a child, perhaps…or shade provider at your favorite park). What has it seen? Heard? Felt? What stories have unraveled at its very feet? Or, what’s its own story? Is it happy? Content? Ready for a change?

Let the breeze blow through your own limbs, write somethin’, and then make like a tree and “leave” it here. (Yep, there will be puns on Sundays.)

Will you...

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~An Act of Contrast~

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If you like, write to this picture specifically, or explore an idea of contrasting, imagery extremes in your writing today. 

Contrasting:

1. a. The act of contrasting; a setting off of dissimilar entities or objects.

b. The state of being contrasted: red berries standing in vivid contrast against the snow.

Have fun Friday-fiction-flashers!! Because everybody has a little story to tell...

ONE DAY AT LAKESIDE