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#writephoto Flash Fiction | Once a Fisherman…

Fisherman – a good prompt for #30DaysWild, too. I used to live by a river with loads of linked reservoirs around as part of the flood defences; it was a fisher’s paradise. Several of my friends fished,...

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Man of the Woods #writephoto #flashfiction

Man of the Woods sprang out at me as I saw the #writephoto prompt for this week. The picture of the Tree Man (below) is by fellow scribe Willowdot, and it’s wonderful! KL Caley runs the #writephoto...

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Rough Steps | Flash fiction #writephoto

Rough Steps is my take on this week’s writephoto–of a stairway, which as you can see is pretty rough-hewn. My thanks go to KL Caley of New2Writing.com for continuing to keep us up to the mark with not...

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The Community Hub | Flash fiction #writephoto

Community is the focus word for this week’s #writephoto. It’s not something I’ve experienced much in the last eighteen months, except for the magnificent community of writers and bloggers online. But...

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The Submerged Antique Vase | Flash Fiction #writephoto

Submerged Antique Vase is connected to one I did a couple of years ago now, to the WEP prompt Antique Vase. As that’s now in Greed and Retribution you can’t look it up (although you can buy that...

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The Forgotten Arch | Flash Fiction #writephoto

Arch is the prompt for #writephoto this week. It’s a lovely photo by KL Caley, and gave me several ideas, but only one that persisted. I’m having trouble fitting everything in at present. Editing...

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Cliff Edge | Flash Fiction #writephoto

Cliff edge. How to write this one without being predictable? Memories of a real cliff edge came back to me. Let’s see how it goes. My thanks as always to KL Caley at New2Writing.com for continuing the...

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The Crow and his Guest – Portal | #writephoto Flash Fiction

The Crow of Nine-World is no longer on this blog, since he’s in one of my flash fiction collections–Critters and Crises, probably. Although there are two stories about him… I wonder what the other one...

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Bandstand | Flash Fiction #writephoto

Bandstand – a fixture of local parks in the UK, and I hope elsewhere in the world. I assumed that, like choirs, bands have had a tough time during Covid. This prompt left me thinking of the...

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Home is a Bridge | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Bridge is today’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. I’m a little behind in getting a short story together, and eventually it became very short: under 400 words. But I hope you enjoy...

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Jemima’s Folly | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Folly is the prompt for today’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. I saw pretty much straight away that this was the view from the other side of the Arch we had as the prompt a few...

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Whose Money? | Flash fiction #writephoto

Money – a whole load of cash in trays, not the sort of old tobacco tins I keep my book fair change in… I have no idea where I got them. My dad used to smoke a pipe, but I’m The post Whose Money? |...

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Emerging | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Emerging: it took me a while to find inspiration for this one. Well, it just took me a while to find inspiration. I’m attempting to start or find an idea for three different projects at present, so I...

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The Solitary Tomb | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Tomb is this week’s prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. I must admit, from the picture below, I wondered whether this was also part of the arch complex. But if it is, that was nowhere near East...

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The Scream | Flash Fiction #WEPFF

The Scream is the work continuing WEP’s art theme for this year’s flash fiction prompts. Edvard Munch was a Norwegian born artist who split much of his working life between Berlin and Paris. Mental...

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Skull-duggery | Flash Fiction #writephoto

Skull-duggery; skulduggery is mischief, of an underhand sort. And today’s picture prompt ‘skulls’ from KL Caley at New2Writing.com suggested skulduggery to me. I hope you enjoy the story, 985 words...

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The Lonely Pumpkin | #writephoto Flash Fiction

The Lonely Pumpkin is a 250 word flash fiction story. I’ll be doing a few of these in the next few months as I work up to an entry in the Bridport Prize flash fiction section (max 250 words), as The...

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Slow Down to Go Faster | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Slow Down is the prompt from today’s photo. I admit I didn’t see the 5 mph sign until I read the prompt post at New2Writing properly! Thank you KL Caley for another intriguing photo, full of...

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Stones of Wrath | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Stones. Large, flat stones, scattered around a field. I should warn you now, something weird appeared in my brain, and I decided to write it down! Thanks as always to KL Caley at New2Writing.com for...

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The Shopping Spree | #writephoto Flash Fiction

Shopping is not my favourite occupation. I wondered how Sir Woebegone might cope with a shopping spree. Naturally the whole topic came to me as a result of this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley...

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