Month: June 2018

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Reena’s Exploration Challenge – Week 43 6-30-2018

Reena’s Exploration Challenge

 Welcome once again!

 

I am keeping it simple this week with a picture prompt.

Mary Shelley - Literary Witches

Image Credit: Mary Shelley

The format can be a a story/poem/rant/anecdotes/journalistic coverage of events/ reflections as usual. Please give due credit to the image.

Pour out, and let it flow ….

LAST WEEK’S ROUND-UP

Reena Saxena at

https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/myth-of-equality/

hecblogger (Amit Agrawal) at

http://playingwithwords.blog/2018/06/22/lifes-you/

athling2001 at

https://athling2001.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/reenas-exploration-challenge-week-42-6-22-2018/

Jim Adams at

https://jimadamsauthordotcom.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/the-atrocity/

Michael at

https://summerstommy.com/2018/06/24/reenas-exploration-challenge-week-42-challenge/

Indira at

https://amaltaas.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/reenas-exploration-challenge-week-42-time

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Question of the Day 6-29-2018

Please feel free to answer these questions on your blog or in the responses. If you leave me a link to your post, I will re-post it on my blog. You can also feel free to forward these questions to anybody who might be interested. Thank you to those who have already shared their thoughts.

What is the best thing that has happened to you this week?

I got tired. Tired of living small. Tired of being afraid. Tired of saying, over and over, that I was going to change my life, work on my manuscripts, clean my house, fix my yard, live in the moment and then not doing it.

Have you ever had the feeling that something is changing inside you? Something vast and fantastic?

I have been feeling that way all week, like I am waiting for something new to be born inside of me. I was depressed and tired and just not able to do anything much.

Today, I woke up happy. The sun is shining. My mood is better. I am positive and hopeful and ready to try again to shape my world to my specifications.

Let the birth begin!

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FLASH FICTION FOR THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTITIONER- June 28, 2018

The challenge for Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner will open early Wednesday morning, June 27th. Allow the prompt to take you anywhere you want to go! (Limit your stories to 200 words.)

This challenge is open until 11:00 pm Thursday night, July 5th, 2018.

 

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Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner

It was the nightmare again, always the nightmare, trapped in a gauzy world of nothing on nothing on nothing.  The Notherworld, he called it. A nothing world. Full of nothing. For nothing. For nowhere.

Only for the dream.

As always, he called. Searching. “Maria! Maria!Maria!”

Always answered by the strange silence hung in that land, a silence made of nothing.

Stumbling through a white eternity. The Notherworld wastes. No Santa Claus. Not in the nightmare.

When he woke up in the morning, he was still clutching her teddy bear. Knew she was gone forever.

 

 

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FLASH FICTION FOR THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTITIONER- June 27, 2018

The challenge for Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner will open early Wednesday morning, June 20th. Allow the prompt to take you anywhere you want to go! (Limit your stories to 200 words.)

This challenge is open until 11:00 pm Thursday night, June 28, 2018.

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Kai Pilger pexels-photo-462867 Taxi

 

Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner

 

Taxi wasn’t his preferred method of travel, but it would do in a pinch. And this was the pinch of all pinches. If he didn’t get there in time, he’d be on the couch for the rest of his natural life.

The taxi driver glanced in the rear-view mirror, but he ignored the look.  Too bad if the man felt threatened. Everybody had a gun these days and most would use them just for the fun of it. He didn’t have time to explain he wasn’t one of those nor did he even own a gun. Let the man sweat. Might get him there faster.

As the cab screeched to the cub, he leapt out, tossing two fifties to the driver. Rushed into the building, collapsing into a chair just as she walked in.

“Almond coconut or chocolate chip?” he asked breathlessly.

To his relief, she smiled.

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Question of the Day 6-27-2018

Please feel free to answer these questions on your blog or in the responses. If you leave me a link to your post, I will re-post it on my blog. You can also feel free to forward these questions to anybody who might be interested. Thank you to those who have already shared their thoughts.

 

What is your top Bucket List item?

Let's do itI have always wanted to ride in a hot air balloon. I have been up in one, up and down, still tethered to the earth, but never really ridden in one. This was on my bucket list before I had a bucket list. Unfortunately, every time a chance comes up, I am tight on cash.

One day….. one day soon!