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Category Archives: 100 word Challenge
The 100 Word Challenge
This post is inspired by Julia over at Julia’s Place. This weekly challenge is to write a creative piece of 100 words in response to a prompt. This week’s prompt is: “…in the dark recess of my mind…” I haven’t … Continue reading
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A Dog’s Dinner
This post is inspired by http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week23/. This weekly challenge is to write a creative piece of 100 words in response to a prompt. This week’s prompt is to choose a favourite carol and re-write it with the theme of a … Continue reading
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The Window
This post is inspired by http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week-21/. This weekly challenge is to write a creative piece of 100 words in response to a prompt. This week’s prompt takes the form of a picture, below. She sat at the window, … Continue reading
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Are you sure it should be that colour?
This was written for the @jfb57 100 word challenge Week 19. This week’s prompt is to write up to 150 words of dialogue including the phrase: Are you sure it should be that colour?’ “Hattie?” “Yes, Kayla.” “Your mum’s … Continue reading
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The Alphabet
This was written for the @jfb57 100 word challenge. The prompt is to do ‘something’ with, involving, pertinent to The Alphabet. Well, I mean to say, it’s just not the sort of thing that one expects, especially in Chelsea. Maybe … Continue reading
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…the unseasonal weather…
This post is inspired by http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week13/. Waking up to a warm and sunny weekend, his first thought was to invite everyone he knew to an impromptu barbeque. Enquiries at the local store drew blank expressions. It’s not our fault we … Continue reading
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Euro(vision) Meltdown Fear
This was written for the @jfb57 100 word challenge (wk 12). I found this to be quite a difficult challenge and it took me a while to settle on something. I’ve written this from the point of view of a … Continue reading
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Out of the Mouths of Babes
I was in the laundrette, about twenty years ago, usual uneventful Saturday attending to necessary chores. The day would have passed unremembered but for a small boy of about four. I didn’t have children at the time, had no idea … Continue reading
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