Flash! Fridays has an all new setup from this week onwards. Now, in addition to the (optional) photo prompt, we are given several elements of a famous novel to act as inspiration and we select two to incorporate. This week was...
Read MoreFor this weeks Flash! Friday we had to incorporate the character of a writer into a story about the following prompt: Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon. Studio promotional still photo 1936, public domain. Writers Block Another dead...
Read MoreFor this weeks Warmup Wednesday we had to incorporate a lifelong goal that wasn’t the Olympics into a story about the following prompt: Olympic Games, 1896; the athlete Herman Weingartner, horizontal bar champion. Public...
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As summer rolls around you may start thinking about the beach, the lake, or whatever happy place...
Read MoreFor this weeks Flash! Friday we had to incorporate the theme of Deja Vu into a story about the following prompt: Train wreck at Montparnasse, 1895. Public domain photo. Derailed I’ve watched this scene a hundred times. I’m...
Read MoreFor this weeks Warmup Wednesday we had to include a birthday or the anniversary of a death into a story about the following prompt: Taj Mahal. CC2.0 photo by Roehan Rengadurai. The Dawn His eyes light up as the sun rises over...
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<GOTO 10> The noise is tremendous, the sound of a thousand forest fires happening inches...
Read MoreFor this weeks Flash! Friday we had to incorporate a theatre into a story about the following prompt: Louis Dodier as a prisoner, 1847. Public domain daguerrotype photo by Louis Adolphe Humbert de Molard; courtesy Google Art...
Read MoreFor this weeks Warmup Wednesday we had to incorporate the beginning or end of a lifelong journey into a story about the following prompt: Rowboat. CC2.0 photo by Grant MacDonald. Beached whale Why do I always get the fatties? He...
Read MoreFor this weeks Flash! Friday we had to incorporate a farmer into a story about the following prompt: Inspection. CC2.0 photo by Brian (Ziggy) Liloia. Free Range Farmer Jones watched the cloud of dust approach. He knew the van...
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