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Microfiction challenge

Posted on December 8, 2017 by pensitivity101

Thanks Jane. This one certainly opens up some ideas! https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/4205397/posts/1692827920 Painting by Hugo Simberg When they started throwing stones into the smoke, the two boys had no idea they were intruding on a sacred ceremony. Sam suddenly felt excruciating pain … Continue reading →

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April 13: Flash Fiction Challenge: The Ring

Posted on April 14, 2017 by pensitivity101

April 13, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write about a ring. Keep the definition to that of a piece of jewelry. Whose ring is it and what’s its significance? Go where the prompt leads. https://carrotranch.com/2017/04/14/april-13-flash-fiction-challenge-2/ Embedded … Continue reading →

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Sunday Strange microfiction challenge

Posted on March 20, 2017 by pensitivity101

I was beginning to think I’d missed Jane’s challenge this week as our wifi has been up and down. Phew! So glad to see it here today. https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/4205397/posts/1384405505 Painting by Ford Madox Brown. It was the lambing season and a … Continue reading →

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March 2: Flash Fiction Challenge

Posted on March 3, 2017 by pensitivity101

Here is Charli’s challenge this week: March 2, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) include slag in a story. Slag is a glass-like by-product of smelting or refining ore. Slag is also used in making glass or … Continue reading →

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Vasilisa the Beautiful

Posted on February 26, 2017 by pensitivity101

My title is the name of Jane Dougherty’s ‘Sunday Strange’ painting by Ivan Bilibin, which has an interesting fairy tale behind it. I looked it up on WIKI. It reminded me a little of Cinderella, but no posh frock, fancy … Continue reading →

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Sunday Strange microfiction challenge: 26th Feb

Posted on February 26, 2017 by pensitivity101

Thanks Jane for posting another Sunday challenge https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/4205397/posts/1354950496   Image by Russian illustrator, Ivan Bilibin. They waited in the shadows. Eons ago they had been massacred en masse, heads separated from their bodies, their bones burnt and buried in crude … Continue reading →

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Sunday Strange microfiction challenge

Posted on February 19, 2017 by pensitivity101

Jane’s given us another gem to peruse over. https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/4205397/posts/1346120843 This painting is by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Gladys, armed with her burying staff, set about to tend the graves of the latest dear departed. Being somewhat new to the job, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Strange microfiction challenge

Posted on February 12, 2017 by pensitivity101

This painting is by Gabriel von Max Thanks Jane . Definitely an interesting one. https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/sunday-strange-microfiction-challenge/ Come out of the shadows: You need the light more than I, Blind as I am I can see you lurking, Take the lamp if … Continue reading →

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Microfiction challenge: Looking for pebbles

Posted on February 5, 2017 by pensitivity101

Thanks Jane, I’ve missed your painting challenges so was glad to see this one pop up in my reader tonight. https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/4205397/posts/1327164056 Painting: Greek girls picking up pebbles by Frederick Leighton. It was a punishment. The girls had been caught entertaining … Continue reading →

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Microfiction Challenge: 29th December. Home Fires

Posted on December 30, 2016 by pensitivity101

December 29, 2016 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a cozy story. What is it to be cozy, to experience Danish hygge? It doesn’t need to be culture-specific, but it can be an interesting point of comparison … Continue reading →

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