We Danced an Irish Reel

Are you going to stare at me all night, or are you going to ask me to dance?

Home Sweet Mars

Photo Credit: @deirdredenaliphotography on Instagram Day 6 of the 7 Day #writingsprintchallenge offered by @tuftin.reads on Instagram. Today’s prompt is the photo above. The red hue in the upraised rock reminded me of the Red Planet and the little patches of ice, snow and green growth cast my thoughts towards the terraforming of Mars, a …

Grace, Mercy and the Cancel Culture

PC Unknown @38.media.tumblr.com Today’s entry is the 5th of 7 in the #writingsprintchallenge offered by @tuftin.reads on Instagram. She has poked the bear this time. Why do I say this? Read on… When I was 25 years old, I cheated on my wife. Once upon a time, I would have said that with quotation marks …

Lost Leaders, the Betrayed, & Wild Escapes

Photo by note thanun on Unsplash This is the fifth day of #writingsprintchallenge from @tuftin.reads on Instagram. The prompt today is a quote from James Joyce from his compendium of stream-of-consciousness writing, Ulysses. Yesterday I lay upon a gurney in a makeshift operating room in the back of an abandoned building not too far from my home, but …

A History Lesson

Image from Strange Day Duluth on Instagram This is day four in the #writingsprintchallenge offered by @tuftin.reads on Instagram. Today's prompt is the image above. You should check out the account, Strange Day Duluth for some surreal posts. My entry is called A History Lesson. Read and see why. "Class," the teacher spoke with authority, …

Rock Star

Photo by Sam Moqadam on Unsplash Today's prompt was a musical one. Warsaw by Dessa. I listened to it several times and decided to address the prompt from the perspective of a rock star. For those who are new, this is Day 3 in the #writingsprintchallenge issued by @tuftin.reads on Instagram. Below is my take on this one. …

Never Grow Old

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash. Grandparents are those warm, caring old folks that spoil their grandchildren with candy and overnight stays where you can do whatever you want. That is, most grandparents, but not mine. My grandparents were a darker sort. Granny, as we called her, was one tough, hard-working woman who chain-smoked and …

A Tiger is Set Loose

I love prompted writing! So I took up the challenge thrown down by @tuftin.reads to do a 15 minute or so writing sprint each day for the next week starting tonight. The prompt for tonight is A Tiger is Set Loose, which is the title for my piece below.Herman stood at the dining room window, …

Diva

Photo by Adrian Dascal on Unsplash The challenge was to create a piece of writing from one or more of the following prompts. As usual, I chose to do all three. I hope you enjoy! 1. A dizzy diva diving2. Golf balls by Lexus3. Gambling-a-Bermuda A ditsy, dizzy diva diving Underneath the bed, Looking for …

Playtime

Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash The challenge was to create a writing piece from one or more of the following prompts. I, as usual, chose to use all three. This one's short. Enjoy! 1. "But robots can't join heifers at the county fair, Uncle Zeeb!"2. Obsolete literate long distance information directory operators3. …