Daily Prompt: Places Beach, mountain, forest, or somewhere else entirely? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJhq46ZpVbM For me, any or all of those will suffice; so long as they are wild and empty spaces. Not for me the burning sun, oiled bodies, chilled beer and sun loungers. Cliff’s beach party would send me scurrying inland to the mountains. As it happens, …
Category archives: Memory
Dear me…
Daily Prompt: Back to the Future A service has been invented through which you can send messages to people in the future. To whom would you send something, and what would you write? Dear Beth You are old now, and failing. Do not grieve. Do not rail against your aged bones or mourn the things you …
Sod Off, Sod
Daily Prompt: Comedy of Errors Murphy’s Law says, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Write about a time everything did — fiction encourage here, too! The ruling force of my life is The Law of Sod: if anything can go wrong, it will. My problem with today’s prompt is the absence of the …
Letting Go of Stuff
Daily Prompt: Happily Ever After “And they lived happily ever after.” Think about this line for a few minutes. Are you living happily ever after? If not, what will it take for you to get there? Yes. It is tempting to state “I hope so” and argue that we can not know what the future holds …
2006, a year of change
Daily Prompt: Buffalo Nickel Dig through your couch cushions, your purse, or the floor of your car and look at the year printed on the first coin you find. What were you doing that year? Pause for rummage. I have here a UK 10 pence piece, dated 2006. 10p, small change, 2006, big changes. That year …