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Fiction Friday #158 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A Coming of Age Tale Marty lounged in front of the crackling fire in his...

Fiction Friday #168 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The conversation took off when Louise mentioned Bruce Willis. I decided to go short and...

Fiction Friday #175 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: “Lonely in Paradise” Being my first week in culinary school and being saddled with a...

Fiction Friday #177 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: What is your Characters Very Mild SuperPowers? Click this link to listen to the song...

Fiction Friday #179 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: In most parts of the world, Halloween is celebrated – in some form or another...

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Fiction Friday #169 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The note taped to the door said: See you at Wild Notes Karaoke Bar. I...

Fiction Friday #181 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Utilise the T.S.O.D – a NaNoWriMo tradition. The rules are simple. In your story, kill...

Fiction Friday #133 You can blame Benjamin Solah for this one. I visited his blog today – as I do every day...

Fiction Friday #159 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include this in your story: “I wish he’d knock on my door instead……..” Jan Weathers...

Fiction Friday #183 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Set your story in a dry cleaners The soft glow of red highlighted her face...

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Fiction Friday #174 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Use this lyric from Shore Leave to flavour your story: “Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban...

Fiction Friday #175 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: “Lonely in Paradise” Being my first week in culinary school and being saddled with a...

Fiction Friday #166 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay...

Fiction friday #172 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Use one or more of these words in your story (but resist the temptation to...

Fiction Friday #161 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include a telepathic parrot in your story. I had loads of fun with this prompt....

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Fiction Friday #155 After a long hiatus from participating in Fiction Fridays, I’ve decided to start playing again. I didn’t quit for any...

Fiction Friday #183 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Set your story in a dry cleaners The soft glow of red highlighted her face...

Fiction Friday #168 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The conversation took off when Louise mentioned Bruce Willis. I decided to go short and...

Fiction Friday #177 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: What is your Characters Very Mild SuperPowers? Click this link to listen to the song...

Fiction Friday #171 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: “Albert is Dead” Along with romantic scenes, many writers find writing a scene which involves...

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Fiction Friday #179 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: In most parts of the world, Halloween is celebrated – in some form or another...

Fiction Friday #166 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay...

Fiction Friday #167 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Strains of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” floated into the room. As Eric Sandburg...

Fiction Friday #169 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The note taped to the door said: See you at Wild Notes Karaoke Bar. I...

Fiction Friday #182 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include at least one of these words (or as many as you can!) in your...

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Fiction Friday #158 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A Coming of Age Tale Marty lounged in front of the crackling fire in his...

Fiction Friday #167 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Strains of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” floated into the room. As Eric Sandburg...

Fiction Friday #166 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay...

Fiction Friday #171 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: “Albert is Dead” Along with romantic scenes, many writers find writing a scene which involves...

Fiction Friday #177 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: What is your Characters Very Mild SuperPowers? Click this link to listen to the song...

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Fiction Friday #159 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include this in your story: “I wish he’d knock on my door instead……..” Jan Weathers...

Fiction Friday #167 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Strains of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” floated into the room. As Eric Sandburg...

Fiction Friday #166 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay...

Fiction Friday #169 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The note taped to the door said: See you at Wild Notes Karaoke Bar. I...

Fiction Friday #162 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Write about a man with an impossibly bad streak of luck on his birthdays, who,...

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Fiction Friday #139 “Turn left up here” “At the big Oak?” “Yeah, that’s it” she said with that youthful exuberance that drew him...

Fiction Friday #163 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: In her right hand a woman holds a loaded gun, in her left, a coin...

Fiction Friday #164 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Use a McGuffin in your story. McGuffin: An object or person in a movie that...

Fiction Friday #176 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Your Main Character is a time traveler. He/She arrives at a destination but not all...

Fiction Friday #159 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include this in your story: “I wish he’d knock on my door instead……..” Jan Weathers...

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Fiction friday #172 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Use one or more of these words in your story (but resist the temptation to...

Fiction Friday #159 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include this in your story: “I wish he’d knock on my door instead……..” Jan Weathers...

Fiction Friday #169 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The note taped to the door said: See you at Wild Notes Karaoke Bar. I...

Fiction Friday #183 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Set your story in a dry cleaners The soft glow of red highlighted her face...

Fiction Friday #167 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Strains of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” floated into the room. As Eric Sandburg...

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Fiction Friday #155 After a long hiatus from participating in Fiction Fridays, I’ve decided to start playing again. I didn’t quit for any...

Fiction Friday #169 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The note taped to the door said: See you at Wild Notes Karaoke Bar. I...

Fiction Friday #178 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include this theme in your story… After a long night, a hunter sees something he/she...

Fiction Friday #134 “There, that should just about do it” he whispered under his breath as he worked placing the last piece of...

Fiction Friday #162 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Write about a man with an impossibly bad streak of luck on his birthdays, who,...

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