WPC: Dialogue
Inspired by this week’s Photo Challenge: Dialogue For this week’s challenge, bring together two of your photos into dialogue. What do they say to each other?
Author Archives
belle💕beckford
Always trying to escape my day job 💋
WPC: Into the Fray
My son gives new meaning to the phrase “Into the fray.” He’s never without his hat and last year he only wore out all three of them. I still don’t […]
Geronimo!
Prompted by the Weekly Photo Challenge: Into The Fray
My School Bully
Originally posted on Short…but not always so sweet 💋:
Inspired by The Daily Post’s Weekly Writing Challenge: This week, we’re asking you to write a memoir. The way in which you choose to share your memoir — be it a story, poem, flash non-fiction, or a song — is entirely…
Another man’s war
Originally posted on Short…but not always so sweet 💋:
The early morning sunlight streamed through the apertures of the window blinds casting hazy shadows on the walls. The bedside clock ticked rhythmically towards its appointed hour, where it sounded an alarm at 7:00 o’clock. Glenn uncovered his head from under…
The New Kid
Originally posted on Short…but not always so sweet 💋:
Mario hated the first day of the school year. At just nine years old, he was starting his fourth school. Teachers at his previous school would use big words to describe him, like “disruptive” and “impulsive”. No one explained to him…
Turning Vinegar Into Honey
Originally posted on Short…but not always so sweet 💋:
❈ A Random Act of Kindness (WW Challenge) At one time in my life I was a military wife. That meant spending quite of bit of time without my husband, the military member, as he tended to travel frequently away from home. Where…
My First Crush
Originally posted on Short…but not always so sweet 💋:
She’d stroll across the office in the most outlandish high heels I had ever seen. Saucer-sized hoop earrings bounced off her ear lobes with every step. A short, tight skirt revealed shapely hips and calves and when she sashayed past you, cigarette…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts. I took this at a Rolling Stones Concert last year.
Who Scored The First Goal? (a creation story)
Weekly Writing Challenge: This week, we ask you to invent (or reinvent) a creation myth. In the beginning, long before the serpent tempted Adam and Eve, before Prometheus gave fire […]
Early Morning Intruder
Originally posted on Short…but not always so sweet 💋:
From under the blanket, a hand slid up her nightshirt and caressed her hip, her thigh, her buttocks. Deep within her slumber, Desi’s subconscious registered the disturbance. But she remained asleep on her left side in the darkness, as was her…
Point of View (Writing 101)
Writing 101: Day Nine. Point of View A man and a woman walk through the park together, holding hands. They pass an old woman sitting on a bench. The old […]
Late~Night Ruminations 