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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition March 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 3 days, 17 hours ago
Cheeky leap into an attempt of an opener for ‘Snap is not a children’s game’
Vic Duncan. Did Lucy but know it, the first of three Duncan men she’d sleep with before she died, possibly dangerous, but an especially satisfying addition to her habitual maintenance of a quartet of alphabetically consecutively-named lovers.
It began in the final yea…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Congratulations Terrie – a tale that got richer with every re-reading, as did those of Alex at Ath. And thank you Pinkbelt for the challenge.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – February 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month ago
Retrieving memories
When on the Word Cloud, in 2014, Alan P proposed the challenge ‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’, I was in need of an explanation as to why Luke Darbyshere ( DI and main character in my ‘Love triangles with murder series) regularly sabotaged relationships at the point when they looked like becoming meaningful. His upbring…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 1 month ago
Have to confess I avoid much of that for Steve, by ordering and collecting the books I want and handing them over for him to ‘hide’ (recognising he is doubly challenged by my having a birthday five days before Christmas.)
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Sandra changed their profile picture 1 month ago
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Sandra replied to the topic Reorganization And Declutteration (have I created a new word) in the forum Blogs 1 month ago
@ Terrie – I second Ath’s recommendation for hard drives: the one my thoughtful elder son bought for me, having listened to my moans, scrambled its contents when my laptop blew several gaskets.
@Athelstone – “gift lists for next year” not illegal, they masquerade as Amazon wish lists, ready to be re-written for handing to my local bookshop.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Thanks, Athers, for a competition theme that gave me much head-scratching before I found a direction, and for chuckling, since I didn’t intend to sound self-pitying. Also I thoroughly applaud your giving Pinkbelt the opportunity to challenge us in February.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hi Pinks. Good to hear from you. Hope you stick around a bit longer, cease lurking and share a few words.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Competition – January 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 month, 2 weeks ago
‘Mirror, Mirror …
When I say my bathroom mirror is old you shouldn’t imagine some gilt-framed, spidery-silvered antique, for it is a bevelled-edged two-foot square of glass, bought in ~1969 and screwed at each corner onto the wall above the sink and opposite a window twelve inches larger in each direction.
In daylight, my image backlit…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 4 months, 4 weeks ago
I’m now almost halfway through Salter’s ‘Collected Stories’ and can understand how the short, sharp sentences make an impact, but I find most of his characters, male and female, seem a bit self-obsessed, and, for me, there is over-much description (as is often the case with American literature.) At least they are readable! Some time since I read…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 5 months ago
@ Daeds and Libby,
re James Salter, 2/3 years ago II read and was impressed by a short story featured in a newspaper. Eagerly borrowed ‘A sport and a pastime’ from the library and found it heavy-going. Couple of months ago I bought his ‘Collected Stories, but have yet to begin it, but hope to do so with an eye to his style..
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Sandra posted an update 5 months, 1 week ago
Version #4, snappier start, 6 characters, 682 words but not a clue what is going to be “done” to start anyone wondering “who?” I’ll be in Australia for four weeks – thank goodness the deadline is February.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – October 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m not at all sure I’ve fully adhered to the brief, but this scraping of possibilities from my current wip is the best I can do, before I leave the country 😉
Scene:
Need for a wee had Lucy check the time. Half ten. She’d been lying in her bed for more than two hours. Not moved since she’d taken refuge. Since hearing the click of the stre…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – October 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh, EXCELLENT idea Sea – 0nly problem now, which do I choose??
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Yes, I’ve got ??? : -)
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Congratulations @ Seagreen, and thank you Squidge for prompt words, comments and competition – a lot of fascinating uses of the three words.
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Sandra posted a new activity comment 6 months ago
Wasn’t aware it was being counted (and am still not convinced my clicking ‘like’ isn’t a lazy response, though at times it does feel most appropriate,
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – September 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 months, 1 week ago
“Stealing and giving odour “ [Twelfth Night]
From my very first whiff of the pipe tobacco I was a sucker for the scent of Balkan Sobranie. Given its name, thirteen-year-old imagination conjured red-jacketed hunters chasing yellow-eyed wolves through night forests. My Dad’s dour, ‘Four Square far cheaper,’ confirmed its blend of leaves — Latakia…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition – August 2023 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Setting a writing prompt then watching the array of exciting interpretations — six in all!! — flood in as they did this month, confirming there are always many times more than one ‘correct’ answer, I consider one of life’s especial pleasures, but I have to say actuality exceeded expectation by some considerable margin – thank you all!
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