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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 5 months ago
Heya lovelies,
Apologies for the day-late decision making. I’ve been oout and aboout with my egg, enjoying our midterm break from work and school, and foolishly saved the reading until the final day of the month because I wanted to take in each piece at the same time, rather than read as submitted, and also to give everyone who could, a chance to…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 5 months ago
Apologies, Knicks, I’m not going to submit anything this month – torn three ways with something that will not knit.
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Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoYeah. Thanks. Still pondering …
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Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 6 months agoInitially, absence of choices left me teetering, unsupported. lacking a direction pointer (as did the lack of a ‘final twist’ in previous years.) But it didn’t take long to seize on an idea (and even less time to feel that a mistake and subsequently suffer an alternative uncertainty of direction) Still ongoing, but that’s the nature of a ch…[Read more]
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Knicks started the topic Monthly Comp – October 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 6 months ago
In the tides of life rage fuels resolution, and patterns emerge from paradoxes, only for all to dissolve into their eternal ebb and flow.
Whatever these words might mean to you, whatever emotions, memories, dreams or ideals they call forth, share it with us in no more than 800 words.
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 6 months ago
🙂 It has been a while, yes. Thank you for your flattering words, Sandra, and for trusting me with the monthly comp baton this turn around. Thank you Richard for the congrats. Well done to all! I thoroughly enjoyed each entry, lots of lovely lines and all the proper, not to mention yummy, writing I’ve missed reading around these here parts…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 6 months ago
@ Richard, glad to hear you were inspired, and hope it becomes a (good) habit. I did try to make sure I’d the time-line correct for Rebecca, but whichever, it worked as far as impact was concerned.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 6 months ago
I should’ve known better than to panic – what I took for drought was silent fermentation which resulted in an uncorking and a fizzing cascade of sparkling wines. Knick’s violently vivid tale of betrayal dangerously intoxicating with an awe-inspiring detonation of language.
Richard B’s continuation of his ‘Whodunnit’ tale and Rebecca’s stoi…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
A Different Time 1 year, 7 months agoSurprise, surprise, this will be another gallon into pint pot exercise; the story I want to tell one I’ve already written – 50000+ words and more – from letters, postcards, photos. meetings (in New Zealand) and anecdotes. But the slant of this challenge requires a different telling and is one I’ll aim to fulfil.
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 7 months ago
**A smol warning for all the darkness most foul; my headspace is aging like fine wine, and therapy is expensive ????**
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There were dreams I slipped into and out of. Through their haze I saw a prince and castle, figments of…[Read more] -
Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 7 months ago
As I well know, Ath, but returning from a week in Orkney to nil activity I thought I’d give everyone a second possibility of inspiration.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 7 months ago
Thank YOU Libby – as ever I look forward to reading your entry.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 7 months ago
UPDATE/ALTERNATIVE TO SEPTMBER COMP.
In view of lack of response so far, I wonder whether Tessa Hadley’s new collection, ‘After the funeral’ might be more inspiring? If so, give it a go – give them both a go if you feel so inspired – you’ve still a couple of weeks.
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Sandra posted an update 1 year, 7 months ago
September monthly competition is up. If you were alive and kicking in the Sixties, even if (shame on you) you don’t usually bother, you might find inspiration here. Each month demonstrates the benefits of stepping outside one’s comfort zone and giving it a go.
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Sandra started the topic Monthly competition, September 2024 in the forum Monthly Competition 1 year, 7 months ago
Each of the dozen short stories in A L Kennedy’s 2009 collection, entitled ‘What becomes,’ attempts to answer the question hauntingly posed by Jimmy Ruffin in 1967. I’d like to know how successfully (or otherwise) your character(s) deal with their particular situation, preferably in no more than 600 words, and no later than midnight on…[Read more]
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