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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
@sandradavies thanks, I will look that up. I’m a fan of keeping speech tags/descriptions to a minimum and I often write scenes with dialogue first and then build the other stuff around it, so this is very much up my street
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Great competition Sandra, am really intrigued to read the story that inspired it now. Well done Ath, and everyone else, good set of stories
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Athelstone started the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Advent is upon us. I always liked Advent Calenders when I was little, but I haven’t had one for years. So you can make one for me. The theme is “opening a door or window and finding something”. It doesn’t have to involve calendars! Anywhere between 25 and 500 words.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Smashing comp, Sandra and a similarly smashing selection of entries. So I’m really pleased to be picked!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
I dreamt about you last night.
Really? I haven’t thought about you for ages.
Ooh! Harsh.
Aha – Sorry, Jack. That sounded terrible. I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just, well, you know – the kids and all that. I don’t have much time for myself.
How old are they now?
Callum’s ten and Orla will be seven on Saturday. Most of this shopping is…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
“I dreamt about you last night. No, don’t look like that.”
“Like what?”
“Like it’s a line or… like I’m being…?”
“What?”
“I dunno. Overly sentimental.”
“OK. I won’t then.…Well you can’t leave it hanging like that. What was I doing in this dream?”
“That’s the thing. I can’t actually remember. You know what dreams are like.”
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 8 months ago
OK all. Did you miss out on your chance to join the “Things that go bump” writing challenge? Well, just like Brigadoon, we have appeared again – just briefly – to give you one last, brief, opportunity to join your fellow Denizens. To grab the opportunity send me a Direct Message and I’ll tell you what to do. ACT FAST! This offer expires on 1…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 9 months ago
Well done, @seagreen, excellent story.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 9 months ago
Great stuff @seagreen. Super story.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 9 months ago
Red Sun
Sunsets are very different here. Everything is different, but it was the sunset that I was staring at last night. Or rather, the absence of a sunset.
OK. No sunset. Tell you what, there aren’t any asthmatics here on Grissom’s planet either. I’m not blaming anybody; when a 300-mile-wide asteroid drew a bead on Earth at twenty-five miles…[Read more]
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Barny replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Things that go bump 5 years, 9 months agoOh ok then Believer. Justin time 😉
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Clebs replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Things that go bump 5 years, 9 months agoHome
Believer
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Barny replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Things that go bump 5 years, 9 months agoHome, Belieber, Spoon
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 9 months ago
OK – at the risk of badgering people, three and a bit days left to enter “Things that go bump”. Also – 18 members at present, but only 16 sets of choices. If you’re intending to take part, don’t forget!
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 10 months ago
“I don’t care where you’ve been, You ain’t been nowhere till you’ve been in – the Things that go Bump writing challenge.”
Find the group. Join. Enjoy.
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Now there’s a coincidence. Neither am I.
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Nor me! Although I am not good with those pictures!
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I sometimes think a robot would be better at identifying the traffic lights than I am. Hang on, maybe that’s the point…
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Those blasted traffic lights. I’m always relieved to get the fire hydrants. I think I’m becoming a fire hydrant fan.
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Good to mix things up with the occasional bit of fire hydrant. But where’s the other street furniture? Why can’t we identify some litter bins for a change, or bike stands or something?
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Dogs. I want to identify all the dalmatians in a field full of friesan cows.
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I once saw a dalmatian in a field full of daisies.
Re street furniture, it could be the tables and chairs a coffee shop blocks the pavement with in a town near me.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 10 months ago
Excuse the bizarre formatting, this had indents when I wrote it.
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 10 months ago
Sunset
The sun melted into the horizon like a knob of butter in a frying pan and behind it the sky was on fire, it’s flames dancing on the restless sea. Soon, for this was the tropics where sunset and darkness are never far apart, a million stars would come out to play. Frank and his sister, Sarah, sat shoulder to shoulder, their feet half b…[Read more] -
Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp: July 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 10 months ago
Congratulations to all (of us), especially @Janette 🙂
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