Where have all the odd ones gone?

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'reserve'. When Alfie Centauri announced that he’d discovered where in the universe all the odd socks that disappeared in the weekly wash ended up, the responses from the public were culturally diverse (which of course was much to the satisfaction of …

Lost Childhood and Journey To The Top

These pieces were written for the Six Story Challenge, with the prompt word of 'lost'. Two pieces this week, one serious, one-light-hearted. Lost childhood The family had stopped by the side of the road to have a picnic and pick wild blackberries that would fill pies and jam jars. The father could reach the highest …

Carried on the wind

This piece was written for the Carrot Ranch weekly challenge, with the prompt words of 'carry on'. Sounds carry on the wind, carry in the wind, sometimes are the wind, deafening the soul. Sand carries on the wind, in the wind and sometimes is the wind, stripping the paint. Tears carry on the wind, in …

Keepsake – Two for one

These two pieces were written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'keepsake', one for serious and one for fun. Alice’s mother and the red brooch Her mother was sorting through her personal possessions when Alice noticed a cheap costume jewellery red brooch, which she thought was seriously at odds with her …

Ess-sense

This piece was written as a response to The Carrot Ranch 99-word challenge, with the prompt of “not everyone fits a prom dress”, from Ellis Delaney's song 'Not everyone fits a prom dress'. Not everyone fits a prom dressNot everyone fits a compressNot everyone spurns a temptressNot everyone earns their distressNot everyone wears a nightdressNot …

Keepsake – Two for one

These two pieces were written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'keepsake', one for serious and one for fun. Alice’s mother and the red brooch Her mother was sorting through her personal possessions when Alice noticed a cheap costume jewellery red brooch, which she thought was seriously at odds with her …

Shock and denial

This piece was written for the weekly Six Sentence challenge, with the prompt word of 'treatment'. Rufus Hornblower, the ‘it’s only the flu’, ‘it’s your sovereign right not to wear a mask’, ‘vaccination’s a plot’ shock jock, was bewildered when he woke up on a hospital trolley in a warehouse, after he’d gone to ER …

Yeti couldn’t prove it

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'video'. Oscar (Monte) Video’s extended interview with The Abominable Snowman, establishing once and for all that not only did he exist but that he was not alone and part of a thriving community, should have been the media sensation of the …

The Delicious Electric Apocalypse

This piece is for the October 2021 Blog Battle, with the prompt word of 'scattered'. My ancestors came from Mexico, where people did not fear us but loved us. They would wait a whole year to eat our fruit. They would smell us coming. We did not stand on the shoulders of giants so much …

Sarah’s Fountain of Youth

This piece was written for the Six Sentence challenge, with the prompt word of 'fountain'. When Sarah N. Dipity had a pond dug in her back garden by two strapping young lads, which her adult children accused her of using as eye-candy, she’d originally planned to fill it with fish and water plants and live …