November Blog Chain – Book Blurb
Yep, it’s the November Blog Chain, and this month’s prompt is to write up a back cover blurb for a book you have written or would like to write. It should be short, sweet, yet give a sense of people and events without totally spoiling the ending. Participants and posts: [...]
Continue reading...October Blog Chain – Halloween Horror Stories
This post is part of the October2011 Blog Chain at Absolute Write. This month’s challenge is to compose a dark story with Lovecraftian words. I may have gone a little overboard with the Lovecraftian words. ++++ As a young man, I was less than I am now, and tempted by [...]
Continue reading...A change of pace.
Virginia Lee, is running AW’s Flash Fiction Carnival the Third. The theme is transformation. Death of a Muse by Cath Smith Rusted leaves float on the surface, bobbing up and down like tiny sail boats on wind-blown waves. I watch them from the front porch, wondering how cold the water [...]
Continue reading...Nighthawks – AW September Blog Chain
This month’s prompt: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words Write a brief response to this picture: Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper. Do they know how lucky they are? Another step towards the light. Any closer and my nose will be pressing against the glass and the blond-haired behatted soda jerk will be shaking his [...]
Continue reading...Horrible housework.
- Posted on February 20, 2012
- in Uncategorized
- by Cath
If you want to place me on a scale of 1 to ‘I hate housework’, you’d better get the telescope out, because I’m floating somewhere the other side of Pluto. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a clean and sanitary house. I do. The trouble is that I do too [...]
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