Author Archives: Alice
Interpretation
He arrived out of breath, and spoke between gasps. “Hurry! Help. Accident. End of the block. Don’t want… friends see. Brittany! Come on. Before… too late.” He pulled at his mother’s arm. Fearing the worst, she barely took the time to grab her mobile phone. Good thing she held off making the call. His little sister had wet herself. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is […]
13 Days of Christmas?
I’m copying Nessa this week. Last week she posted a word association with the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. Here’s my version. 1. Drummers drumming ~ circle 2. Pipers piping ~ heating system 3. Lords a-leaping ~ hilarious. 4. Ladies dancing ~ minuet 5. Maids a-milking ~ buckets sloshing 6. Swans a-swimming ~ pretty as a picture 7. Geese a-laying ~ Canada 8. Golden rings ~ Olympics 9. Calling birds ~ noisy 10. French hens ~ Oo-la-la! 11. Turtle […]
TTMT: Roadside Attractions
While cruising along on our big trip last summer we passed a bunch of tourist traps ranging from Wall Drug to the Spam Museum. I’m not sure what this one was. It wasn’t quite enough to make us leave the highway. Had we not been in a bit of a hurry, we might have. Would you?
Win a Copy of An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James
For the Duke of Fletcher and Lady Perdita Selby, it was a love match. A quick and smooth courtship in the beautiful city of Paris followed by a grand wedding should have lead to a life in perfect harmony. Were it not for the ideals pounded into Perdita by a domineering and cold hearted mother, this might have actually worked. Alas for the poor duke, Perdita behaved in bed as if she could not stand to lay with him, no […]
Tis the Season
Jack: Jill! Darling! Where are you? It’s getting late and I’m cold. Let’s go home. *Pauses to listen. Hears muttering.* Jack: Jill? Where’d you get to? I swear, you kept saying it was hard to find the perfect tree, but they don’t move! Today’s theme is Hard-To-Find Previously in Jack and Jill: Juicy Writing The rules for Photohunt can be found here. Be sure to visit the home page.
Suzie’s House 191: When She Left
Suzie sat at the kitchen table and flipped through a cookbook. It was one of those put out by the PTA a few years before with the plastic claspy thing holding the pages together and a hodge podge of recipes from a variety of families. Gene sat across the table from her, turning the mug of hot cocoa she’d made for him around and around in grating circles that brought to mind old time mill stones grinding wheat or what […]
Rhythm
In Africa they call them songs. Boom, bedet, bop, boom bedet, bop and play them for special occasions. Bata bata be de They split them into parts and assign the parts to players and become a community Bede, bededed bop through the ritual of sound. Nothing but drums, singing. Here we turn on the radio. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, […]
13 of The Girl’s Songs
I’m participating in Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation’s Musical Hanukkah Celebration with Susan Helene Gottfried this month. Half of all my proceeds from sales of Moving In between November and December this year will be donated to the foundation to bring music to school kids. Considering National Novel Writing Month just ended and I almost dragged The Girl into it, I thought it would be cool to post a list of songs she likes to listen to when she’s writing. Hey, […]
Rabbit! Rabbit!
Happy Holidays! Say Rabbit! Rabbit! in the comments to bring good luck to you and me. Let me know if you have a bunny post today.
My Body Is A
Game Controller that makes it possible for me to dance with the one I love. The keys are worn, the batteries dying but as long as I can hang on we can dance. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
Juicy Writing
Jack: Hey, what’chu writing? Jill: Just my diary. But I haven’t done anything worth writing lately. Jack: I can fix that. Jill: Oh, oh! I know just what to write now. Today’s theme is Written Previously in Jack and Jill: Itch The rules for Photohunt can be found here. Be sure to visit the home page.
