It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday! Link Up!

Posted on by Henrietta Watson

GirlieOnTheEdge's Blog

Hi everybody! Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another week of Six Sentence Stories. Everyone ready? If not, no worries. The link stays open until late next Tuesday night. We always leave the light on for late arrivals 🙂

House rules are simple enough to follow:
Write a story, a poem, whatever/whoever inspires or speaks to you.
Write only 6 sentences, no more, no less.
Use this week’s cue word.
Write in any genre.
Click the frog and start hopping!

CUE WORD:  TRACK

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
– Ray Bradbury

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First Line Friday: April 27th, 2018

Posted on by Henrietta Watson

Mindlovemisery's Menagerie

It is First Line Friday! Welcome and let’s get writing.

Below, I give you the first line, and you all get to write the rest. This prompt alternates with Amanda’s Music Prompts, so make sure to check back next Friday for some musical inspiration.

I’ll provide the first line, you get to write whatever comes afterward. Length, genre, and structure are completely up to you. Feel free to modify the line as you see fit, adding punctuation, quotes, or other bits if so desired. No need to tie it to the picture, unless you want to.

Or for more of a challenge, change nothing. You have a week to write it, enjoy!

Include the first line of course! Tag it Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, First Line Fridays, and short fiction. Create a link (ping-back) to this post and add your link to Mister Linky below.

Your line for this week is:

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April 26: Flash Fiction Challenge

Posted on by Henrietta Watson

Carrot Ranch Literary Community

Nearly the end of April and at last the US Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay has plowed a path through the ice-locked Portage Canal that separates the Keweenaw Peninsula from the mainland of Upper Michigan. One of several Great Lakes ice-breakers, engineers, designed these ships to heave down upon the ice to crack open a path. Ice like panes of flat glass float, bob, and eventually melt, exposing the deep clear water below.

Seagulls claim floating ice slabs, and their raucous cries signal the return of water birds to a place dominated by Lake Superior, greatest of the Great Lakes. On black-tipped white wings, they wheel over my home, announcing spring ice-out in Hancock.

In appreciation of our Coast Guard who brought us spring, at last, take a moment to watch the Cutter Mackinaw plow the shipping channel on Lake Superior last month:

Already, the earliest of those who fish…

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