The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 390 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.
I work on poetry at my other blog,A Full Cup of Tea, and dabble in some short stories and flash fiction here with the FRIDAY FICTIONEERS. Every Friday authors from around the world gather to share their 100 word stories based on the photo prompt hosted by Rochelle Wisoff. We offer support, constructive criticism, and encouragement to each other . Readers are encouraged to comment. My contribution for the week follows the photo prompt below…
PHOTO PROMPT © Douglas M. MacIlroy
Running…running…
A loud roar in the distance causes me to stumble over my feet. Shoving sticky green foliage out of my way only slows down my escape. The jungle is so dark it’s unreal, but the fear I feel is real. As I run from the roaring tremors closing in, I struggle to catch my breath. The monster is closing in…
Woosh…clean air pains my lungs as I break free from the thick, hot jungle onto a cliff’s ledge. Snarling teeth snap below. Do I take a chance?
Another tremendous roar reinforces my jump…
Then I wake up.
— Dreamscape: 100 words–
@JaguarUSA Gustav Holst: The Planets- Mars, the Bringer of War for the most villainous assaults… #GoodToBeBadContest
@JaguarUSA Gustav Holst: The Planets- – Venus, the Bringer of Peace for making amends with allies…. #GoodToBeBadContest
@JaguarUSA For when troubling news arrives Gustav Holst: The Planets- Mercury, the Winged Messenger…. #GoodToBeBadContest
@JaguarUSA Gustav Holst:The Planets– Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity to enjoy the spoils of a villainous plot… #GoodToBeBadContest
@JaguarUSA Gustav Holst :The Planets – Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age for quietly quashing traitors… #GoodToBeBadContest
@JaguarUSA Holst: The Planets- Uranus, the Magician for that first villainous step in a new plot… #GoodToBeBadContest
@JaguarUSA Holst: The Planets- Neptune, The Mystic when plotting villainous deeds… #GoodToBeBadContest
English: From Mal Corvus Witchcraft & Folklore artefact private collection owned by Malcolm Lidbury (aka Pink Pasty) Witchcraft Tools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39NzdEVyfY8 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.” – The Scorpio Races, author Maggie Stiefvater
I hope it will be my name called.
It’s not. The new cleric calls no girl to the altar.
There will be no appeasing Sco.
So, it will be all, who die today.
—33 words—
The prompt is the quote from Maggie Stiefvater’s The Scopio Races. I’ve included it at the beginning so you can read it as part of the whole story.
The Scorpio Races, author Maggie Stiefvater writes, “It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.” Give us the next thirty-three words of this story, as you imagine it. Take it wherever you like, but make it original and make it 33 words exactly.
nightmare of daytime 