Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
This month’s flashback, The Scream was a work continuing WEP’s art theme for 2021’s flash fiction prompts. Regrettably the WEP hung up its pen this year, I think the admin had become burdensome. This is one of the characters I
Gorg is a troll, and not my invention. Even the quest he is on is not my invention. But as Chuck Wendig gave us the task of completing a story someone else had written the previous week, I chose Rebecca
Hijack! was written in 2014, a 1000 word idea of events that would happen sometime in the Princelings future. The sub-plots were there, but didn’t come out quite how this one develops. The pirates at Castle Roc became supportive of
The Gallery is a bit of balderdash that set Pete, the Swede, and their women off on a wild goose chase across the universe which eventually became The Perihelix. And I wrote it ten years ago! The fact that it’s
Ribbit! was a fantastic prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for a #writephoto in 2022. We’re well past frog mating season in the UK although the weather’s so changeable I expect some places still have frogspawn. But I have blackbirds
Crossing was provided as a prompt last April (2023). I wasn’t inspired by the chicken so much as the word prompt… which reminded me of the short story X Marks the Spot, that in turn gave me book 8 of
Lambent is the title Sue Vincent gave her #writephoto prompt this week in 2020. It refers to the quality of light in the stunning photo she’s chosen. I’m doing some Flashback fiction at present, and this one brought back many
Still was this week’s #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent in 2020. It was my first writephoto; I planned to do one a month, and ended up doing them weekly till my hands went just over a year ago (is it
Plants is the prompt for Sunday. Where should I start? Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot something down for the prompt anywhere, any time, just post it on your blog
Tenacious is the prompt for Friday. As I write this I have no idea what I’m going to do. But Just Jot It January is supposed to be pretty much as it comes to you, so here goes. Just Jot
Treehouse, the prompt from KL Caley for #writephoto, brought me inspiration today, I’m very pleased to say. And my hands felt well enough to type, even after a busy craft fair at Salisbury on Saturday. The steroid injection in my
A geometric hexagonal building in Florence. That was my interpretation of this week’s writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. And that reminded me of Venice, where a couple went searching for something on steps. This is another woman I’d
Before I get to Footprints, which is the #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for the week, I must apologise to anyone who came to Chichester on Saturday hoping to meet me. I had to pull out of the
Ceiling is today’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. My thoughts on this one scattered like autumn leaves, but then when I settled down I decided that it really was an opportunity to visit the artist in action. I
Alley to the Past came out of today’s #writephoto offering from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. I felt like I’d walked down this alley before. After a couple of days, I worked out where it was in my memory, and set