Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. Each Tuesday, at 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.
This week’s monochromatic image depicts a man busking on a subway station platform as a couple of people wait for their train. In the background, a train crossed through the image in a blur of motion.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.
How is everyone doing? Sunday Review is coming at you a day late as I was away in Columbus, Ohio for the Capital City Showdown. If you follow my blog you will know that my daughter plays fastpitch at a very competitive level. You may even recall seeing the Queens of the Diamond series of images that ran weekly last summer or more recently in last week’s Sunday Digest.
I did not take the camera out of its bag this week. I just sat back and watched in awe of these young women playing their butts off over four days.
The girls went 5-2 in the tournament. Not enough to advance to the final but a great showing nonetheless. For her efforts, my baby (she will kill me if she ever reads this) had a great tournament. I didn’t keep track in the first two games but I know she got hits in both games. In the last five games, she was 9-13 at the dish with three doubles and two home runs. The two dingers coming in the middle of a string of six consecutive at-bats with at least a base hit. She was on fire at the hot corner too. Solid defence and a hot bat earned her two Player of the Game honours over the seven.
Although our stay in Columbus was uneventful it was interesting. Not the America I remember but I will leave that for another post I’m working on. What I have realized is I really don’t like long drives anymore. Six and a half hours is way too long. Even with a couple of stops, I was so stiff I didn’t think I was going to be able to pull my @$$ out of my seat when we arrived.
The drive down and back meant my favourite radio stations weren’t available. That had me making use of the free Sirius XM promo I signed up for a couple of months back. (Note to self: Cancel before it goes to full price.) I ended up listening to 1st Wave, the 80’s Alt Rock channel. The classics of my youth. Not everything stands the test of time, but surprisingly a lot of my music is still relevant. In particular, I caught myself crooning (probably a bad word to describe my singing) to Australia’s Midnight Oil when they played it, remembered almost all the words my favourites too. The critically acclaimed Deisel and Dust was the Australian band’s most successful offering. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1988, the year it was released in the United States. Did you know the lead singer (pictured at right) was a prominent politician who served in the Australian parliament? Here are a couple of my favs from Diesel and Dust…
The week in review…
Slipknot Proof that it doesn’t have to be perfect when it’s made with love written by Diana at Writer Ravenclaw.
Friendly Banter Come on guys we can all relate to the twins in this Fandango from This, That and the Other tale. Olivia just doesn’t understand!
Darrell’s Deadly Disposal A disposal dilemma for the creepy Darrell written by Christine at Stine Writing. If you come across him remember it’s a slipknot!
Captive A tale of greed, coverups, and dissenting voices written by Sadje at Keep It Alive.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Each Monday, I will post five random words to Greg’s Blog at 5:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the word prompts. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece, a series of stand-alone projects, or an epic serial. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Here are your prompt words for the week of June 5th, 2023:
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. Each Tuesday, at 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.
This week’s image is a POV shot with the viewer standing in the basket looking up into a brightly coloured orange and yellow hot air balloon. A propane-fueled flame burns along the left edge of the image creating lift while the blue sky background fills the right third of the image.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Each Monday, I will post five random words to Greg’s Blog at 5:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the word prompts. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece, a series of stand-alone projects, or an epic serial. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Here are your prompt words for the week of May 29th, 2023:
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Baseball (and soccer) season is here. Not the pros, I mean for my kids.
Last weekend was spent following my daughter’s ‘Queens of the Diamond, tournament in Brantford. Man has she gotten good. Stellar defence and a beast (I’m sure she’d love the description) at the plate with four homers and a bunch of hits.
She makes me proud as both Team Ontario and Team Canada are scouting her to play for them. I don’t know how she does it. The time she spends practicing while maintaining grades in the high 90s.
Then there is my little guy. He is seven and plays t-ball and soccer. With my excellent guidance, he has the hardest and most accurate throw on the Cubs. Sometimes scarily so, it’s house league t-ball so there are a bunch of kids who have never played, can’t throw and can’t catch. When they are warming up or he’s making a throw to first I’m afraid he might maim one of them. Now if I could just get him to pay attention playing in the field. The dirt and gravel are like a magnet to little boys and girls and at any given moment 4 or 5 of the rugrats are playing in the dirt.
Between various kids sports, I managed to get my herbs planted and take a pile of garbage to the dump. The vegetable garden will have to wait until next week. The damned bushy-tailed rats a.k.a. squirrels have already dug up the parsley to bury nuts or something. They are a menace!
Another podcast listing week but I did find a great relaxation album to play at bed time. It includes the natural sounds of the great Dan Gibson. Gibson was a Canadian Environment Sound Recordist. His Solitudes series of recordings have sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Some contain the pure sounds of nature and others include relaxation music with the sounds of the natural world. A naturalist who turned his passion into a very successful business.
The week in review…
Fine and Dandy Susan at Sillyfrog’s Blog gives us a tale of a grandson who unwittingly ends up in the middle of a row between his grandparents.
How I Almost Skidded Off the Path of Dreams A reflection on how life has an uncanny knack of putting us right where we need to be written by Rockstar Girl at Is It Real or Fantasy.
Elixer A fantastical trip into the world of wolves and magic and wolf by Paula at Light Motifs II.
By the Beach Sadje at Keep It Alive gives us a poem that is a beautiful manual for life.
Was It You? Fandango at This, That and The Other passing gas for our reading amusement!
Green Mountain Gold | Written for Chel Owens Terrible Poetry Contest for May 2023. Still one of my favourite WordPress challenges.
Around the Blogosphere…
Winner of the Terrible Poetry Contest | Lots of cheesy, and I mean that literally as this month’s theme was Vermont Cheddar, poetry hosted by Chel Owens.
Next week…
Five Word Weekly, Four Line Fiction are on tap plus the launch of a new monthly feature. Have a great week everyone,
Vermont Cheddar, how could anything be terrible about that? The terroir and tang of regional cheeses with a great bottle of wine sound delightful. I’m in, who knows maybe too much wine will help with this month’s Terrible Poetry Contest! About that, Chel asks us to write a terrible limerick about this regional cheese. Two months ago I said let them eat cake, now I say let them eat cheese!!! on to the terribleness again…
From Vermont came a cheddar, behold Legend has it, one heck of a mold Big cheese curd not forstall The coming Woodchuck brawl. For a chance to taste Green Mountain gold.
And I’m off to make some nachos with melted cheese (and maybe chili!)
Welcome to another edition of T-Shirt Wisdom Wednesday for May 24th, 2023. This hump day feature is exactly what it sounds like. Every other Wednesday (bi-weekly) I will post a graphic that is funny, poignant, witty, honest, crude, toothsome, with bite, or just plain old ridiculous. Some I’ll have plagiarized directly from a chest near you. Others may not have been spotted in the wild but they probably should be out there.
My wife thinks I made this one specifically for her!
Suggestions are always welcome. If you come across something you think is worthy of being pasted across someone’s chest and paraded around publicly jot it down and send me a message. If it makes the cut I will whip up a graphic design template and use it in a future post. Any suggestions used will include a shout-out and link to your blog on the week it posts.
Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. Each Tuesday, at 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.
This week’s Image comes from King Charles III’s coronation. It is a sea of military officers marching from top left to bottom right all wearing the red tunic and bearskin helmets best known in popular culture as the uniform worn by the Royal (or alternatively King’s) Guard outside Buckingham Palace.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Each Monday, I will post five random words to Greg’s Blog at 5:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the word prompts. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece, a series of stand-alone projects, or an epic serial. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Here are your prompt words for the week of May 22nd, 2023:
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
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