Fiction in 50: If at first you don’t Succeed

December 23, 2014December 23, 201413 Comments

I want to do it. I can do it. I ate the bow but I can do it. I buried it in the garden all this time, tell me that you never knew. Nope, I can’t do it…

If at first you don’t succeed, get someone with thumbs to help…

The Bookshelf Gargoyle curates a Fiction in 50 mini-narrative challenge – this month’s prompt is If at first you don’t succeed! Taking a break on the pre-holiday rush, pour yourself something tasty and scribble a bit of short, short fiction: send it in and then go have a peek at the other entries – GargoyleBruce writes wonderful reviews on all sorts of kid lit (big and small) with a cheeky tone guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Wander through the stacks, you are sure to find something you’ll like.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow

December 20, 2014December 20, 201415 Comments

The best time to look
for the light within
is when the world shines
with the bright colour
of the holidays

Illuminate yourself in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow

Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle

December 13, 2014December 13, 201418 Comments

Merry Christmas, Captain Kirk:
Apparently this word has no counterpart in klingon.
perhaps, in their eyes, it is just an annoying absence of darkness…

✩

Catch some light in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle
and just because we’re not the only dot in the universe celebrating this holiday season, have a look at Set Phasers to Twinkle.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges

December 11, 2014December 11, 20142 Comments

where is everyone speeding off to?

≏

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone, but not Forgotten

December 6, 2014December 6, 20141 Comment

some say
that all of life
vibrates in each object
how can we part
when all of history
surges into tired fingertips

⟳

Remember where it went in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone, but not Forgotten.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Abandoned Buildings or Barns

December 4, 2014December 4, 20142 Comments

it broke my heart
when you tore down the past
choosing instead to fence me in
stonewall the truth
shut out the sun
with rusty corrugation
and you wonder why
i shake the bars
and scream
when you ask me to sing
to blue skies

∏

Dare to explore the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Abandoned Buildings or Barns

Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

November 29, 2014November 29, 20148 Comments

imagine
the instant
where cat
water
weather
and time
converge
⧴

Make it all come together in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge.
With thanks to DeWets Wild for changing our mind about this entry…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular

November 22, 2014November 22, 201410 Comments

autumn is gone
⋋

Tilt your head to view the entries
in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors, Door Knobs and Handles

November 20, 2014November 19, 20142 Comments

Thank you for using the artist’s entrance on the right
…’cuz your not allowed in the front door….

⎡⎤

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement

November 15, 2014November 15, 201414 Comments

every day
it’s all about
making something from nothing

✓

See what’s been accomplished in the entries
of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vehicle Details

November 13, 2014November 12, 20145 Comments

History has evidently taught us nothing

⦿

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist

November 8, 2014November 7, 20143 Comments

blank in sofa-size

…

Get down to the basics in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark or Leaves

November 6, 2014November 6, 20142 Comments

but a pale reminder of a colourful past

⇣

Go all natural with the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark or Leaves

Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent

November 1, 20143 Comments

primed to fear
and scared
into assumptions
one man’s hell
is another’s reality

✵

Fall into the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent.

Fiction in 50: The Darker Side of…

October 31, 2014October 31, 20142 Comments

It wasn’t enough that she had tried all manner of sweet: no amount of nice seemed to do the trick. Teeth clenched at every turn, the darker side of a genetic legacy ached to claw its way out. You might want to listen to that voice telling you to run…

The Bookshelf Gargoyle curates a Fiction in 50 mini-narrative challenge – this month’s prompt is The Darker Side of….! Come out of the shadows, see the light and get cracking on writing a piece of short, short fiction: send it in and then go have a peek at the other entries – GargoyleBruce writes wonderful reviews on all sorts of kid lit (big and small) with a cheeky tone guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Wander through the stacks, you are sure to find something you’ll like.

Click on the icon in the sidebar for previous entries…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bare Feet and/or Shoes

October 30, 20146 Comments

some things never change

➥

Take off running with the entries of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bare Feet and/or Shoes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

October 25, 2014October 25, 201421 Comments

I keep telling myself
that maybe it’s an oversight
but that lump
in my throat
tells me
that if you really wanted to
talk to me
you would have found a way
long ago

⦁

Put a spin on the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Green

October 23, 2014October 23, 20141 Comment

Hie thee to the kitchen for the soup won’t make itself

♁

Be refreshed by the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Green

Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction

October 17, 2014October 17, 20143 Comments

$refraction$ do not be so bold
as to question faith
while your feet
are so firmly rooted
in the ground
rather
pierce the universe
by looking outwards
and find
what has been missing

⟪⟫

Perceive the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction in a different light.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors

October 16, 2014October 16, 20144 Comments

they said to leave a light in the window and eventually you would fly home

✽

Be bright for the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy

October 11, 2014October 11, 20142 Comments

i know for a fact
that you remember this day
completely differently
than I
those big holes in your memory
have erased
so much of the good
and left only a sour taste
unconditional love
like the last dregs of coffee
emptied into the dustbin
and
forgotten
☌

Get carried away by the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Soft Pastels

October 9, 2014October 9, 201416 Comments

paper landscapes rise to confront intrepid explorers

✐

Mix all manner of muted colours in the entries of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Soft Pastels

Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs

October 4, 2014October 4, 20144 Comments

closed
nothing left
but a few square feet
on the third floor of a museum
no more celebrities
no more labour disputes
no more long lines
waiting for a taste
of smoked meat and a coke
but perhaps
the straw that broke
the kravitz’ back
was just
that $5.50 super deluxe sundae

♨︎

Read all about it in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime

September 27, 2014September 27, 201410 Comments

on a thursday afternoon
they would wander
white-gloved
a few soda crackers and peppermints
wrapped carefully in a handkerchief
and tucked into pocketbooks
just in case
they would say
and nod agreement
to the happy collusion
spent lingering
by the perfume counter
but Friday
would always come
striding in on too-high heels
gin and tonic fueled
waiting to be dragged
onto the dance floor
cherries in the snow
smeared
on saturday’s collar

‼︎

See what’s lurking in the entries of the Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture

August 8, 2014August 8, 20143 Comments

whisper across the ages
and let me paint your dreams
with a virtual brush

⋮

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Travel Theme: Simplify

August 2, 2014August 2, 2014Leave a comment

sand, sea, sky, sun
simple

∞

Get down to the basics in the entries of
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Simplify.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag

August 1, 2014August 1, 20142 Comments

suspicions were
that lost mail
floated away
to some dun-coloured bin
in the far recesses
of an alternate universe
post office
now we know
it zigzags
straight
to the alleys
to become bright
decoration
for marauders
of all kinds

⋛

Go up and down the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag.

Travel Theme: Meeting Places

July 26, 2014July 25, 20146 Comments

north, south, east, west
coming from
or going to
we are usually on our way
to meet someone
do something
be somewhere
sometime

⨒

Make contact in the entries of Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Meeting Places.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’

July 25, 2014July 25, 201414 Comments

for want of a better place
forged iron kisses green in the heat
and sleeps under a blanket of snow

♡

Embrace the entries in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’.

Travel Theme: Purple

July 19, 2014July 19, 20149 Comments

clematis dream of dark midnight
where stars hushed voyage
is the only sound
to climb towards

‽

Put on a mauve mood with the entries of
Where’s my backpack?’s Travel Theme: Purple.

The best time to look for the light within is when the world shines with the bright colour of the holidays

Merry Christmas, Captain Kirk: Apparently this word has no counterpart in klingon. perhaps, in their eyes, it is just an annoying absence of darkness…

✩

where is everyone speeding off to?

some say that all of life vibrates in each object how can we part when all of history surges into tired fingertips

⟳

it broke my heart when you tore down the past choosing instead to fence me in stonewall the truth shut out the sun with rusty corrugation and you wonder why i shake the bars and scream when you ask me to sing to blue skies

imagine the instant where cat water weather and time converge ⧴

autumn is gone ⋋

Thank you for using the artist’s entrance on the right …’cuz your not allowed in the front door….

every day it’s all about making something from nothing

✓