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Thursday photo prompt – Sanctuary #writephoto

Every Thursday at noon GMT, I publish one of my photos as a writing prompt.  If you know where the photo was taken, please keep it to yourself until the challenge is closed. I usually share something about the place … Continue reading

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Photo prompt round up – Shrine #writephoto

* Counterfeit relic Already mysterious Creating legends No tale has a beginning Just a place on the spiral * The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on Glastonbury Tor as friends gathered there for the Beltane Eve and May … Continue reading

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Sanctuary – Emma Hyde #writephoto

The icy wind swirled around the woods, slashing at Asha’s bare skin like a hundred serrated knives. She pulled her threadbare shawl tighter around her shoulders. It was a clear night, her path moonlit through the creaking trees, but in … Continue reading

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The Immortality Of Rocks – Geoff Le Pard #writephoto

Plinth the Uneven took in the scene. A girl, pebble-young in white, eyes lowered, nervy; a woman, nicely strata’ed, also in white, talking softly. Sodding devotees, that’s what they are, he thought. A novitiate and her minder. She’ll want to … Continue reading

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Old Gods, Old Journeys #writephoto – Jan Malique

They file past, hearts and minds filled with a multitude of wishes, sorrows, and joys. This pilgrimage has remained constant since the time of their ancestors and beyond. The land and its guardians have watched over this sacred site long … Continue reading

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#writephoto flash fiction: Memorial – Jane Dougherty

They dug a grave, long and deep and shored it up with smooth flat stones. They laid a pavement carved with eternal signs, where feet could tread in the cool dark silence of her tomb. They placed her beneath the … Continue reading

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#writephoto: Vader and Valkyrie – Victoria Bruce

Darth? Vader? YES. Mind me asking, I hope you don’t, but WTF? YODA. IS THAT YOU? Anyone else who grammar butchers like me know do you? WHY ARE YOU HERE. Disturbance in the force, I felt. Force laughing, I heard. … Continue reading

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The Wedding of the Millennium #writephoto -The Urban Spaceman

Emperor Kral held out one of his four hands towards she-who-would-one-day-be-Empress, his most beloved child and only daughter, Princess Kiani. The Princess, resplendent in her marriage gown, watched him coolly in her typically womanish way before settling one of her … Continue reading

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The Swan Princesses – Anurag Bakhshi #writephoto

After a long and tiring hike, I stopped for a little breather in a small but beautiful grove. The sun was shining in its full glory, and the chirping of colorful birds of various shapes and sizes soon lulled me … Continue reading

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The Sad Tale of the Swan #writephoto – Isabel Caves

She was once a swan, beautiful and wild. Her feathers were as snow and her eyes as opal. Every morning as she glided along the lake people came to admire her. See the swan, they would sigh, on her bed … Continue reading

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