This one time in Rome, I watched them film scenes from the new Bond movie Spectre! We stood around watching until people starting talking/yelling at us in Italian, so we went to chow on gelato! From our hotel room, we could hear those fancy car zooming around near the Vatican all night. And in classic … Continue reading Day 5 – One Time in Rome #NoMoExcuses #NaBloPoMo
A tiny knock on the wooden door woke Fae from her slumber. It was time to go to work. She grabbed her wand, coins, and headed out. She greeted the human tooth at the door. “Another one so soon?” The tooth nodded.
Prompt: A woman purchases a cookbook at a charity book sale and discovers a note tucked in the pages. Old Timey Cook Joan Whirly was more than pleased with her purchase. She traced the texture of the cover, embossed. “Mrs Poppycock’s Marvelous Old Timey Recipes” it was called. She’d flipped through it at the church … Continue reading Day 3 – Flash Fiction & Prompt #NoMoExcuses #NaBloPoMo
TLC should do a show called iCloud Hoarders! Virtual space packed with thousands of duck-faced selfies, petrified cat corpses, unwritten novels, volumes of weight loss searches.
Let's get meta! It’s true. I’ve lost of my daily writing habit. I didn't lose it in the the woods or at the summer fair or down the bathroom sink. No, I lost it to life, oh and television (hello, Jon Hamm, who cares about stupid writing or anything else for that matter). Sure, I … Continue reading Day 1 – NoMo Excuses 30-Day Challenge
M is for Mongoose While trying to think of an ‘m’ word to write about, one word kept straining its sinewy neck above the faceless of crowd of moons, mourning, milk, mutt, moms, maps, mumps. It was mongoose. Mongoose. Mongoose. Mongoose. My brain kept screeching. “Brain,” I said, “there is no way I’m going to … Continue reading Mongoose – A to Z Challenge
K is for Kryptonite This post is playing double duty: the A to Z Challenge and the Flash Fiction Challenge. Check it out! It's fun, but on to the main event. K is for Kryptonite Bill Posten could hardly believe his eyes when the first envelope addressed to Mail Away Inc. showed up under the … Continue reading Kryptonite – A to Z Challenge
J is for Jumping Jesus, I've Reached 100 Posts! Six months and 100 posts on Thain in Vain! Not sure if these numbers are impressive in the grand scheme of blog posts, but they are to me! Starting this blog was a way for me to actually write instead of just thinking about writing. I … Continue reading Jumping Jesus – 100 Posts – A to Z Challenge
This post is doing triple duty: 100 Happy Days challenge and H and I - A to Z Challenge! H is for happy as in 100 Happy Days. I is for "Infinite Jest" as in my bookshelf nemesis! Day 33 - Griffin Filling in for Blogging Duties Day 34 - Hawkins Cheezies - A Guilty Pleasure! … Continue reading H&I – 100 Happy Days (33, 34, 35, & 36) & Infinite Jest – A to Z Challenge
D is for Donald disheartened in a cage
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