Joined-up writing …

 ... and. it seemed, of exceptional quality this week, each post requiring several readings before I could be sure (sure-ish) which merited the number one slot. In the end, I decided on John, for his double offering of  'The Lobsterman' which brought much needed sunshine to the greyness of the past few days. As ever, though, I thank you all for posts and for comments, which brings even more cohesion to the site.

Words for the coming week:  bloat  pocket  wonder

Entries by midnight Thursday 3rd June  

new words posted Friday 4th;  winners later in the day

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

Scuppered

Early start no longer necessary since bad weather necessitated the postponement of my husband's treat to himself of a flight in a Tiger Moth. Suffolk to visit family, not seen since October 2019, is still on. As very much was the entertainment from the set of posts from last week's prompts! Deciding who to place in top spot difficult as ever but after reading and re-reading, and attempting to calculate the most apt criteria, I plumped for Terrie's SAS Diaries entry 143, but everyone else very close behind.

 Words for the coming week:  cocktail  fast  tarnish

Entries by midnight Thursday 27th May, new words posted Friday 28th

 Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

Painting with words

A brilliantly vivid set of landscapes this weeks, from  the bleakness of David's apt-named 'Doggerland' to the crab-clawed moonlit illuminating  Terrie's 'contraption' and Perry's exhausting tunnel, but undoubted winner is Jim with his FINAL WORDS, in which the raised platform on which the executioner stands is implicit in his words. 

Words for the coming week:  cutting  hawk  tea

Sorry - just remembered I'll be away from home from early Friday morning, so am re-setting deadline to eight pm Thursday

Entries by midnight Thursday 20th May, new words posted Friday 21st 

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

Madness of English May weather

Today, at seven a.m. the grass was frosty, the sky clear blue. By three this afternoon, sky bruised as an eight-round battered boxer, hailstones and thunder, the drama of it exhilarating.  As was,  of course the reading of this week's responses, begin swiftly and in fine fashion by John whose 'The Lobsterman' takes this week's top accolade. As ever, thank you all. 

Words for the coming week:  audience  crab  waste

Entries by midnight Thursday13th May, new words posted Friday 14th 

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.