WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!

Hi! I’m glad to see you here. Are you ready to write some poetry?

HERE’S THE CATCH: You can’t use the prompt words! SYNONYMS ONLY!

I hope you will support the other poets with visits to blogs and leaving comments. Sharing each other’s work on social media is always nice too.

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Opportunities for Poets

Dime Show Review publishes fiction, flash fiction, ten-word stories, poetry, and essays, both online and in print. They are looking for literature that suspends doubt, writing that appears of its own accord and tells secrets we never suspected but always knew.

Dime Show Review is published three times a year in print, and online on a rolling basis. They accept submissions from February 1 through November 1 each year, and they respond to most submissions within two to twelve weeks. Authors who don’t receive a response within three months are welcome…

The Opposite of Hew

by Lisa W. Tetting

Genre: Literature & Fiction/Women’s Fiction/Romance/African-American

1.99 at time of posting! Kindle Unlimited!

Kay McQueen is a woman who goes against the grain. She wants no part of love or romance. When her beloved aunt passes away, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. She meets Heath Novack and discovers they have more in common than either of them think. However, when she learns the truth about who he really is, can she forgive his deception or will she realize she has known the truth all along?

This is not your typical romance. Happily Ever After isn’t always what it seems.

What makes a fantasy story? Our first instinct might be to answer ‘magic’ – spells, mythical beasts, potions. Yet fantasy contains multiple key elements. Read the following simple breakdown of elements of the fantasy genre and tips to write magical, fantastical tales:

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The first book in a series of high-action, conspiracy sci-fi thrillers following Agent Cleo Darkrose, a lethal female agent working for a secret organisation who puppeteers the world from the shadows.

MDS train their elite agents at an unclassified installation in the desert. Agent Cleo Darkrose is lethal.

Orders are to neutralise some conspiracy theorist planning a devastating terrorist attack on The Outside. But there’s a catch; this ‘patriot‘ used to be one of theirs and her superior wants his family for safe-keeping.

Between hunting her target and working with a hastily dumped ex-lover, Cleo is running out of time, trying to keep her flawless success record while her shadowy world fragments.

5 Star Amazon Review by YR Lewis

Action immediately graces the first page, drawing you into a story of deceit and misuse of power.
Dangers unravel, and secrets are revealed cautiously leaving you guessing to…

Welcome to Week 120 of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!  Once more, thanks to all of you who contributed to last week’s theme of Wind!  Your response was overwhelming and fantastic!

For this week’s theme, I’m going for something that is wide open (on a good day): Field!  Once again this is a thematic word that can be interpreted in many ways, ranging from the field through which you walk or where you play to a field of studies, and several other directions that you can field however you like!  As always, the important part is that you have fun with this theme, and take the reins off your creative powers to lead you far afield!

I anticipate another array of wonderful entries, and look forward to reading them all!

Here’s a field that is a part of history…

Warfield Ridge

This image is from a trip that my wife…

It’s been a fun but busy summer, both personally and on my blog.   See my Vacation Announcement post for further information.

Feel free to add your floral photo to the comments. This way we can all enjoy everyone’s flowers.

I thought I would try some black and white flowers for a week or so.

Black and white version

Natural color version as I previously posted.

For the Love of Challenges

I’ve gathered a list of challenges and their hosts.  So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog.  Feel free to contact me anytime.  I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.

Qi (energy) hugs

Cee

These Daily Prompts are my attempt to fill the hole left by the now retired Daily Post.

To see them all click here.

I will not be able to review them or comment on them but feel free to join in and use them as an inspiration for your own work. They have been randomly generated by this site so there is a chance they have already been used by the Daily Post.

Want to join in. Publish a new post on your blog interpreting the theme. Create a pingback to this page. These pingbacks have to be approved manually so they may not appear immediately. Then come back, browse the other pingbacks, leave some likes comments and network!

Today’s prompt is:

Trolley

Image from Pixabay

A mother and her two children are at the Youth Fair taking rides. They finish the rides. Afterwards, her kids decided that they are hungry, but for something sweet with sugar. They walk around and spot a person selling cotton candy.

“Can we have cotton candy? Mom, please!” her kids said.

“Okay. Sure!” mom said.

The mother follows her kids to the cotton candy machine. She asked to buy two cotton candies for her two sons. The man who sells them told her that he ran out. The children desperately crying and screaming for cotton candy.

She didn’t know what to do, because her two sons are making a scene in public. She is embarrassed from the whole crowd. She suddenly turns into cotton candy. Her two boys look at her and wanted to eat her.

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no! You’ve got the wrong idea, Brad and…