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Category: Writing prompts

She gasped with delight

March 23, 2024 cheryl 4 Comments

And we are at the end! Longish today but all wrapped up. Sophie swung about, heart thumping. An enormous green…

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By the end she was smiling

March 20, 2024 cheryl 3 Comments

Sorry … it was getting too long to wrap up, and too easy for our adventurers, so I’ve thrown them…

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It did not go away

March 18, 2024 cheryl 2 Comments

This story – it did not go away! This might or might not be the penultimate episode … if only…

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Is it my imagination?

March 16, 2024 cheryl 2 Comments

And on we go … is it my imagination or is this going on a bit longer than perhaps it…

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Your life is not unworthy

March 13, 2024 cheryl 3 Comments

Back in the Planning Office … Beefy planning man glowered at his former docile assistant. ‘You’re unworthy to work in…

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He turned his back on her

March 10, 2024 cheryl 3 Comments

When Sophie arrived at the castle, her cousin Janet greeted her. Naturally, Sophie is very curious about what’s going on.…

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But now she tired of the drama

March 4, 2024 cheryl 4 Comments

We’re back to Sophie, who has been fetched by Dragon, and agreed to go when told by Fairy this was…

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She stared at the moonlit ceiling

March 2, 2024 cheryl 4 Comments

More Janet and dragons, forests and planners … I might one day go back and pull them together into a…

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Woman in blue raincoat picture prompt

February 24, 2024 cheryl 2 Comments

Woman in blue raincoat is a new twist on Janet. I didn’t mean to go there, it just happened. As…

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She couldn’t remember things

February 21, 2024 cheryl 2 Comments

Continuing Janet still … I think there’s more to come, although it has rather deteriorated into a bit of nonsense!…

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