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April 5, 2020
AtoZ2020 - E is for Energy - Vampire Drabbles - #AtoZChallenge
AtoZChallenge 2020 - Vampire Drabbles
Greetings fellow bloggers and welcome to the AtoZChallenge and letter E. My theme this year is vampire drabbles. Enjoy
April 3, 2020
AtoZ2020 - D is for Disease - Vampire Drabbles - #AtoZChallenge
AtoZChallenge 2020 - Vampire Drabbles
Good morrow gentle folk and welcome to my blog for day 4 of the AtoZChallenge. I hope you are all safe and well. For those on their first visit - this year my theme is vampire drabbles, which are stories of exactly 100 words. Best wishes to all.
April 2, 2020
AtoZ2020 - C is for Cure - Vampire Drabbles - #AtoZChallenge
AtoZChallenge 2020 - Vampire Drabbles
Greetings fellow AtoZers and other visitors, I hope we are all well for day 3 of this wonderful blog challenge. My word for the vampire drabbles today is 'cure' and this is what popped into my head. I very much hope you like it.C is for Cure
Lawrence sat and watched as the horizon began to lighten, gaining a golden tint.
"Lawrie."
He did not turn, even though he could hear the distress in the voice.
"Come inside, please."
"I can't, Issie," he replied. "I've...
April 1, 2020
AtoZ2020 - B is for Blood & Bat - Vampire Drabbles - #AtoZChallenge
AtoZChallenge 2020 - Vampire Drabbles
Welcome! It is day 2 of the AtoZ challenge, so we are on to B. Now I could not decide on just one word for my vampire drabble today, so I went for 2. I hope you enjoy my choices.
B is for Blood & Bat
"Oh Hugo, what have they done?" Eliza picked up the bat and cradled him to her chest.
He was covered in gore where his left wing was horribly sliced.
Skewering her thumb on one fang, she dripped her blood onto Hugo's wound, and he chattered quietly as the...
March 31, 2020
AtoZ2020 - A is for Attack - Vampire Drabbles - #AtoZChallenge
AtoZChallenge 2020 - Vampire Drabbles
Hello and welcome to my first AtoZ post for 2020. This year I decided to go for a simple theme of vampire drabbles, each one inspired by a vampiric kind of word starting with the letter of the day. I very much hope you enjoy them.
A is for Attack
I am a picky eater. I have specific requirements and it always takes me a long time to decide what to consume.
For the last five minutes I have been watching a middle-aged woman berate an employee because his shop...
March 30, 2020
Tasha's Thinkings 1000th Blog Post
Tasha's Thinkings 1000th Blog Post
So there I was preparing all my AtoZ posts when I realised that the number next to published posts said 999! Of course I had to come up with something special for my 1000th post.
My first through was fiction, so I have a little drabble to share below and I had a little more of a think, and I thought it might be fun to create a little introduction to some of the fun things posted here. In recent years I have tried to organise my tags somewhat, but I have to...
March 21, 2020
Recipe: Fridge Raid Creamy Pasta
Recipe: Fridge Raid Creamy Pasta
So if this crisis has made me do anything (other than worry), it's think about food waste very hard. I've been meaning to do it for ages, but, we all know how it is, good intentions, but never the time. I started easy.
I had milk that was about to go out of date and since it's Cravendale, that usually means it's right at the end of its life because that stuff has expiry dates way longer than normal milk. So I made my own cottage cheese, which is really easy to...
March 15, 2020
AtoZ2020 - Theme Reveal - #AtoZChallenge
AtoZChallenge 2020 Theme Reveal
Hello and welcome to my blog for the AtoZChallenge theme reveal.
Not familiar with the AtoZChallenge. This is a yearly event that happens throughout April. Every day bloggers post a new entry to their blog inspired by a letter of the alphabet, except Sundays which is our day off. If you would like to sign up, pop on over to this post at the AtoZ home page for details.
Some of us going the AtoZ also have themes as well as using the letters of the alphabet.
My theme...
March 14, 2020
100% Off - Short Story Anthology - Half of Everything - #LookForTheJoy
Half of Everything Anthology - 100% OffShort Stories - #Vampires #Fantasy #Dragons #YA #Adult #Horror
So it is bleak out there at the moment, people are self-isolating and worse, and I saw a tweet go past the other day saying 'look for the joy'.
It is all too easy to feel depressed in times like this, but there is still joy in the world. I'm having trouble writing because mostly I'm worried about my Papa, who is in his late 70s and had cancer a few years ago so had to rebuild his immune system...
