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Fostering Love

I have been a carer in one capacity or another for most of my adult life. I have been an official foster carer with several agencies in Victoria over the past 26 years. Last year I became a kinship carer again. I had not had any official placements of children for some years although I still have my first ever foster child as part of my family so I was out of touch with current

Grumpy Mummy

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364 days until Christmas...

Groan. Yes I heard you groan. Well I heard me groan. Isn't that a weird word. Groan.

Old English grānian, of Germanic origin; related to German greinen ‘grizzle, whine’, grinsen ‘grin’, also probably to grin.

 

I saw a six pack of fruit buns in the supermarket a week before Christmas.  of course they did not have crosses on them yet so they were not hot cross buns, just fruit buns. 

 

Did

Fostering Love

My trousers are drenched. My t-shirt is covered in splodges of chocolate, snot, blood and other unidentifiable things that may not come out in the wash. My house has a miasma of excrement and I am wondering if I am somewhat insane.

I had finally retired from child care.

I was starting out into my big writing career.

I had definitely sworn off babies forever and ever and ever. I am sure I did.

The time traveler's wife - review

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Why did I wait so long to read this? The Time Traveler's Wife tugged at my emotions and drew me into the convoluted world of its characters. When I closed the book I grieved it ending and my daughter nodded in sympathy before taking the book from me to read.

Audrey Niffenegger - thank you.



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writing prompt 16. Constrained writing - Haiku

 

Another constrained writing prompt, this time with haiku.
     [CW] Tell a dystopian story in haiku form. by JimBobBoBubba in WritingPrompts





Trudge the dusty road





All hope we left behind us





Paradise is lost





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Weary we must toil





Force and pain our daily bread





Heavy hearts don’t sleep





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Tiny blade of grass





Brave between cracks of rubble

Writing prompt 15

                                            
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[WP] “If you don’t stop trying to summon demons in my living room I’m going to smack you.” by Gravitiaxis in WritingPrompts




“Max, if you don’t stop trying to summon demons in my living room I’m going to smack you.”
“And I will dob on you to Dad! You aren’t allowed to hit

Writing prompt 14

 

This was not a writing prompt as such but an attempt at a nonsense poem in the style of 'Jabberwoky'


Reddit has forums of constricted writing [CW] in which participants are constricted by word choice or style.
This is my first attempt at a nonsense poem. 

[CW] Write a short non-sense poem, similar to Lewis Carroll's "The Jabberwocky" by tanglespeck in WritingPrompts




Rontemed amongst

Writing prompt 13

 Something a little devilish for the thirteenth prompt and Friday 13th.  



[WP] Somehow your wedding invitations get into the hands of the seven princes of hell. They show up by Kami_of_Water in WritingPrompts




“This
was supposed to be my perfect day”, the bride howled black runnels into
her imported lace handkerchief. “Did you see what he did?” she slid her
veiled head onto her gloved

Writing prompts 12

Could you give up everything to survive?


[WP]
In the future robots with AI turn on humanity, however, they were
programmed to not ever be able to enter Amish country. For now, Amish
country is the only safe place left on earth. by dalcowboiz in WritingPrompts

 






We
sat on plain wooden benches in a plain wooden hall. The faint smell of
whitewash had many in the group blinking rapidly.