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Continue reading →: The Girl with the Golden Smile – 1Prompt: Rain, Rain, Rain: The Girl with the Golden Smile Thunder rumbled, dark clouds rolled in, large drops of rain drummed the iron sheet roof. Nalia wondered if the creator was starting a band. The drops kept falling in fierce beats on the roof, like a doomsday rhythm. She kept…
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Continue reading →: EA Friday Feature – Prompt Week #3The EA Friday Feature: Write a story of only 1,000 words using the prompt given. Post it on your blog on Fridays and share the posts of fellow bloggers participating in the feature. Participating Bloggers: Nilichoandika Flashes of Vice Children of Destiny Books Love in Nairobi Week #3 Prompt: Rain,…
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Continue reading →: The Changing TidePlaces: Beaches, Mountains, Forests or somewhere else you like…Write a story inspired by the place you like most. The Changing Tide Enya loved her hometown. She’d lived in the same stone ranch house all her life, with her mother and siblings: a nice three bedroom house that she loved to…
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Continue reading →: EA Friday Feature – Prompt Week #2The EA Friday Feature: Write a story of only 1,000 words using the prompt given. Post it on your blog on Fridays and share the posts of fellow bloggers participating in the feature. Participating Bloggers: Nilichoandika Flashes of Vice Children of Destiny Books Love in Nairobi Week #2- Prompt is:…
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Continue reading →: Between Death and Heaven – Book ReviewExciting! This blog now has 100 posts! Apparently, I have had a hundred things to say. I can’t wait to reach 200 posts, but for today, I celebrate the small victories. And the Hundredth Post is….. A Book Review! Between Death and Heaven by Annemarie Musawale What happens after we…
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Continue reading →: A Tail of Tissue PaperA Tail of Tissue Paper Helena adjusted her ponytail, tugging on a wayward braid to set it right. She’d slathered on lipstick today, staring into the mirror, Helena wished she’d chosen the pink instead of the cherry red. Oh well, she shrugged her shoulders and washed her hands in the…
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Continue reading →: E. A. Friday Feature
What is the E.A. Friday Feature? – Write a story in response to the weekly prompt given of only 1,000 words. The story can be a stand alone story. It can also be an ongoing story to which you’ll write chapters every Friday for the feature. You post the story…
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Continue reading →: The Man named BobbyA Man Named Bobby There was a man who lived in a not so distant past. I will call him Bobby. Bobby was born into a poor family, the first of seven siblings. The one his parents put their faith on, that he would bring good fortune to the family.…
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Continue reading →: See Me
See Me Would you see me, If we had the same skin? Would you hear me, If I talked like you? Would you get me, If my ideas were yours too? Would you hold my hand, If I offered to hold yours? Would you dance with me, If I listened…
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