EMOTIONS ~Three Word Wednesday~

Posted on Feb 7, 2015 by John Yeo | 4 Comments

THREE WORD WEDNESDAY
http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2015/02/3ww-week-no-413.html

DESIRE~SHIVER~WILT
Write something based on and including these three words.

EMOTIONS

by John Yeo

The plane crashed in the icy wastes and we were trapped in the ice fields gripped in the ferocity of a violent storm. We began to shiver, we were confined to the interior shell of the crashed aircraft for shelter. Tempers were frayed and on edge as the situation began to take a relentless hold. Even the strongest personalities among the passengers and crew began to feel the strain and to wilt under the prolonged pressure. There was a distant whirr of the blades of an approaching helicopter. Instantly a ripple of excitement fluttered throughout as everyone became aware that rescue was here. There was a rush to clamber outside as everyone’s desire to get to safety fast surfaced and just one person remained in control. The Captain was the last to leave.

THE BEWITCHED BOWL

Posted on Feb 4, 2015 by John Yeo | 4 Comments

Each week on Tuesday (as time permits), I’ll post a word, a phrase, a picture, or an idea that will constitute a prompt from which to submit a poem, a flash fiction piece (not longer than 250 words), an original photograph, an original artwork, or a combination of these things that you think applies to the week’s theme.

And now for this week’s challenge. Use the following photograph to write a story of 100 to 150 words that ends with

…as the dust settled around the crystal bowl.

https://penntonic.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/crystal-bowl/

Image provided and credited by pen’n’Tonic

THE CRYSTAL BOWL

by John Yeo

It was the wedding of the year. Dinner served on a golden crystal dinner service with solid gold utensils was served in the main hall. The nephews and nieces who acted as pages and bridesmaids were playing with an empty crystal bowl under the long dining table.

There was an uproar among the servants as the guests were leaving, the missing crystal bowl had been noticed by the staff. Morwenna and Esmerelda were with the children and stole the bowl after the children had left. The bowl was to become a golden chalice for the celebration of the order of white witches.

The police were called with no result.

His lordship smiled and said. “The whole service is forged, the originals are safely in store”

Her ladyship however had swapped the fakes for the originals to honour their daughter.

The witches smiled as the dust settled around the crystal bowl.

(150 words)

HEADLINES

Posted on Feb 3, 2015 by John Yeo | Leave a comment

Imagine Part Of Your Body Has A Voice

Decide on a particular part of your body and imagine it has a voice – what do you think it would have to say for itself – humorous or sensible – your foot, your mouth, your ear, your head, etc.

Your piece of writing might include detailed description, facts, names and technical details. Or just Imagine it can tell us about itself and what it feels like to be it.

THE INEVITABLE AGEING PROCESS

by John Yeo

The inevitability of the ageing process.
As the body begins to slow down
The mind continues to function on regardless.

Millions of brain cells communicating
Talking to each other and remonstrating
Generating a hubbub of noisy chatter.

The continuation and maturation
With ongoing natural development,
Brings the added inevitable complication
Of slow diminution and deterioration,
Leading to insidious mental retardation.

As brain cells enter a mode of self destruction.
The process is slow but sure degeneration
Forgetfulness brings further complication.

~
Leading to the hopeless realisation

Although getting old is inevitable

~
Silence can be golden.

Image from the net

Mysterious Island (9)

Posted on Feb 3, 2015 by John Yeo | 23 Comments

I am taking part in Mondays Finish the Story 02/02/2015, which is a challenge that provides a photo prompt and the opening sentence to your story. The rules indicate that the story you come up with must be between 100-150 words.

The link below takes you to Part Eight

Mysterious Island (8)

Image supplied and credited by Monday’s Finish the Story

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (9)

by John Yeo

Diamond Jack had his hideout next to the Rattle Snake river.

Jack a wolf whisperer was famous for his efforts to reintroduce the gray wolf into the wild, 300 miles away in New Hampshire. The Brigadier had recruited him to go on ahead and prepare the way for the assault on the Alaskan laboratory.

Marg and Angelo boarded a small boat and approached the complex by water. A torchlight twinkled as arranged and they landed to find Jack. Grinning he said he had taken out the wolves using knockout drops delivered by darts and they had just one hour to do the job. Angelo and Jack went off to deal with the guards, and lay the explosives leaving Marg to infiltrate the building alone.

Shooting broke out in the grounds. A figure dashed out followed by a large wolf. The firing got closer and Marg took the opportunity to enter the lab. Suddenly there was a mighty explosion!

Some days later……………

(150 words)~to be continued

The link below takes you to Part Eight

https://johnandmargaret1607.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/mysterious-island-8-2/

https://mondaysfinishthestory.wordpress.com

Picture it and Write ~ Space

Posted on Feb 1, 2015 by John Yeo | 1 Comment

This is the latest Picture it and Write prompt from Ermilia’s blog

Picture it & Write

As usual the image is supplied and credited by Ermilia

SPACE

by John Yeo

Lift off and the journey had been perfect so far, trouble free and smooth.
The spaceship was halfway to Mars when the asteroids and space debris started to approach. The captain knew instantly that he would have to take immediate evasive action to avoid a collision.
His second-in-command arrived with a steaming cup of coffee and adjusted the seat cushions. The captain was in full control as he removed his spectacles, closed the book and said; Thanks darling!

Radiant ~ 100 word challenge ~ Velvet Verbosity

Posted on Jan 30, 2015 by John Yeo | 4 Comments

Image from the net

RADIANT

by John Yeo

As predicted the meteor shower arrived exactly on time. They made love in the observatory as the stunning meteor shower arrived from a radiant in a far off universe, exploding brilliantly in the night sky.
Helena was beautiful, desired by many and loved by one, a learned Professor in Astrophysics. They had timed the moment precisely, his seed would meet her egg exactly at the right time. A star child would be conceived as the stunning meteor shower exploded in the sky above the glass observatory.
Leonid was born amid another stunning display of shining stars in the night sky.

100 words on the word “RADIANT” in response to the latest challenge from

http://www.velvetverbosity.com/blog/2015/1/28/100-words-411-the-poetry-of-snow

GENGHIS KHAN~~ THREE WORD WEDNESDAY ~

Posted on Jan 29, 2015 by John Yeo | 6 Comments

THREE WORD WEDNESDAY

http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2015/01/3ww-week-no-412.html

COLD DEPRAVED POWERFUL

Write something based on and including these three words.

GENGHIS KHAN

by John Yeo

Cold, Depraved, and Powerful,

Yes! That would sum him up.

Genghis Khan ruler of the Mongol empire

In the thirteenth century.

Lord of all he surveyed.

A powerful killer, bloodthirsty, fearless,

Responsible for the deaths of millions.

~

As cold as the ice age that preceded

His rise and rise to ruthless power.

Depraved, he had his enemies slaughtered

Yet he loved as often as he rose to power

Fathering hundreds of children.

A chest full of jewels and red, red roses

To court the foreign princesses.

~

Princess Fatima who loved the Khan

Doting on his every whim, survived,

To stay with him always moving

Following the fighting.

Opposites attract as the saying goes.

Warm, Virtuous, and Gentle

She loved her cruel callous

~

Cold, Depraved, Powerful

Genghis Khan

http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2015/01/3ww-week-no-412.html

STASIVALENT ~ Pen’n’Tonic’s Creative Expressions challenge.

Posted on Jan 27, 2015 by John Yeo | 6 Comments

Pen’n’Tonic’s Creative Expressions challenge.

https://penntonic.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/creative-expressions-7-balderdash/

This week I challenge you (and I think it will be a real challenge!) to play the game of Balderdash with me. Have you ever played? The game provides cards, each with five categories. One category is Words. You have to make up a definition for the word. I’ve given you five words from the actual game from which to choose.

Zebub
Stasivalent
Augerino
Zufolo
Carriwitchet

STASIVALENT

by John Yeo

I have chosen stasivalent. This obviously means a state of exact balance. In medieval times it was normal practice to use parts of two words to emphasise one outcome.
Stasis and Equivalent then becomes Stasivalent, which is an exact balance between two elements.

In the play “Merchant of Venice”
Written by William Shakespeare,
Shylock demands his pound of flesh.
He asked for flesh to be placed on one side of the scales
and gold to be placed on the other side.
When both sides were equal they became
a stasivalent.
But!
It had to be a stasivalent, without a drop of blood.
The impossible stasivalent!

Mysterious Island (8)

Posted on Jan 26, 2015 by John Yeo | 18 Comments

I am taking part in Mondays Finish the Story 26/01/2015, which is a challenge that provides a photo prompt and the opening sentence to your story. The rules indicate that the story you come up with must be between 100-150 words.

The link below takes you to Part Seven

Mysterious Island ~ (7) ~

Image supplied and credited by Monday’s Finish the Story

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (8)

by John Yeo

She was unaware that she was being watched.

As she left the helicopter at Junea airport in Alaska, Marg met with Angelo, a member of Don Francisco’s organisation.
Together they would penetrate the remote laboratory where Dr Dickus worked and steal a very valuable formula, then destroy the lab.
Shots rang out, Angelo grinned, and put his foot down hard on the accelerator to get clear of the airport. “It’s OK you were tailed, but we have taken them out!”
Approaching a densely wooded complex containing the lab, Marg was reminded of the yellow Jeep with Alaskan number plates that had been close behind her in the UK.
Angelo was familiar with the terrain and he was to play a key role in the assault from the lake side.
Smiling he asked Marg how she felt about wolves as Dickus was famous for his pet wolf and he was guarded by the rest of the pack.
Then amazingly—-

(150 words)~to be continued

The link below takes you to Part Seven

Mysterious Island ~ (7) ~

https://mondaysfinishthestory.wordpress.com

Picture it and Write ~ Circular Reasoning

Posted on Jan 25, 2015 by John Yeo | 7 Comments

This is the latest Picture it and Write prompt from Ermilia’s blog

https://ermiliablog.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/__picture-it-write-99/

Forest Sculpture by Spencer Byles

As usual the image is supplied and credited by Ermilia

CIRCULAR REASONING

by John Yeo

Tree people arrived on the planet Earth to make contact, travelling through space from beyond the rings of Saturn. Travelling through the dark matter invisible to the human eye, they came through a maze of wormhole tunnels. Circles are very important to the tree people’s culture, as important as the rings running through a tree trunk recording the age of a tree.

Firstly they announced their arrival by crop circles with alien diagrams, laid out on many farms and fields, these went unrecognized and were ridiculed by the inhabitants of Earth.
They recruited weaver birds to weave and construct special rings of tree branches that were then energised with power from the invisible dark matter that surrounds everything in the known universe. Each ring was constructed and linked to another dimension, any person entering a ring would instantly become invisible as they travelled and entered this dimension able to travel through time and space, never to return. Many of the top scientific brains on the planet followed the route through the rings and fears were raised among the top echelons of society for their safety.
Then one fateful day, a human emerged from one of the rings and lived to tell a wondrous tale of life in a far-off paradise. When the danger of evil and violence threatened the alien visitors, they left very quickly. The survivor soon returned with some officials to the woodlands where the alien rings were situated, all he found was a fungal fairy ring of mushrooms.
All trace and evidence of the road to Saturn was lost.

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THREE WORD WEDNESDAY http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2015/02/3ww-week-no-413.html

DESIRE~SHIVER~WILT Write something based on and including these three words.

EMOTIONS

THE CRYSTAL BOWL

It was the wedding of the year. Dinner served on a golden crystal dinner service with solid gold utensils was served in the main hall. The nephews and nieces who acted as pages and bridesmaids were playing with an empty crystal bowl under the long dining table.

The police were called with no result.

His lordship smiled and said. “The whole service is forged, the originals are safely in store”

Her ladyship however had swapped the fakes for the originals to honour their daughter.

The witches smiled as the dust settled around the crystal bowl.

THE INEVITABLE AGEING PROCESS

The inevitability of the ageing process. As the body begins to slow down The mind continues to function on regardless.

Millions of brain cells communicating Talking to each other and remonstrating Generating a hubbub of noisy chatter.

The continuation and maturation With ongoing natural development, Brings the added inevitable complication Of slow diminution and deterioration, Leading to insidious mental retardation.

As brain cells enter a mode of self destruction. The process is slow but sure degeneration Forgetfulness brings further complication.

~ Leading to the hopeless realisation

Although getting old is inevitable

~ Silence can be golden.

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (9)

Diamond Jack had his hideout next to the Rattle Snake river.

Jack a wolf whisperer was famous for his efforts to reintroduce the gray wolf into the wild, 300 miles away in New Hampshire. The Brigadier had recruited him to go on ahead and prepare the way for the assault on the Alaskan laboratory.

Shooting broke out in the grounds. A figure dashed out followed by a large wolf. The firing got closer and Marg took the opportunity to enter the lab. Suddenly there was a mighty explosion!

Some days later……………

SPACE

RADIANT

by John Yeo

THREE WORD WEDNESDAY

COLD DEPRAVED POWERFUL

GENGHIS KHAN

Cold, Depraved, and Powerful,

Yes! That would sum him up.

Genghis Khan ruler of the Mongol empire

In the thirteenth century.

Lord of all he surveyed.

A powerful killer, bloodthirsty, fearless,

Responsible for the deaths of millions.

~

As cold as the ice age that preceded

His rise and rise to ruthless power.

Depraved, he had his enemies slaughtered

Yet he loved as often as he rose to power

Fathering hundreds of children.

A chest full of jewels and red, red roses

To court the foreign princesses.

~

Princess Fatima who loved the Khan

Doting on his every whim, survived,

To stay with him always moving

Following the fighting.

Opposites attract as the saying goes.

Warm, Virtuous, and Gentle

She loved her cruel callous

~

Cold, Depraved, Powerful

Genghis Khan

Pen’n’Tonic’s Creative Expressions challenge.

STASIVALENT

I have chosen stasivalent. This obviously means a state of exact balance. In medieval times it was normal practice to use parts of two words to emphasise one outcome. Stasis and Equivalent then becomes Stasivalent, which is an exact balance between two elements.

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (8)

She was unaware that she was being watched.

CIRCULAR REASONING

THREE WORD WEDNESDAY
http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2015/02/3ww-week-no-413.html

DESIRE~SHIVER~WILT
Write something based on and including these three words.

The inevitability of the ageing process.
As the body begins to slow down
The mind continues to function on regardless.

Millions of brain cells communicating
Talking to each other and remonstrating
Generating a hubbub of noisy chatter.

The continuation and maturation
With ongoing natural development,
Brings the added inevitable complication
Of slow diminution and deterioration,
Leading to insidious mental retardation.

As brain cells enter a mode of self destruction.
The process is slow but sure degeneration
Forgetfulness brings further complication.

~
Leading to the hopeless realisation

~
Silence can be golden.

I have chosen stasivalent. This obviously means a state of exact balance. In medieval times it was normal practice to use parts of two words to emphasise one outcome.
Stasis and Equivalent then becomes Stasivalent, which is an exact balance between two elements.