Category: writing
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Sat. 6-Word Story Prompt 143: Fate
Prompt for Week #143 (Jul 5, 2025 – Jul 11, 2025) Fate Lament your fate? Or change it? © 2025, KHR
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I Am The End
In a world full of illusions I walk amongst all the collusion They think I cannot see What they create While they may think That they have fooled me While they may think That they control me In ignorance they can’t see My hand of fate I am a god amongst the minions I stand…
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Memorial Day ’25
To you, they were a soldier. To someone else they are: Father. Son. Brother. Mother. Daughter. Sister. Cousin. Friend. Every soldier is a special someone in somebody’s life. When a warrior falls in defense of their homeland and it’s citizens, we sometimes forget that somewhere a mother just lost a son, a wife just lost…
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No Theme Thursday: 3/13/25
Image by Laura Bennett @ Black Moon Lilith Happy Thursday, ladies and gents. We’re back with yet another edition of NTT. Many thanks to Laura for the featured image. Always greatly appreciated. 😊 Life around GHQ is nuts lately, so I will dispense with the pleasantries and just say if at all possible, please try…
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Thousand Yards (When In Rome)
Thousand yard stare Today Today, I ceased to care The fire burned me This life, it broke me This life rebuilt me In it’s own twisted, Perverted image When in Rome When in Rome When in Rome The lines on my face Each one, a scar A lesson How it truly is How it must…
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NTT Showcase: 2/27/25 Edition
Good day all, and welcome to this week’s Showcase post. Thank you all so much for another week of fantastic responses! Your works are all so absolutely perfect and awesome! Things have been a bit hectic around Gorilla HQ for a bit, so my apologies for delays in commenting and reading. One day it’ll calm…
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Your Venom
Your venom is a sweet wine Intoxicating Mesmerizing And yet The last sip so bitter Crippling Fatal This liquid divine Drips from shiny fangs Love Blood Lust Demise Melded Mixed A cocktail so effervescent But so vile You are the beginning You are the end The silken promise you provide Is but a ruse To…
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Whiskey Truths
A couple pills A whiskey shot Sometimes that’s all I’ve really got To get me through Another day The only torch To light the way I wake again A pounding head Within my heart Impending dread Can’t stand the thought Of losing you Can’t live without My whiskey truth While I do enjoy a bit…
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Inner Mounting Flames
I am the collateral damage Just a stone within your road The punchline to your joke Another beast to bear the load Ignorant and blissful Or so you’d have us think At the Well of Fools you’re kneeling As you take another drink Clearer than a crystal And sharper than a knife You think we…
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No Theme Thursday: 2/27/25
Featured Image by Laura @ Black Moon Lilith Good day, one and all! We’re back with your biweekly dose of NTT! Thanks very much for last round’s awesome submissions. Y’all rocked it as usual! 🤘🤘 If possible, please try to have your posts up by Friday, 03/07/25 to be included in the roundup! Thanks! And,…
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Saturday Six Word Story Prompt (6WSP) #126: 2/22/25
The following is my response to Shweta’s 6WSP for 2/22/25. Check out her blog for this, and other, awesome posts! Prompt for Week #126 (Feb 22, 2025 – Feb 28, 2025) Lost Lost? Or merely finding your way?
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Broken Roads
We have not posted any photo poems for awhile, so it seemed like the time to put another out there. This three-part piece is penned by the lovely and talented Laura Bennett, and once again, I am extremely grateful for the fantastic words she wrote to accompany my pictures. We hope you enjoy it, and…
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NTT Showcase: 2/13/25 Edition
And we are back once again with another installment of NTT Showcase! I hope everyone is having a great day so far, and is ready for some fantastic reading! Once again this week, we are absolutely loaded with awesome submissions. Take a bow, folks! You are all an extremely talented group! On that note, I…
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I Call It Fate
As I look back Upon my life It cuts me deep Just like a knife Decisions Like incisions The blood I gave The blood I’ve lost And never was it Worth the cost A drink in hand Taste of lament I wonder where My spirit went It seems I lost it Long ago It never…
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What Drives Thee
I was here before the beginning And I will be here far beyond the end For countless millennia, I have watched I have studied, and I have pondered Endlessly, I wonder… What drives thee? In the grand scheme of the cosmos You are but a speck of dust What an insect is to you So…
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Retreating To
Cold, uncaring I’ve become I used to once But now I’m numb My heart is blacker Than the night I used to think I’d found the light Now I see That’s not the case I don’t belong I’m out of place A stranger here Without a friend The time it ticks To toll the end…
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NTT Showcase: 1/30/25 Edition
Coming in hot like a HALO team this week with a ton of fantastic posts! Hello, everyone! Back again with another round of NTT Showcase. Being the start of our biweekly runs, there is a ton of great content to share. I am hopeful that this format works out well for all of us! So…
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Justice
The crowd roars. El Matador! Master of the Bulls. But, in a split second… He stumbles. He falls. Gored repeatedly. El Matador is dead. For once, finally… There is justice.
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Beginnings & Endings
I have been here since time immemorial. I have seen beginnings and endings. Births and deaths. Dawn and Twilight. Empires rise, And then they fall. One common thread… Running though the fabric of time. In any day and any age, None do more damage to humankind. Than humankind itself.
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Saturday Six Word Story Prompt (6WSP) #123: 2/1/25: Eliminate
This is my reply for Shweta’s 6WSP for 2/1/25. Check out her blog for this, and other, excellent posts! Prompt for Week #123 (Feb 1, 2025 – Feb 7, 2025) Balance Eliminating you will balance the scales.
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No Theme Thursday: 1/30/25
Featured image by Laura @ Black Moon Lilith Good day and welcome to this week’s edition of NTT! Coming off our one year anniversary extravaganza, it’s time to settle into a slightly new groove. Biweekly with a few less pics and we’ll see how it goes. As things always change and evolve, if this formula…
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Saturday Six Word Story Prompt (6WSP) #120: 01.11.25
This is my entry for Shweta’s 6WSP, 01.11.25 Edition. Check out her blog for this, and other, awesome posts! Prompt for Week #120 (Jan 11, 2025 – Jan 17, 2025) Foolish “Foolish you are to avoid carbohydrates.” Master Yoda has spoken! That’s all for this week. Have a good one, folks!
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No Theme Thursday: 01.09.25
Featured image by Laura @ Black Moon Lilith Welcome to this week’s edition of NTT! Thank you to everyone for all your excellent submissions last week. Fantastic work by all! Please have your entries up by 01/14/25 so that I can round up and post them. Thanks! Here’s this week’s selections. Hope you like ’em!
The Beginning At Last 