#FOWC – Page 4 – Tina Stewart Brakebill

love won

May 7, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

lost in paradise

love rises as the sun sets

our game of chance won

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I have been so so busy that I’ve not been on WP for an age! But this beautiful photo from Eugis Weekly Prompt inspired me and Fandango’s WOD “lottery” put me in a thankful state of mind so here ya go ! Thanks to them both.

Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

An Impromptu Decision

April 14, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

It had been an impromptu decision.

A be in the moment, what could possibly go wrong, you only live once, I’m not THAT old, you’re not the boss of me kind of non-decision decision.

The kind that had ruled (or almost ruined if you asked her) his life until she came along. No. This couldn’t be on him. Surely an alarm would have gone off.

No. Not his fault.

As the water crept closer, he tore his gaze away from the gushing pipe. Put on his game face. She’d be back soon. And this was definitely not his fault.

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Image credit: Anne Higa

Thanks to Fandango’s FOWC wonderful word prompt of IMPROMPTU and Anne Higa’s great photo prompt, I’m back to Rochelle’s Friday Fictioners Challenge after a long absence!

Haiku & Other Poetry, History, tutto e niente

This Instead of That (a haiku tale)

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

A tale to be told?

Once brothers in law but now

eternal neighbors.

Thanks to Linda’s JusJoJan Challenge (neighbor) and to Fandango’s FOWC (instead) for the inspiration for this tale as old as time.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

defying destiny (a tanka)

January 3, 2021 Tina Stewart Brakebill

seeking to avoid

an unchosen destiny

she slips through the gap

like a whisper in the night

a bounded servant no more

I love cemeteries. A recent visit to the historic Oaklawn Cemetery in Tampa inspired thoughts about escaping an unwanted destiny; whether that fate is death or something else is up to the reader to decide.

But, here’s hoping that 2021 offers some respite from 2020.

Thanks also to Linda’s JusJoJan Challenge word (servant) and to Fandango’s FOWC word (avoid) for giving me added fuel for my vague thoughts.

Flash Fiction, Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

quixotic musings

December 7, 2020 Tina Stewart Brakebill

Am I a dreamer?

Still full of hope as I yearn.

Or am I a clown?

Yes, says the face in the glass

with your destiny foretold.

Image courtesy of Forgottenx at DeviantArt

I’m not sure that this piece fits perfectly into any of the challenges that inspired me today. So apologies if I’ve miscategorized things!

All I can say, is that the combination of Fandango’s FOWC (body, which I loosely subbed in “face in the mirror”), Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge photo, and Sammi’s Challenge (to use the word quixotic, which I took as the entire theme) DID inspire me and, thus, this 26-word call and response story / tanka was born. (Side note: I love to throw in a good THUS or THEREFORE or NEVERTHELESS ….)