Release your inner Roald Dahl — Hollie and Toni, our wonderful editors at Everything Fun, were looking for prompt ideas, so they contacted me because they know I am full of ̶i̶t̶ them. I considered for a minute or two, then thought, why not suggest an ekphrastic response; an exercise to stimulate the storytelling muses which…

At the Cutz & Gutz Salon — I had chosen a lousy day for a haircut! My visit to the hairdresser started okay, apart from tripping over a homeless man who was spread-eagled across the entry to the salon. “Hey! Watcha, you entitled shit!” screamed the grotty fellow. He struggled up on one elbow and grasped my…

Anatomy of Her Acronym — WHO does your acronym say you are? Receptive Artistic Introspective Naughty Eclectic WHAT do you write about? My favourite genres are Fiction, Australian Bush Poetry, and Memoirs. Connecting through humour underpins all my writing endeavours. WHEN did you start writing? When I was very young, I was obsessed with reading, quite often novels that were well above my reading age. At ten years of age, my idea…

Disastrous butterflies, dubious doctors and dripping ding dongs — For this prompt response, we are going to use the word, “hateful” as a synonym for (1) mildly annoying, (2) mildly amusing in a slightly negative way, or (3) mildly offensive to one or other of my senses. And you, dear reader, get to decide what number I would attribute…

See, I was resourceful, even then! — Just to make this clear for you (me), dear reader, Hollie asked us for stories about the vagaries of the English language including the mixing up of words. Clear? Clear! Then along came Krystal and suggested (told) me to put together a little something using rubbishy pictures from my archives…

Living, loving — warts and all! — From a writer’s perspective, there is at least one benefit to being my age; I can show my three stages of womanhood pictorially. Yay! I learned something rather significant when studying the above three pictures— I never, ever liked to wear my hair over my ears! …

What more could a girl want? — “Come on, love — we’re goin’ on a date day!” urged Dan. That was news to me. “What? Where?” I didn’t much care for impromptu outings. “It’s a party for that Oktoberfestering thingy. You know, where they eat barbequed sausage and drink beer and stuff!” Dan scratched his head thoughtfully…

What happens when they meld? — The task at hand is to write five incy wincy, ten-word Halloween stories. Do you see what I did there? Incy-wincy; a creepy Halloween spider. …

In a battle for the perimeter — If you think reading this while the twirling giffy gnome spins is distracting — try writing it! Never mind, Halloween is supposed to take you out of your comfort zone. …