Author Archives: Alice
Candles on Shore
Beautiful moon hidden from the wooded path can not light the way. Shade trees cast midnight shadows. Dark water moving slow like molasses in the night, sluggish and dark where daylight had shown clear but deep. Wading across seems longer now. So easy to be turned around, lost, Until a friend arrives with a candle. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Click on the badge to go to the […]
13 Books
1 Wilderness Girl by Cate Masters About a wild, camping-oriented sexual encounter. I’m still reading this one. It’s an ebook that got caught in my computer melt downs. I quoted too much from it here. 2 Practice makes Perfect by Julie James Lawyers in love. Fun read. I quoted from it here and here. 3 The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross Woman flees just about everyone. Didn’t finish. Seemed like it should by my thing, but wasn’t. 4 Spring Collection […]
Ah Maria, Stuck in the Middle with Who?
In order to save Austria, Queen Maria Theressa entrusted her diplomat, Kaunitz, with a lot of power, even encouraging his partying. Meanwhile she turned her attention to the shambles of her empire. As late as 1754 all of Europe wanted peace. Kaunitz knew that a war would be required to recover Silesia, but not right away. The ground had to be prepared. As long as France was allied with Prussia, attacking the Prussians in Silesia was out of the question. […]
283/365 Quick Shot
I have to remember the camera on the cell phone isn’t as good as my other digital cameras. Not that it’s bad. For a cell phone.
282/365 Thumbs Up
Thumbs up from my new cell phone. It has a camera built in. Only problem is it’s taking me forever to learn how to use it.
281/365 Lots of Stinky Flowers
These flowers grow on a hoya plant, the family hoya. Ages ago, my great grandmother smuggled a start from a two-story hoya plant in a restaurant in Mexico into the US. At the time there was a complete embargo on plants. She did it by putting a sprig of it in her corsage. She gave a start to my grandmother, who gave one to my mother, who gave one to me. Being the kind of casually paranoid individual I am, […]
Association
Play the Association game between now and May 31st, enter your post on the Association Meme page of this site, and I’ll put you in the hat to win a silver ingot. 1. Anyone can play, whether they have been tagged or not. 2. Include the rules and logo in your post. 3. Copy out all the responses that were made before you. 4. Link to each of the people who responded before you. 5. Put in your response. Your […]
Add Diction
Jack: I’m tired of you ragging on me about the drinking. it doesn’t happen all that much, right? So it’s fine. I’m not a drunk. Jill: Whatever. I don’t want to talk about it anymore either. Jack: If someone has an addiction in this house, it’s you. You and this Sudoku thing. Jill: Silly. That isn’t an addiction. It’s addition. Today’s theme is addiction Previously in Jack and Jill: Rolling In The Dough The rules for Photohunt can be found […]
Suzie’s House 161: Fine. Really. Totally Fine.
“Quiet!” Suzie snapped at the boys, one hand covering the receiver on the phone. “It’s Drew.” Gene, Ben, and Lisa stopped arguing over the last slice of pizza and looked to the corner of the kitchen where Suzie had the house line mounted to the wall. She put her back to them and hunched over the phone. “Where are you? Who is that woman talking in the background?”
