Carry On Tuesday # 176

This week we return to the works of Christina Rossetti to provide us with inspiration. The chosen work is a very short poem inspired by the onset of Autumn.

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I or you:

Take as much or little of it as you need to come up with a short story or poem, then leave your URL with Misster Linky who is sheltering down below! If you have time, please remember to take a trip around your fellow scribe's sites.

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Carry On Tuesday # 175

This week I've taken as our prompt the title of a song from 1983 by the English New Wave band China Crisis

Wishful thinking...

Use it at the start or within your short story or poem, then leave your URL with Mister Linky.

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Carry On Tuesday # 174

This week we have as our inspiration a line from the novel The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans. It is quite a lengthy line, so just use as little or much of it as you wish. Have fun!

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

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Carry On Tuesday # 173

This week we have as our prompt the first line of a poem by Charlotte Bronte's little sister Emily Jane.

A little while, a little while

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Carry On Tuesday # 172

This week we turn to Aristotle, and have as our prompt the opening of one of his quotes

What is a friend?

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Carry On Tuesday # 171

A day late I'm afraid. Sorry. I had computer problems!

Back to childhood this week with what is probably the most used first line ever.

Once upon a time......

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Carry On Tuesday # 170

This week we have as our prompt a modern translation of the first line of Dante's Inferno

Midway in life's journey....

Use part or all of it within your flash fiction or poem, then leave your URL with Mister Linky.
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