#darksummer

Rodney AnonymousRodneyAnonymous@mas.to
2024-08-03

It's radio on the internet - just as Gawd intended!

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#radio
#radioshow
#EBM
#darkwave
#goth
#industrial
#punk
#darksummer

2024-05-28

Bare to the waves slapping against sunburnt thighs, the salt a lick to the flesh, protective lotions stripped away, we were in love with clouds, keening gulls, and endless afternoons, contrails the only sign of someone else’s schedule, the world’s ambitions that would not mark us for years. #50WordFiction #DarkSummer

Photo: Frank McKenna, Unpslash

The sun setting, or rising, over a relatively tranquil ocean with a few waves in the foreground. The sky is almost clear except for a few wispy clouds and there are gulls flying in a line over the water.
2024-05-28

The next word prompt for the #50WordFiction challenge #DarkSummer is "bare." Participants may jump in at any time using the hashtags. A photo prompt is provided if it helps, but it is also ok not to take it into consideration when crafting your 50-word piece. Word prompts are also only suggestions. And the word itself does not have to appear among the 50 words posted. "Dark Summer" can be any kind of dark you chose, not necessarily horror. Enjoy your week.

Photo: Luke Ellis-Craven, Unsplash

A close-up picture of the tide washing up on the beach, the sunrise, or sunset, just outside of the frame. There are clouds over the oceans and waves in the distance.
2024-05-22

Obviously, not all my writing for #50WordFiction #DarkSummer will be thematically "dark." I have to follow my mood. "Mood ring" for today reads blue: "relaxed, at ease, calm, lovable." 😆

2024-05-22

At sunset on the boardwalk beside Miami beach, Altair feeds the tiny, retiring common ground doves from his hand. It had taken him months to get them to trust.

Sitembile rests her head on his shoulder, watching. She had come to understand something deep and reassuring in these ministrations.

Photo: Zolton Tasi, Unsplash

#50WordFiction #DarkSummer

Feel free to join the #50WordFiction challenge for #DarkSummer using the weekly prompt and hashtags. I'd love to "see" you there. 💜 🦋 🌺 🌞

The silhouette of a park bench on a beach at sunset.
2024-05-21

A few weeks ago, I started a prompt-based 50-word fiction challenge I conducted last year. This year, the theme is "Dark Summer." I provide a word and a picture at the beginning of the week, and participants respond during the week with 50-word fiction(s) using the hashtag(s). You may also use your own photo or picture. This week's prompt is "dove." The use of the prompt or the prompt word is not required. #50WordFiction #DarkSummer

Pic: Mourning Dove by Alan Schmierer, flickr, Public Domain

A close-up shot of a mourning dove perched on a branch.
Darren McGuickendmcgk@mastodon.ie
2024-05-13

Early morning heat-baked air above and the water--at this depth?--may as well be cool. Early morning white above and the water--at this depth?--may as well be night. A continuity of life, swarming things, and the background hum of men.

#50WordFiction #DarkSummer

writing.exchange/@MargaretSeft

2024-05-13

#50wordfiction #DarkSummer

She sat on the edge of the dock long after all the others had gone, tracing languid circles in the water with a toe and feeling infinitely and profoundly alone. Thunder rumbled low in the distance as rain made its way across the lake, piercing through the thick Summer air.

2024-05-13

We swam with water moccasins, rippled surfaces with stones, dreamt under blue skied blankets, rocked to wave rhythms slapping undersides of boats like persistent mothers, their concerns a muffled backdrop to bugs, the feel of silt, a blade of grass, a cloud, a song, a taunt, the flesh of fruit. #50WordFiction #DarkSummer

Photo: Lake Ozarks, Missouri State Parks, flickr

A serene lake surrounded by tree-covered banks under a nearly clear blue sky.
2024-05-13

A couple of weeks ago, I restarted a prompt-based 50-word fiction challenge I conducted last year. This year, the theme is "Dark Summer." I provide a word and a picture at the beginning of the week, and if you would like to participate, respond during the week with your 50-word fiction(s) using the hashtag(s). You may also use your own photo or picture. This week's prompt is "lake." Your piece doesn't have to include the prompt word. It could serve as the setting. #50WordFiction #DarkSummer

Public Domain Photo, Missouri State Parks, Lake Ozarks, flickr. A serene lake surrounded by banks of trees. Near clear skies.
2024-05-06

My mind insists on a memory, tenuous and gossamer, of my sister and brother and I playing communion on the Louisiana bayou behind Granny’s house, the body the mud, the water full of silt, our congregation an invisible throng of the hopeful and needy, the broken and vulnerable.

Photo by Gary Todd, flickr, Public Domain

#50WordFiction #DarkSummer

A Louisiana bayou: brackish water and tall cypress dripping with Spanish moss.
2024-05-06

Last week, I restarted a prompt-based 50-word fiction challenge I conducted last year. This year, the theme is "Dark Summer." I provide a word and a picture at the beginning of the week, and if you would like to participate, respond during the week with your own 50-word fiction(s) using the hashtag(s). You may also use your own photo or picture. This week's prompt is "gossamer" -- "very delicate and light" (Cambridge Dictionary). #50WordFiction #DarkSummer

Photo: Kent Pilcher Unsplash

Bright sun shines golden through a field of tall grasses with tiny translucent flowers.
2024-04-30

What did I believe about myself as I buried this box in the shade of Granny’s oak trees when I was just a girl? I couldn’t imagine what I would feel like today—old, frail, bereft of my power, believing the trees whisper something mournful of my fate.
#50WordFiction #DarkSummer Week 1. "Shade"

Photo: Santa Monica Mountains Nat'l Recreation Area, Rocky Oaks. Flickr, Public Domain

A dirt path runs through a forest of large oak trees which cast shadows on the grass below.
geoffreygevaltgg@writing.exchange
2024-04-30

#50wordfiction #shade #darksummer
@cogdog @MargaretSefton

It is raining. Again. Every day since February 3rd. A mist. A downpour. A drizzle. A gusher. Every day, gray wet. Bleak. Dank. Smelly, mossy feet wet. Until earlier today. After 12 weeks, 3 days, the sun appeared. For a moment. Blazing. Bright. Shadows on porch. Shade beneath trees. Miracle.

Photo by Alan Levine (cogdog). Sharp shadows of the sun through a porch railing, looking almost like the keys on a piano against the porch floor.
2024-04-30

I am picking up a prompt writing exercise I started last year: #50WordFiction. At the beginning of the week, I'll offer a photo prompt and a word prompt. The theme is #DarkSummer. If you would like to participate at any point, use the hashtag, and if you would prefer, your own picture. The first prompt word is "shade." Week 1. Photo: Alan Levine, Shadow Ladder, flickr, Public Domain.

A shadow on a painted board walkway.

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