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Blog Tour – Day Three. Story Chat – Short Stories and Ruminations

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This is day three of my blog tour; helping to promote the recently published book, Story Chat Online Literary Conversations: Series of Short Stories and Ruminations.

Read more about the story behind Story Chat Online Literary Conversations here; Day One and Day Two

A quick recap;

Marsha Ingrao has taken the stories from her annual online writing programme, Story Chat, and put them together, along with some of the comments made by the Story Chat participants, to create this fabulous and unique book!

The fun part is often the chatting that happens in the comments. Some readers simply express how much they loved the story. Others delve more deeply. They analyse every detail, pose questions to the author, or offer well-received feedback to the author.

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Territorial – #99WordStories

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Small dark spaces I don’t mind, but all this bumpy movement makes me sweat. I peep through the hole to get an idea of what’s happening. Shadows and chattering. Then quiet and stillness.

After a few moments of shuffling, the door opens. Huge hands reach in and grab me. Unfamiliar smells invade my senses. Strange faces… the same as all the curious faces I’m used to seeing; peering, and laughing at me.

‘Welcome to your new home, Mabel,’ the small one says. She gently lowers me into a cage. A house all to myself. Exactly what a hamster needs!

In response to Charli Mills’ #99WordStory Challenge. August 15, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about the journey home. Who is going home? Or are they in search of a future home or ancestral roots? Think of home as a life lived — adventures, relationships, accumulations. What makes home worth the journey? Go where the prompt leads!

Don’t Judge a Can by its Label – #99WordStories

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Committed to being an attentive daughter-in-law, Maud always made a Black Forest gateaux when Teresa came to dinner.

“No gateaux today, Teresa, because Colm ate the cherries—again!” The two women glared at Colm.  

‘How can I stop him from stealing the cherries, Teresa?’

‘I have a plan,’ Teresa replied.

Next time Teresa was due a visit, thoughts of juicy cherries bursting between his teeth made Colm drool. He caved.

When he lifted the ring of the can and peeled back the lid, the sight and the smell of beef and liver dogfood, put him off cherries for good.

Written for Charli Mills #99WordStory Challenge. July 25, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story based on the phrase “commitment in a can.” What is the commitment and to whom? Describe the can. How does it expand the story? Go where the prompt leads.

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