Duplicity

Summer mornings, spine unwilling to support me, knuckles galled but brain bright as ever I dictate my novels from the chaise longue beside the French windows. (Wintertime I transfer to its twin, beside the fireplace.)

‘A cat!’ you cry, occasioning a hiatus in my concentration. Together we watched it stalk and fail to catch its quarry. My next sentence lacks precision.

‘Scrub that,’ (an ugly phrase I learned from you). I watch as you apparently obey, unaware you expect me to die before your perfidy becomes known.

Before this latest book is published. My words. Your name upon the cover.

Horizontal thoughts

 Tip of tongue started at the hollow in my  throat, her warm, topaz-gold tiger’s eyes glinting a promise of more to come. In my head, while rational thought was still possible, I addressed the sanctimonious prick that was my brother, assured him yet again that paid-for variation way out beat the thrice-weekly ennui of the marital bed he, ever-adamant, tried to convince me was superior.

He didn’t know how much his wife liked money. And I doubt he let her do to him what she – tongue marinaded in honey with just a soupçon of paprika – so deliciously did to me.

Prediction Fiction

My first Prediction post was in February 2011.  Overawed by the standard of entries, and feeling more than a bit of a fraud, since I didn’t write in the required genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir, my participation was intermittent.  Did a dozen in 2012, and was thereafter hooked.

The need to tell a story in 100 words, incorporating three prompt words forced me to tighten my prose, make sure each word fully merited its place and sharpened my vocabulary.

I also found I am a serial serialiser - from this grew The Blacksmith’s Wife, and several other serials, the tale necessarily twisting back and forth each week so as to include the prompts.

The other thing is that the majority of participants READ what others write, comment on it.

And as Host I get to choose the best each week.

This weeks words are ‘army’, ‘break’ and ‘blue’ and I’d be delighted if some of you could make it part of your weekly writing routine.

Entries, this week, by no later than Saturday.  Next week I’ll be a bit more organised.

It’s at http://predictionfiction.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/five-minutes-into-job.html