It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
It’s exciting to watch Six Sentence Stories branch out; find it’s way to the far reaches of the planet. Makes you wonder how big the world really is, lol.  I love when people who know people who come ’round the Six, stop by and then… someone else sees them, maybe they both go visit that person… here and there, back and forth to each others’ house and well, it’s a massive meet and greet by click (of the mouse). Awesome. Please join us this week. Share a story, poem, excerpt from your latest wip or perhaps an soc. Present it in 6 and only 6 sentences, and link it via the inlinkz (“Click here to enter” below) as we travel the planet’s neighborhood streets.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday through Saturday night late!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers  😀

PROMPT WORD:  FILTER

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“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.” – John Champion Gardner

 

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Party hats donned? What? Didn’t send the invite yet?!  Was a little ahead of myself, eh? Let’s remedy the hat situation immediately. Below, you’ll find this week’s prompt word or “cue” word, if you prefer. (hold on… “cue” might be a good prompt word. what do you guys think?) Every now and again I invite suggestions from writers and readers for a prompt word for a future Six Sentence Story. Suggestions for the SSS immediately following this week’s SSS? Let me know. Doesn’t matter if we’ve used it before, your choice. For now, have fun with this week’s prompt word and I’ll catch you on the flipside.
Today, people. Today is your day. Enjoy.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Return here, link your post Wednesday night through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀

PROMPT WORD:  FILTER

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it . . . Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.” – Bernard Malamud

Dreamscape. It’s a 6.

Highway hotel on overpass, skid marks smear the asphalt, careening corners, exit here. Weary worn, heart torn new day done, head on pillow, dreamscape waiting. Endure the pull, repel the push, landscape of living seeks shoreline of a dream. Tumbled, thrashed by roiling waves, soul seeks solitary skiff, safety on solid ground. Melancholy tempest screams defiance, into your arms, lover’s embrace. Zip line o’er reality’s dross, perfection attained, aerial acrobatics… 

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
I’m, er, puzzled at the goings on within my laptop in the last 48 24 hours. Hey, this is not my beautiful blog! Perhaps little gremlins have infiltrated the inner sanctum?  It has me a tad flummoxed. A new puzzle to solve. But enough about me. What’s going on with you guys? Have you written your 6 yet? Yes? Cool, link up! If you haven’t written your 6 yet, no worries. Hop stays live until just shy of the midnight hour Saturday. New reader? The challenge of Six Sentence Stories is to write a story, poem, excerpt from a wip in exactly 6 sentences. All cake, yes? 😀

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday through Saturday night late!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers  😀

PROMPT WORD:  ZIP

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“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”  – W.H. Auden

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
It’s a new year.  Membership cards renewed. Now what? Exciting question. Scary question. This new year, let’s challenge ourselves to write more, explore our imaginations more, be alert to opportunities for meeting new and different characters. We never really know what they may teach us if we don’t take the time to get to know them. Please accept this first invitation of the year 2021, to write a Six Sentence Story. Let’s go exploring together!

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Return here, link your post Wednesday night through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀

PROMPT WORD:  ZIP

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” – Jules Renard

d=√((x_2-x_1)²+(y_2-y_1)²). It’s a 6.

Two points – how arduous to navigate the distance between them? Voice speaking, staccato, hanging at a precipice eased now by a well controlled damper pedal. You, mathematician, stymied by this most simple of equations, has life taught you nothing. The straight line – the secret lay in the line – the one without deviation, without veering wildly off course? Maestro, per favore – drop the curtain for intermission, there’s been a change in the program; instruments need tuning. Audience hushed, voices whisper off stage, ensemble enters right, enters left – house lights dimmed…

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
How cool is it that Six Sentence Stories opens (officially) on New Year’s Eve?! Way cool. On the precipice of a new year, at the doorstep of… possibility. January 1 represents Day 1 of the “fresh start”. Whether you have your story ready to link tonight or perhaps it’s on a slow simmer, please join us in the last Six Sentence Stories of 2020. 6 sentences exactly – it’s the only ticket you need. Let’s party people, like it’s 1999 😎

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday through Saturday night late!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers  😀

PROMPT WORD:  DISTANCE

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https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=a3325ea8d75a7b860d96“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Vacation, time off, respite… getting away. Stepping outside of the parameters of typical daily life can have benefit aside from the physical. It can proffer opportunity to observe life from an alternate perspective and, if we’re lucky, tap into for… well, whatever comes to mind. And, if that “whatever” comes in the form of a story or poem or another scene from your book or serial story, you have a perfect opportunity to share it here at GirlieOnTheEdge in the next edition of Six Sentence Stories. Return here this coming Wednesday evening to get a jumpstart on Thursday’s Six Sentence Story blog hop and join in the adventure! Have a magical week, read, write, create 🙂

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Return here, link your post Wednesday night through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀

PROMPT WORD:  DISTANCE

“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.” ― Red Haircrow

Event Horizon. It’s a 6.

3rd installment of a serial story, the second installment can be read clicking here. 

*****

Blood stained boots slung over their shoulders, Jaya and Ryan walked the deserted shoreline, toes curling and releasing sand hardened by winter’s grip, footprints effaced by the undulating flood current, it was a much needed respite. Overhead, the gulls’ mews echoed in the blush of the dawning day, the last of the stars retreating to daylight’s embrace.

“Seven!” Come back, boy” – Ryan dared a whistle hoping to get the dog’s attention, now a blur of golden fur 50 yards ahead.

Yesterday, Ryan and I had taken out 20 rabids between us, as Miguel and Anna, the last of our band of survivors to break off from the group, headed north 5 days earlier; we especially missed their help in this last skirmish.

Admittedly, it was a little easier traveling with just Ryan and Seven; although Seven was still a puppy, he was incredibly smart, learned quickly and, as it turned out, could smell a rabid a mile or two out; I had no doubt there was something very special about Seven.

True to most of the zombie apocalypse movie scripts in the before time, rabids were most active during the nighttime hours, disappearing as soon as the sun hit the horizon.

“Hey, Jaya, sun is rising fast, we’d better get going… ”

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
Finally, we’re on the other side of winter! (at least in my mind, lol). The marking of the Winter Solstice is also the beginning of the countdown to Spring as each day reaches 1 minute more towards sunlight. Only a matter of time. Speaking of time.. doors open at 6:00 pm US EST for the newest round of Six Sentence Stories. Use this week’s cue word in a story – fiction or non, a poem or perhaps an excerpt from your latest book, present it in exactly 6 sentences and join in one of the most popular blog hops this side of everywhere 🙂  Read you soon!

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday through Saturday night late!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers  😀

PROMPT WORD:  HORIZON

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“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.” – Cyril Connolly