How was I to know how combustible that the single spark from my fantasy of you would be to me?
(20 words)
Written for Bulbul’s Twenty Word Tuesday prompt, where this week’s word is “fantasy.” Also for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (spark). Image from bookmarks reviews.
Frank, aka PCGuy, has published another one of his Truthful Tuesday posts. This week Frank wants to know…
Have you ever had “real life” mess up your blogging schedule? If so, did it make a permanent change to your schedule, or was it just a temporary interruption?
As a matter of fact, yes. Back in the spring of 2015 a personal matter, the details of which I shall not go into here, reared its ugly head. I was still working at the time and I knew that something had to give in order for me to deal with this urgent personal situation. I decided that I had to step away from blogging, something I’d been doing for ten years without interruption at that point. It was difficult, but necessary, action.
Two years later my blogging hiatus ended. I had retired from my job, the personal situation that caused me to step away from blogging had been resolved, and I resumed blogging with my new blog, “This, That, and the Other.”
“I’m so bummed out,” Beth complained as she sat at a table in the lodge drinking her hot toddy. “How long have we planned this ski trip and look what happens. Seems the only luck we have these days is bad luck.”
“I know, babe,” Aaron said, taking a sip from his Irish coffee mug. “Our timing really sucks. I can’t believe that they closed all of the trails and shut down the lifts just because of a little fog.”
“Well, it’s not just a little fog, sweetie,” Beth said. “It’s like pea soup out there. You can’t see a foot in front of your face. It would be dangerous to try to ski in these conditions.”
“Yeah, I know,” Aaron admitted. “But we spent a bundle on this trip and because of this thick fog that has settled over the entire resort area, we can’t take advantage of the world-class slopes and the majestic views. And who knows when, or even if, we’ll be able to get back here.”
“We’ll just have to make the best of a bad situation,” Beth said, flashing an amorous smile at her fiancé.
Aaron grinned and playfully said, “Well, my dear, do you have anything specific in mind?”
“Why don’t we walk back to our cabin,” Beth said, “We can throw some logs into the fireplace, get comfy, and see if we can figure out a way to, um, lift the fog, if you get my drift.”
“Oh, I get your drift, all right,” Aaron said. He quickly finished his Irish coffee, paid the tab, grabbed Beth’s hand, and said, “You know, I’m starting to feel a whole lot better about being fogged in.”
Written for the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge. Photo credit: Luca Nardone on Pexels.com.
Welcome to March 9, 2021 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today’s word is “spark.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
This, That, and the Other 