Kizzia🦻🏼Jan 22, 2024
“You can’t leave.” Her Mum sounded so triumphant as she grabbed at Ann’s arm. “Blood is thicker than water.”
“That’s not the full saying.”
“What?”
Ann took advantage of her confusion and fled towards Jen’s car.
“Look it up. I won’t be coming back.”
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Prompt: Family vs Friends
Kizzia🦻🏼Jan 15, 2024
Eileen was appalled by both what her body was getting up to now she no longer inhabited it and the fact she was aware of the situation. Fifty seven years of strict vegetarianism and absolute certainty life ended at death ruined by one zombie bite!
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Prompt: Body vs Soul from Writers’ HQ
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Kizzia🦻🏼Jan 1, 2024

Her old journals (carefully labelled, double stacked, hidden in the top shelf of the wardrobe) mapped her life thus far. The latest, soft green leather with dotted paper, waited on the desk for her to choose a direction & begin penning a new path.

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Prompt: Where We’ve Been vs Where We’re Going from Writers' HQ

Kizzia🦻🏼Dec 18, 2023
They were, they assured each other, doing the right thing. After all, consuming liberal amounts of wine then doing the conga through the entire building was THE office Christmas party tradition. So what if this year the wine labels said Buckfast?
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Prompt: Orthodox vs Liberal
Kizzia🦻🏼Dec 11, 2023
Unity used gossip like a knife, cutting through friendships, partnerships, communities; anything that got in the way of her ambition. Divide and conquer wan’t just a phrase to her. It was her maxim. The rule she lived by. Why she reigned supreme.
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Prompt: Unity vs Division
Kizzia🦻🏼Dec 4, 2023
“We’re pirates!” Ed & Ann yelled as they ran at their cousin, brandishing sticks & waving a black rag with chalk scribbles on it. “Pirates?” Francis’ voice dripped with as much distain as a 9 year old can muster. “How common. I’ll be a privateer.”
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Prompt: Pirate vs Privateer
Kizzia🦻🏼Nov 27, 2023
“It’s my land,” the Baron said as the felling started, “my trees, my right.”
The Land, however, disagreed.
The Baron’s men died from snapped chains & fallen branches. The Baron himself disappeared mid-hunt; only his spooked & bloody horse returned.
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Prompt: Land vs Rights
Kizzia🦻🏼Nov 20, 2023
The greenhouse was stifling but she spent her days there anyway, pruning & watering. How else would her dahlias reach their potential & win her the village fair gold rosette out from under Susan’s ugly & poked-into-everyone-else’s-business nose.
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Prompt: Potential vs Stifling
Kizzia🦻🏼Nov 13, 2023
They say that ignorance is bliss and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Certainly Tim would have had a happier, not to mention longer, life if his little, uh, peccadillo had remained secret. Kelly, on the other hand, was now blissfully happy.
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Prompt: Knowledge vs Ignorance
Kizzia🦻🏼Nov 6, 2023
The photo is old, crumbling at the edges, yet carefully tissue wrapped to keep it safe; Gran, as a young woman, smiling up at the camera with baby Mum in her arms. I take it upstairs, sit with Mum, ignoring my tasks in favour of time better spent.
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Prompt: Saving vs Spending