I'm very pleased to have this longer story published by The Writing Disorder. https://writingdisorder.com/doug-jacquier-fiction/
Author: Doug Jacquier
Vault – Disambiguation from Wackypedia (Note: Alternative spelling for ‘volt’)
This piece as written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt of 'vault'. Trigger warning: Silliness lurks here. Vault 1. German pronunciation of Walt 2. Cryptic definition of catacomb (or the smaller version, the kittycomb) (see also megavault – humungous vault and microvault – mother’s handbag) 3. Be promoted beyond your level … Continue reading Vault – Disambiguation from Wackypedia (Note: Alternative spelling for ‘volt’)
There’s a lot to a range
This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'range'. Home, home on the range (if you can call a block in a rural village a ‘range’), where the rabbits try to play merry hell with my attempts to grow vegetables (for us) and my wife’s planting of trees and … Continue reading There’s a lot to a range
Cassandra? Never met ‘er.
This piece of nonsense was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'meter', which recalcitrant Americans persist in believing is a measure of distance, proving that if you give them an inch they'll take 1.6 kilometres. Cassandra, the Greek patron saint of meterology, was blessed with the ability to take the … Continue reading Cassandra? Never met ‘er.
The Sun shines out of Geoffrey’s artichokes
This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'verge'. Explanatory note: In Australia, a suburban garden verge is the strip of land between the footpath (sidewalk, pavement) and the street. Technically this land is owned by the relevant local government authority and some maintain them (e.g. mow the grass) … Continue reading The Sun shines out of Geoffrey’s artichokes
’50 Give or take’ 2022 anthology
My 50-word story, Wild West Romance, made it into this annual anthology. 'The 50-Word Stories of 2022: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads (50 Give or Take Book 2)' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFXD2P8X Just goes to show that you can tighten up when you want to. This began as a 99-word story for the Carrot Ranch Challenge. 🙂
The Eternality of Eternity
And now for something completely different this week; an historical anecdote. This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'eternal'. Arthur Malcolm Stace was born in 1885, brought up by alcoholic parents in poverty that led to stealing bread and milk and searching for scraps of food in bins, … Continue reading The Eternality of Eternity
…. and the nominations include ..
Views on whether a Pushcart Prize nomination is anything to feel good about range from it being meaningless (after all, some 10,000 nominations are made by small publishers annually) to it being an important acknowledgement that at least one publisher has included your work in their best six for the year. It's no surprise that … Continue reading …. and the nominations include ..
A Colonel of truth
This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'play'. It's basically true, allowing for some poetic license and what time does to memories, and I only publish it as a very poor confession for a thoughtless act. In my callow and thoughtless youth, I was a budding and ambitious … Continue reading A Colonel of truth
At the risk of repeating myself
One of the rarest of beasts in the litmag world is those precious sites that allow you to send material that has been published previously so that it might reach a broader audience than the weekly Retired Wheeltappers Annual Report. One such delight is Digging Through The Fat and I thank them for their kind … Continue reading At the risk of repeating myself