Succinctly Yours - December 9 (Welcome Home)

Word of the Week – jubilant

How low can you go, says Grandma of Grandma's Goulash?

Using the photo as inspiration, write a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. Incorporate the word of the week if you can.

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It may be the season of joy, but there is nothing so jubilant as a dog greeting his beloved owner after a lengthy absence.
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But, Dad!! I'm only going one way!!!

Mariner Dreams - TGIBBF #40

My intermittent appearance is in response for this week's call for Book Blurb Friday by Lisa Ricard Claro. She generously hosts this meme to help us squeeze our creative juices and let others imbibe. Share a glass with me, please.

Jared had dreamed of the sea since he was young, since he read stories like Swiss Family Robinson, Moby Dick and Mutiny on the Bounty. Despite the dangers that ensued in each story, there was an inescapable romance about each of them. It drew him like a magnet draws iron. He knew it was his destiny. He wasn’t sure how. He just knew. So, when the opportunity appeared to join with a group of travelers to Boston, he knew this was HIS ride; the way for him to fulfill his destiny. It was time to go. It was time to do what he was meant to do and let the gods of fate lead the way.

Grandma's Goulash - November 7

The word of the week is repugnant. 

The host is Grandma’s Goulash. 

The goal is a story of 140 characters or less related to the story, hopefully using the word of the week.

Down to just two contestants, the annual Dance of the Wild Vines contest shows yet again that women can hold their wine far better than men.

TGIBBF #36 - Bone-Chilling Basements and Supernatural Cellars

Lisa Ricard Claro's assignment - Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book.


Our book cover image provided by Lisa's daughter, Christina.

My belated effort to fulfill this assignment follows:

Are you a fan of the paranormal? Do you watch today’s paranormal television series (there are several) hoping to see proof of life beyond the physical world?

Join us as we take you on a tour of the paranormal; to explore the dark basements where the unexplained has not only been experienced, but has also been documented. Skeptics are welcome to join us – even if you still don’t believe, we’re sure you’ll enjoy the tour which will include visual documentation, Web sites where auditory evidence is posted, and the researched histories of each location which may explain the phenomena encountered.

We will tell you about locations and cities that offer public ghost tours. Plus, we have information on paranormal research groups who offer occasional “ghost hunting” opportunities to those who are interested. Feed your paranormal addiction today!

Succinctly Yours - October 31 (Late)

Grandma's Goulash says "How low can you go?"

We are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. Unfortunately, I used 149 characters. But, if you're interested in joining us, just Click For Details.

Calabasa and Melón talked about what El Día de los Muertos had become. No longer just gifts and prayers for the dead; an eerie festival was underway.

Succinctly Yours August 15 - Time for an Intervention

Succinctly Yours is hosted by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. She presents us with a photo and we are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. The vast majority of us use the 140 character option.

If we want more of a challenge? Then we can use the word of the week in our stories. This is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?

She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her having seen the picture. That makes it more fun for everyone. I hope you enjoy the results. Join us if you want. We'd love to have more to read!

Photo for Monday, August 8

Word Of The Week:  frantic

Gepetto was frantic when he saw Pinocchio unconscious in the chair. He told him the stripper was dangerous, but he just wouldn’t listen.

Parade Dress - Succinctly Yours August 8

Succinctly Yours is hosted by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. She presents us with a photo and we are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. The vast majority of us use the 140 character option.

If we want more of a challenge? Then we can use the word of the week in our stories. This is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?

She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her having seen the picture. That makes it more fun for everyone. I hope you enjoy the results. Join us if you want. We'd love to have more to read!

Photo for Monday, August 8

Word Of The Week:  oblivious 

Reed was totally oblivious when Carol told him to wear something that would complement her hoop skirt as they walked the parade route.

Cold, Hard Reality - TGIBBF #23 August 5

Every week, Lisa Ricard Claro hosts Book Blurb Friday for those of us interested in writing a potential book cover blurb for whatever photo gets chosen for that week. 

Here is our "book cover" for next week's Book Blurb Friday #23, provided by Kathy Matthews. I stumbled over this one this last week (part of why I'm three days late!) I had a bit of an idea when I first saw it, but it just wouldn't develop for me until today. I hope I can get my other writing challenge done today when it's due instead of being three days late on that as well! LOL

Another rain without the gutter repair promised by complex management. Tenants were responsible for the small garden areas at their entrances, but not building repairs. The hole being created by the rain water was getting bigger with each rainfall.

Mike was just about to call management again when he noticed it. He wasn’t sure what he was seeing, but he knew it didn’t belong. Using the umbrella to block the water, he reached down into the puddle and froze. Running his fingers along the item, he could feel the outline of a gun. He knew this was no toy. He also knew, because of the news, that there had been a shooting a few blocks away last night.

Mike didn’t like the idea that that someone in the complex might be the shooter, but he liked even less that they’d chosen his front door to dispose of the weapon.

Succinctly Yours, August 1 - Iguana Prima Donna

Succinctly Yours is hosted by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. She presents us with a photo and we are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. The vast majority of us use the 140 character option.

If we want more of a challenge? Then we can use the word of the week in our stories. This is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?

She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her having seen the picture. That makes it more fun for everyone. I hope you enjoy the results. Join us if you want. We'd love to have more to read!

Photo for Monday, August 1st.

Word Of The Week: proliferate 

Pet pampering already proliferates, but when the Vanderhofs built a Jacuzzi just for their iguana, we all knew it had gone too far!!

TGIBBF, July 29 - Through the Peephole

Every week, Lisa Ricard Claro provides us with a photo that represents a book jacket of an imaginary book. We are to write the cover blurb for this book that will prove so interesting to potential buyers that they will clamber to buy the book.

Here is our "book cover" for next week's Book Blurb Friday #22, provided by Lisa's daughter, Christina.

The first time Rob saw her, it was through the peephole of his front door. What struck him was her electric blue eyes and blonde hair. He had answered a knock and, out of habit, looked out before opening it. She appeared to be looking in to see who was coming. He had no idea who she was. He still didn’t because he forgot to ask her before she left. But, he did know she was staying in Apt. 5E. She had used his phone to call the super in order to be let in.

The next day, another knock at his door, Rob looked through the peephole, hoping it was the mystery woman. Instead of blue eyes, he now saw blue uniforms. The police! They asked if he knew who lived in 5E. The male tenant had been found dead and the woman was now missing.

Succinctly Yours for July 25 - Master Carpenter

Succinctly Yours is hosted by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. She presents us with a photo and we are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. The vast majority of us use the 140 character option.

If we want more of a challenge? Then we can use the word of the week in our stories. This is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?

She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her having seen the picture. That makes it more fun for everyone. 

I hope you enjoy the results. Join us if you want. We'd love to have more to read!

Photo for Monday, July 25th.
 

Word Of The Week: arbitrary 

To his wife, the array of tools seemed so arbitrary. But to Jonas, they represented the fulfillment of a dream that honored his grandfather’s legacy.

TGIBBF Book Blurb Friday, July 22 - Stone Angel

As always, Lisa Ricard Claro hosts Book Blurb Friday in which we are to do the following:

Write a book jacket blurb (150 words or less) so enticing that potential readers would feel compelled to buy the book.

This week our "book cover" for Book Blurb Friday #21 has been provided by Sioux Roslawski. 

If you want to join us, please feel free to share your creativity. What story do you see in this potential book cover?

Andy Stone laid the flower by her grave. He missed her so much these days. She was always able to see him through the difficult times, to help him see the light at the end of the long, dark tunnel. She knew how to comfort him. But, ever since that fateful day in March, he felt so alone and helpless. How would he go on? No one knew him like she did. “Why did you leave me, Terri? What am I going to do?”

The voice came softly, gently, almost whispering: “You’ll be fine, Cuddlebug. Remember my words always. They were true then, they’re true now.”

No one called him Cuddlebug but Terri. He had to be imagining it. “Remember, Cuds. The strength is within you.” Andy looked all around him. All could see was a stone statue of a woman. A woman who looked amazingly likeTerri. Like Terri Stone.

Kyle & Lisa - Succinctly Yours, July 18

Well, I'm late, but had a heck of a day yesterday, so wasn't able to pop this one off until just now (8:25 Tuesday morning). I hope you enjoy it.

Succinctly Yours is hosted by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. She presents us with a photo and we are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. The vast majority of us use the 140 character option.

If we want more of a challenge? Then we can use the word of the week in our stories. This is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?

She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her having seen the picture. That makes it more fun for everyone. I hope you enjoy the results. Join us if you want. We'd love to have more to read!

Photo for Monday, July 18th:

Word Of The Week:

obscure 

Kyle had shared Lisa’s desire to vacation in the Catskills, but their natural beauty was being obscured by her insistence that she’d seen Sasquatch.

A colorful ride home - Succinctly Yours July 11

Succinctly Yours is hosted by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. She presents us with a photo and we are to use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more. The vast majority of us use the 140 character option.

If we want more of a challenge? Then we can use the word of the week in our stories. This is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?

She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her having seen the picture. That makes it more fun for everyone. I hope you enjoy the results. Join us if you want. We'd love to have more to read!

Photo for Monday, July 11th.

Word Of The Week:
renegade 

The renegade in Rachel didn't appear when it came time to wash off the colors she'd painted head to toe. It was going to be a long ride home if she didn’t come clean.

What's the buzz? Succinctly Yours July 4.

How does Grandma of Grandma's Goulash come up with the weekly word?
She doesn’t. She asks her daughter for a word without her seeing the picture. That makes it more interesting and challenging.

Photo for Monday, July 4th. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday (if you're here in the US or Canada).

Word Of The Week: 
expedient

It would be much more expedient to just be a fly on the wall (in a house without cats, of course). I hate not knowing what’s going on.

Week 14 - Succinctly Yours by Grandma's Goulash

Join us in our challenge! Use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words. It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more.

Want more challenge? Use the word of the week in your story. This part is optional.

How does Grandma come up with the weekly word?
She doesn’t. She asks her daughter, who hasn’t seen the picture, for a word. That makes it even more of a challenge for us.

The photo for Monday, June 27th.

Word Of The Week: 
tribute

It’s hard to imagine today’s traffic being re-routed to allow hundreds to march in tribute to recent civil rights gains.

Self-assurance - Succinctly Yours, June 20

Every Monday, we are to post a very brief story based on a picture given to us by Grandma of Grandma's Goulash. With it we are given a keyword that we are challenged to include in our bit of microfiction.

And here’s the picture we were given for Monday, June 20th.

And, the Word Of The Week: fabricate. I hope you enjoy my efforts.

My dear fellow, there is no fabrication of the truth that can escape my notice. This case is all but solved now that it is in my hands.

Lavender - Succinctly Yours June 13

This week's Succinctly Yours - this is the pic Grandma of Grandma's Goulash provided for Monday, June 13th. Each week we are given a different photo from which to create a "story" of 140 characters or less.

Word Of The Week: 
lavender

As the geese looked out over the majestic blue waters, they were totally oblivious to the fields of blooming lavender behind them.

Succinctly Yours for May 30 - Mama

Grandma of Grandma's Goulash provides a new photo prompt each week for us to tell a story that we see within it in 140 characters or less (or 140 words if need be). She also gives us a "word of the week" to attempt to work into the story. Join me now for the story I discovered in this photo.

Word of the Week – glisten

Paolo stared at her walking along the glistening street’s divider. Could it really be? He hadn’t seen her since he was a child. “É a mama!” 

Succinctly Yours for May 23 - I'm late, but so is Isaac.

Succinctly Yours for May 23 http://grandmas-goulash.info/tag/succinctly-yours/

Word of the Week – kink

Isaac’s romantic overtures had put a kink in Rebecca’s plans. Should she accept his proposal or tell him of Jacob’s invitation to the ball?