Category: Writing
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Contemplation 3 – Me Time
Hello and welcome to Contemplation. Firstly I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has participated in this little challenge – not only the wonderful responders (my fellow contemplaters) but also everyone who has joined in and made comments as well. This has been a very open and sharing group of people…
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Contemplation 2 – Success or Failure
Hello and welcome to week 2 of Contemplation, where we answer a prompt from my Kikki.K A Sentence A Day journal. Please join in and tag your post Contemplation and use the title “Contemplation – Week 2” and the badge above, if the mood strikes you. Write something heartfelt, funny, silly, or real – anything that you think of…
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Contemplation 1 – Parental Lessons
Well hello there! Welcome to Contemplation. I’ve created a new writing feature / challenge and I hope that you can join me. Please feel free to use the image above as our badge. Since July 17th, 2015, I have been using the Kikki.K A Sentence a Day Journal. This is a beautiful mindfulness journal which…
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The Final Chapter (Dark Side Thursday)
This is the final chapter to my Dark Side story, still untitled. If you would like to start at the beginning, please first read here and then here and then here. It has been a while since my last instalment but I wrote three different endings on my flight home this week and this is kind…
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Rebecca
Rounding the corner, all I could think about was getting home to a glass of wine and a very hot shower. It had been such a long day and I was tired of dealing with other people’s issues. I was reaching for my phone to check the time, when my foot landed on something hard…
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Voices.
She could hear the voices but couldn’t tell where they were coming from. She tried to listen but the pounding of the blood in her head and the slapping of her bare feet in the puddles on the floor where overwhelming her senses. She debated with herself for a few seconds before deciding to stop…
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Stolen Glances.
I’ve been sleeping with the lights on ’cause the darkness is surrounding you. – Sam Smith, Life Support She stole glances at him every few minutes, maybe even more often. His head was resting against the side of the plane, the part that surrounds the little window. He had received an annoyed huff from the…
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Scene.
Mike crumpled, dropping the phone to the ground. His heart was breaking and his mind was racing all at once. He studied the bedroom – window open, big muddy footprints on the pale carpet intermingled with the blood spatter there and on the bedpost. So much blood. He just knew in his heart that his…
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My Untitled Story.
As most of you know, I’m in the process of selling my home and moving from Brisbane to Melbourne – you can read about that here. Things are progressing quite quickly now and I will write about that all very soon. I’ve been away from blogging while sorting out my place and continuing my full…
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Hotel.
She stood in line in the hotel lobby, waiting to check in. It had been a long day, having left home at 5am and then working all day. Finally, she could see that it would soon be time for her to relax. Taking her room key, she made her way to the elevators, noticing the…
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Overwhelmed but Excited.
I’ve been away for a little while, preparing for my move from Beautiful Brisbane to Magical Melbourne – see my Break in Transmission post. Things have progressed quite a bit since that post. My parents have sold their house – it was on the market for just 7 days and someone snapped it up. They…
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Break in Transmission
Some of you may have noticed that I have been somewhat absent from the land of blogging of late. It breaks my heart a little bit, because it’s always my favourite thing to do – writing posts with photos that I’ve painstakingly captured and edited, reading posts from my wonderful blogging friends and mostly reading…
Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist 