Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.
If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.
This week’s song is Someone Like You by Adele and the genre is Romance. This week’s challenge brought to you courtesy of Girish Kumar.
I know, I know. There you were on Friday, waiting for a review, and nothing happened. Disappointment is part of life. Deal with it.
But seriously, I had a nice follow-up post to Wednesday’s math problem all lined up, but it’s a long weekend over here, and the wife was released early from school, and there were DVDs and snuggling under blankets in the freezing weather and good red wine…you get the picture. I’m also taking a short break from reviews. I’m finally making progress with my academic reading with the result that I’m not reading much fiction at present and I want to spread out the reviews I have lined up a little so I don’t run out of them before my reading catches up.
Say what now? (Photo credit: I am marlon)
Yesterday was more of the same and today’s no good either: My dear old mum is turning sixty this week and my sister and her husband have come up for the celebrations. The wife and I are on our way to me mum’s now for an early birthday dinner consisting of ostrich neck and oxtail stew and whatever my sister decided to whip up to complement that. (Have you ever eaten ostrich? It’s yummy. Almost indistinguishable from beef, except that it has almost no fat, thus the few pieces of oxtail in the stew – it runs the risk of being too dry without it.)
Also happening this week is me and the missus’s (man, that’s a lot of s’s) fifth wedding anniversary, but more on that later.
In the meantime, see if you can solve this riddle. After you’ve selected your answer in the poll, click the link to see what I believe is the correct answer.
Oh, and happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s out there. Have a great one.
Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.
If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.
This week’s song is Finite = Alright by David Byrne and the genre is Horror/Thriller. As “=” is a mathematical symbol and not a grammatical one I made the judgment call to drop it in the story, but I bet bumblepuppies (who suggested this week’s song) is going to accuse me of cheating again. I just can’t win.
Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old – when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.
Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power – plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a sexy bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish – to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.– Book description on cover
if all else fails...use a hammer 