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When the pub shuts I beg my mates, Let’s try that new karaoke place eh? Home time, they mutter. They know I’m dreading my empty house. I find that bar by myself. I slur our song to strangers, mangling the lyrics. Baby this can't be the end. We had it all. Missing all the things. Find it once again.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Key Largo, Ticking, Enterprise #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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A basket of adorables.

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At the first raven call I’m outside each day at dawn rain hail or shine with my seed bag but so far the ravens keep ignoring me. I try cawing but they fly off. One time a magpie swooped me I still have a bright blue bruise. I hear the neighbours laughing about me but wait till I have my raven army.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Morning Cloud, Blue Smart, Birdseed #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Pretty sunset, says Mum. Pretty ordinary, says Dad. Pia, says Mum, Can you see any shapes in the clouds? An angel, I say. Bit obvious, says Dad. Well what shapes can you see eh Rod? says Mum. A harpy, says Dad. Mum plucks a tuft of daisies from beside our picnic blanket and sits ripping them apart.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Sky Angel, Humble Mauve, Tuft #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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After the Aurora Borealis tour we reach the hotel shivering despite our thermals and puffer coats. I grab chairs near the fire while Ali goes to the bar. Then he beckons me over. “I think I dropped my wallet in that field.” I look longingly at our Brennivins, then to the barman. “Tekur þú ávísanir?”

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Northern Sky, Signature, Fireside #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Street art.

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My Aunty Linda calls me, all excited about the pics I just emailed her. “You should send them to all the newspapers!” I have to explain that, as a joke, I added the sexy mermaid (blurred for authenticity) to the underwater shots I took on my snorkelling holiday. Boomers really can’t spot Photoshop.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Wiggle, Cousteau, Shutterbug #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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I tell Dan we should decide about the honeymoon quickly, or it’ll be too late to book. I don’t care, he says, as long as there’s a good wifi connection. My heart’s set on Venice but I don’t bother telling him again. It’ll be a surprise. I’m going to run away with a gondolier who kisses me properly.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Tender Kiss, Swift, Gondolier #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Caption competition.

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#booksky

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We were on the edge of the bush beside the Western Highway, hitchhiking to Lexton when the acid took hold. I remember saying, “My backpack’s getting very heavy,” then the sky was full of huge galahs, all swooping and screeching. And a voice was screaming, “We’ll never make it to Rainbow Spirit now!”

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Galah, Cosmic Aura, Shiralee #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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she wears the truth like new glasses missing the blur of old lies #poetry

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I skim the menu and order my one option: baby spinach salad, no aioli. On a diet? my date says. I’m vegan, I say. He smirks and turns to the server. Crab bisque starter, veal for main. Sure, she says, giving me a sympathetic look. Never letting Big Sis set me up again. Even Tinder wasn’t this bad.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: crab Bisque, Young Leaf, Osso Bucco #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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They pester me day and night: How is it that I alone survived the shipwreck? I say I can make no plain account, the night of the storm is so muddled in my head. I’ve taken care to hide my locket filled with sage, a parting gift from Mother as I left London. Such a laic trinket can hang you in Salem.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Atlantic Mystique, Sinful, Antique Sage #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Mummy flinches when I play my classical dub remixes. I didn’t invest in all those music lessons for this trash, she says. I snap, How’s it trashier than Handel? Party jams for the 1%. She purses her lips, snaps shut her violin case and sweeps out. Her car roars away to her job at the Conservatory.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Tinker, Frivolous, Water Music #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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“Wow. When I started an a-cappella prison choir specialising in Springsteen songs, I never dreamt we’d make an album, let alone record Badlands with the Boss. This Grammy’s for everyone who made us Number 1 on both iTunes and Spotify …” I wake up. My cellmate’s snoring louder than a Van Zandt solo.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Bad Lands, Instigate, Choral Singer #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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I see the old amusement park has been demolished. At fifteen I’d sneak in on summer nights with my secret boyfriend. It was already decrepit then, the merry-go-round horses furred with moss. We relinquished virginities in the Ghost Train. Risky, but not as much as daylight reality. I still miss him.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Merry Go Round, Deep Desire, Tropical Moss

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Hell yeah.

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July is the cruelest month for craft-market stallholders. Icy drizzle, foot traffic drying up unlike the mud. I’m rugged up in my camelhair coat. I could just sell on Etsy but my artisanal baby gear still does better here, where mums-to-be can cradle booties in one palm and imagine tiny feet within.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Camel Hide, Artiste, Blue Booties #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Wake up. Think. Whose couch are you on? Did you make any money yesterday? How long before you outstay your welcome/run out of friends/have to hitchhike back to your parents’ house? Could you pretend to be someone else again? Will you ever have a real home? Get up. Make coffee. Make yourself useful.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Anticipation, Calm Day, Nomad #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Today I picked her a bunch of pretty blue flowers from the highway verge then made chicken tikka masala, her favourite. I’m wearing the Astro Boy t-shirt she teased me about when we met. I’m setting the table when she gets home from work. “Surprise! Happy birthday!” She gasps. “How did you get in?”

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Chicory Flower, Astro Zinger, Curry Sauce #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Dad asks for Rootie Tootie. He means Tootie Fruitie, I say. And Bubble ‘O Bill for him, he says. Vanilla, I say. Rootie Tootie’s a Hank Williams song. Also a Monk track. Once we’d argue: country or jazz. We eat our ice cream by the shore. He forgets my name but recalls the ice cream I liked at six.

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Creative writing exercise: use the swatch colour names (words or just concepts if preferred) to write a 300-character microfiction piece. Feel free to share your own pieces below! Today’s words: Sea Note, Rooti Tooti, Buffalo Bill #creativewriting #writingprompts #microfiction

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Yo bestie. Vacay still skibidi. In Bristol to meet some aunt Mom found through 23andMe who lives in a castle. Pic: Me+Mom+Aunty Efa+tapestry of our fam crest with silkworms+beehives. The tea is the bees stung a Viking army to death. No one knows how our dead relatives trained them. So out of pocket.

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