• Happy Thursday! Want a new story challenge? Well, here you go: Can you tell a story in 20 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: MOLE JAM KIDNEY Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 40 words using the following four words in it somewhere: MURDER CASSETTE TEAR RICE…

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  • A few more customs from around the world to make you chuckle: In the UK, we place our baby teeth under our pillows when we lose them as children. The tooth fairy then leaves us some money. In Greece, the children are said to throw their baby teeth onto the roofs of their houses, then…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    Who would have thought it???

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  • Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and here’s to a good week. Your new limerick challenge is: DRAMA Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word VOTE in it somewhere. You produced some highly entertaining limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: A lesson that I learned by rote: You…

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  • I’m delighted to announce that my new collection of Short Stories, The Storm, is now available to pre-order on kindle. The launch date is 1st November. You can pre-order the book as follows: Amazon UK Amazon US Paperback news will follow soon. The blurb: There’s a clash of thunder and the brilliance of lightning. Huge…

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  • Happy Thursday! Here’s your new story challenge: Can you tell a story in 40 words? You must use the following words somewhere in the story: MURDER CASSETTE TEAR RICE Last week’s prompt was to tell a story in 25 words using the following three words in it somewhere: SPADE OPERA HORSE Here are you entertaining…

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  • Here are a few more amusing laws and customs of old: In July 1981, a poor tortoise was sentenced to death for murder. Tribal elders in a village in Kenya believed the tortoise had caused six deaths by way of magic. The outcome? Not one of the villagers was prepared to risk the tortoise performing…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    A one-day closure or a whole month?!

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  • Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend and this week is a good one. Your new limerick challenge is: VOTE Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word GRAVE in it somewhere. You produced some excellent limericks: Keith Edgar Channing: “Grave news,” said my manservant, Bob “Roberto has…

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  • Last week I revealed the cover of my new short story collection The Storm. Here’s a little bit more about it to tempt you: There’s a clash of thunder and the brilliance of lightning. Huge waves gain momentum, slopping over the side of the boat, threatening to pull Carrie down into the murky depths. Will…

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