Monday, February 24, 2025

TUESDAY TALES - Perfect


 


Welcome to Tuesday Tales! This week our writers are creating stories to the word prompt "perfect". Read all the stories, which are from a variety of genres. Please leave comments. Thanks for stopping by. 

JEAN JOACHIM (Small Town Romance)

He would have remembered such a pretty name. 


TRICIA  ANDERSEN (Sci Fi) 

There was no point to get a tardy on her employment record when she was hauled away to Area 51. Or worse, the looney bin.


SUSANNE MATTHEWS (Romance Suspense)

To paraphrase Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, there was no crying in police work.

TRISHA FAYE (Historical Fiction)

“Are you up for more hours spent in a chair stitching?”

Monday, February 17, 2025

Tuesday Tales - Slow

 

Welcome to the Tuesday Tales! Each week, authors write story snippets to word prompts. Our word for this week is "slow”.

Please stop by and check out each snippet for all the Tuesday Tales authors. Happy reading!


JILLIAN CHANTAL - Contemporary/Fantasy

“Let’s just agree to disagree.”  


TRICIA ANDERSEN - Sci-Fi

That didn’t mean she wanted him in the bathroom with her to ask more questions.


FLOSSIE BENTON ROGERS - Cozy Mystery

It was burning a hole in my pocket, and I wanted to look at it. 


SUSANNE MATTHEWS - Romance Suspense

“You’re going to use her to bait a trap?”


TRISHA FAYE - Historical Fiction

“Mother? How come all of these quilts are so plain?”

Monday, February 10, 2025

Tuesday Tales - From the word 'heart'


 

Welcome to Tuesday Tales! Each week, authors write story snippets to word prompts. Our word for this week is "heart." An appropriate word choice for a week that has Valentine’s Day in it!

Click on the name of each author to go to her blog and read the free story. Make sure to visit all the authors.

Thanks for your support!


Flossie Benton Rogers (Cozy Mystery)

Next thing I knew, an icy zap pierced the base of my neck.


Tricia Andersen (Sci Fi)

She hit me with her shoe and shouted ‘bad kitty’ at me.


Susanne Matthews (Romance Suspense)

She straightened her back, and he didn’t miss the way she unclenched and clenched her fists.


Jillian Chantal (Fantasy/Contemporary)

“Has Chris left the station?”


Trisha Faye (Historical Fiction)

She rushed home and went straight upstairs to the trunk where she kept her fabrics and scraps.

Monday, February 3, 2025

TUESDAY TALES - WORD PROMPT "CHILD"

 


Welcome! This week the Tuesday Tales authors are writing to the word prompt "child". Please stop in and visit each writer and read her story. Don't forget to leave a comment. We love comments! 


JEAN JOACHIM (Small Town Romance)

When Charlotte was a child, she lost her mother


FLOSSIE BENTON ROGERS (Cozy Mystery)

“Ain’t the spirits talking their heads off at you?”


TRISHA FAYE (Historical Fiction)

Among the dead were 10 Sisters and 90 children from St. Mary’s Orphans Asylum.

TRICIA ANDERSEN (Sci Fi)

It sounds like the nesting dolls from hell.


SUSANNE MATTHEWS (Romance Suspense)

“You’re out of your ever-loving mind,” she ground out between clenched teeth, her eyes flashing fire.


JILLIAN CHANTAL (Contemporary Fantasy)

  "The girl grew up as a ward of her grandfather."