Tag: Word of the Day

  • Spirits in Isolation

    Spirits in Isolation

    Flash fiction or vignette for our word of the week: Hermetic

  • Musical Maladies

    Musical Maladies

    Flash Fiction featuring a cavalry charge, ice-cream and brass instruments. Exploring the meaning of cornet

  • Modish Living

    Modish Living

    A vignette featuring a overworked CEO, fashionable handbags and trouble. Word of the Week is Modish.

  • He had it Coming

    He had it Coming

    Words for this week. Consigliere, consanguinity, germane, higgledy-piggledy

  • A Basha in Any Storm

    A Basha in Any Storm

    A vignette with this weeks words of the week. Is that basha ready yet? The colonel shouted from across the fire with even more asperity than he generally displayed.

  • A Gentlemen’s Coloquy

    A Gentlemen’s Coloquy

    A vignette: But for tonight, he could enjoy a long coloquy with his brother-in-law over his peripatetic tour of the continent.

  • Words of the Week 37

    Words of the Week 37

    A vignette: The mayor coughed. “It hardly matters, the skill level of the torture!” “No, sir, of course not.” The mayor stared gimlet-eyed at John for a long time. “Very good John. I don’t think it necessary to mention these details to the council, we don’t want a long peregrination from the planned discussion.”