Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge: Day 1

Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge: Day 1 - Spring

The spring nights were still cold, which sent people indoors early. The Spring Dragon was happy about this, especially on nights of full moons.

Stealthily, it raised its head and checked the quiet street. There was only a cat in the distance and it was headed purposefully in another direction.

With a sigh of relief, the Spring Dragon sank its energy into the wisteria hedge, which immediately immediately arched and rippled to life, taking on the form of a languidly-stretching dragon. Legs, arms and wings stretched in branches as wisteria petals shimmered like scales.

Reaching to the sky, the Dragon pulled down the moon and held it reverentially for a moment, before bending its head to drink of the moon carefully. A long draught, carefully savoured.

Satisfied, the Spring Dragon returned the moon to the sky and settled down to sleep.

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This is a whimsical little story for the Five Photos, Five Stories challenge. A huge thank you to the fabulous Sarah Brentyn (she's on Twitter here, and blogs here) for tagging me, helping me wrestle timezones, and allowing me to have fun with combining photos and words!

(I can't believe I've never thought of using a photo as a basis for writing flash fiction! This won't be leaving my repertoire anytime soon)!

The “rules” of the Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge are:

1) Post a photo each day for five consecutive days.
2) Attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or a short paragraph. It’s entirely up to the individual.
3) Nominate another blogger to carry on the challenge. Your nominee is free to accept or decline the invitation. Just have fun.

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The Sun and the Moon

The following little story came to me while driving home one night on a dark road lit up in silver by a half-moon. I suddenly had a fanciful little image of a car smilingly gobbling up a crescent-shaped sliver of moon-flake which helped its headlights shine brighter. Such an image wouldn't normally find a home outside my head, but

Getting the Right Accent

There was a Twitter hashtag which did the rounds recently: #tweetjustyourvoice. The idea was to use record an audio of your voice with a visual that didn’t include your face, and then post it onto Twitter so that your communities of tweeps (Twitter folk) get to hear how you sound. I would have probably continued on my merry way, happily ignorant of all things connected to this hashtag, except that it got embraced with gusto by the FridayPhrases community , with a certain FridayPhrases host (the very persuasive @AdeleSGray ) inviting me to take part. If ever there was a hashtag designed to wallop me well out of my comfort zone, it was this one. Why? Thank you for asking. There are several reasons.

Making Mauritius-Style Banana Cakes (Gateaux Bananes)

I mis-managed my bananas. I got my timing all wrong and they were suddenly too ripe and too spotted and dotted to eat, and were sitting there looking at me with accusatory and reproachful looks. Banana cake was the obvious solution. But why go the way of regular banana cake, when there's the distant call of Mauritius-style gateaux bananes (you guessed it: banana cakes).

Dodo Au Go-Go

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