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| Yep... 5 more to review: Silly song >>> sillier dark lyrics
Short epistle, memoir
10 line poem
Not Mr. Ed! Flash, funny?
7 line poem
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| Five more fish to fry for Friday: Sad flash, may trigger
Warning about moving to Costa Rica
Flash, detective, comedy?
Room 969, erotica, XGC, be warned
Sad flash
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| Did you say Fish Fry Friday? Yum!! |
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| Fivesixer - IYKYK ... and you of all people would know. It's one of the things I miss about where we grew up. These need an edit but I'm resisting that urge. I'd rather have more victims readers enter my lair and leave an opinion. I have over 1,000 items! At least in June they can earn extra credit for their reviews of what I write. It's working by the way. I'm only posting the lonely (items with only 1 review = someone liked them). I may have to go looking for neglected works with no reviews (next year?) as I'm perusing my old blogs for writings that have barely seen the light of day. 200 new items will be just a start. Goal: 1.500 by January (now at 1.285 items). |
Reply| Five more to read and review for my anniversary month: Flash, dementia, isolation, sad:
Flash, community meal
Poem, me-me-me.
Flash, Cat, realism.
Flash, vampire?
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| I have over 100 items with only one review. I would say that they are ripe for another bite! a bit vampirish...
a poem not afraid of death or reviews...
a sad lament...
a comedy sponsored by Nancy Drew Nanette...
a trauma... may trigger...
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It's my anniversary month.  |
| I feel bad... I failed to enter at least 4 contests this month. Today I tried to catch up and even wrote 3 new pieces. These were my contest entries this month:
With old items there's always the risk that they've been entered before somewhere (as entries if not as items). Where? After 20 years here... I dunno  |
| That many seems like a success even if a few contests didn't get the privilege of getting an entry from you. |
Wordsmitty ✍️  - I created a crossword but couldn't get it to save the format. Tried numerous times. I had an idea for the sitewide $$$$ contest but not the inspiration to make it under 18+; it wanted to be GC. One of these already won a ribbon. The other ribbon was given by a friend years ago. Tomorrow I'll make a new list but my priorities may shift in June. |
Someone needs to read this...
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New post in "TABOO forum: sex"  [GC]: "Do you know anyone who isn't XX or XY?" Does knowing someone make a difference? |
| Sssooo... I'm at 888 Community Recognitions. 8 is a lucky number among the Chinese, so I'm happy for a moment. I write better when In depressed... And there’s your signature and a bright red ribbon! No mention of me. And the bright red ribbon from Shadows & Light was veddy nice. It doesn't have a review yet though:
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Reviews can be hard for people (those wwo take the site fairly "seriously," otherwise a review can be a small, kindly note  ) because they might feel they have nothing "review-y" (critical, analytical, etc) to say about it, especially a poem... I can tell you this one captures a lot of feeling in simple words and images. |
| Oh... a comment is fine, Amethyst Angel 💐. I personally do not like reviewing and prefer commenting. This poem though was feeling a bit lonely. |
| JJ wrote this song with others. Johannes Pietsch (born 29 April 2001), known by his stage name JJ, is an Austrian singer-songwriter. He represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, winning with the song "Wasted Love", today! May 17, 2025. Pietsch was born in Vienna to an Austrian IT specialist and a Filipino cook, and he grew up in Dubai, where he was introduced to both pop through karaoke parties with his family and opera through his father. Both have influenced his current pop-opera style. In 2016, the family returned to Austria. He speaks German, Tagalog, English and French. He is a counter-tenor soprano. |
| 🌖 HuntersMoon, Anni Pon -- He hit C#6. If sopranoes work on scales they may be able to hit it... eventually. |
Beautifully and dramatically illustrated with music video paired by a one-of-a-kind voice. Deserves way more than Eurovision with pipes made to highlight a lacking scene to attune its visions across wan audience faces. To hear live production like that would be an altering soul experience.  |
| I'm going with Giambattista (1668-1744) Vico's definition of common sense: "judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire people, an entire nation, or the entire human race". I'm not great with "common sense" as I question reality and have always felt I was an outsider. Do you have common sense? In my "Blogville " forum entry: "Common Sense?" |
Brian K Compton  - When one ceases to observe detachedly, one becomes a participant. As a participant, one inevitably changes the scene. |
| Humble Poet PNG and less - Now, I'm starting to ask myself whether I've spent my life as a rock or an idiot. I'm not sure it matters, so long as I've not misled anyone by my idiocy or hurt anyone by my hardness. "Lord, be merciful to me, a fool." |
| I'm officially on semi-hiatus. I'll continue to post in my blog (but my goal is to write more in my hand-written journal). I'll continue to write poems and post them here. I plan to make more items from entries. I have plenty of space to do so. I hope to enter contests on a whim. Too stressful otherwise. I will decrease visiting forums. I will decrease my presence on the newsfeed. I will decrease my blog-reading. I will spend more time IRL with tangible people than online. Follow me on my blog:
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 I've added your Blog to my Member Blog Links, which I've recently started updating. https://www.writing.com/main/profile/blog/enga |
| Kåre เลียม Enga - I'm glad to hear that you aren't disappearing completely. We must all do what is best for ourselves, but I would still miss you, as I miss all good things when they go. |
I'm trying to keep track of contests. I know I'm missing a few.
Does anyone know what the Community Challenge (the big one) will be this month? Not all contests are posted on the newsfeed and it's difficult to keep up. Also, I'm trying to reduce my time on-line and will go on semi-hiatus very soon to reset my focus on life. |
| "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" is running this month and the genre is detective. I do my best to update "Invalid Item" every month. If I know about any contests that are going to be opening in upcoming months I list them as well. |
🐕GeminiGem🎁  - For May it's actually
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I found this chapter/flash in my blog from 2022 and finally made it an item (I would've used a picture of a shoe if I could've found one).
It reminded me of Cubby's contest. By the way... it's spring!
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| I googled The Man With One Red Shoe (Hanks movie), lots of images. I can even make one with AI. I draw. I can take a pic of any of my shoes…size 15, maybe put cat in one. I’m loopy.  Late. Did I butt dial newsfeed? |
| Seen on bookface: "I just finished writing a book on penguins. It probably would've been easier to write it on paper." Immediately thought of S 🤦 |
I've just edited an item I found in my old blog and put into my portfolio:
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