The old queen doesn’t believe the soaking wet ragamuffin who has appeared at her door is a princess, but she knows how to find out.
Fiction Writing, Life's Adventures, Writing Prompts and Exercises
My Princess-and-the-Pea Moment
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Action/Adventure, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Words, Zombie Fiction
Bodacious Creed – a Review
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What if once you died, you could be rebuilt and brought back to life? Before I began to read Bodacious Creed, I saw that it was steampunk zombie western. I know what a zombie is and I know what a western is. But what is steampunk? That is one genre that I hadn’t read before.…
Fiction Writing, Household, Product Reviews, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Talking Trash
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Trash cans haven’t always been around for families to dispose of their trash in. So what did they do with their garbage? That depended on where they lived. Farmers and their families turned food scraps into pig slop. Of course, pigs will eat anything, even dead bodies, so who knows what was fed to them.…
Action/Adventure, Book Reviews, Books for Young People, Fiction Writing
Meeting of the Mustangs – a Review
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Horses are beautiful animals, but not all of them grow up on farms. Meet the wild mustangs of the American west. How do these mustangs live in the wild? They are not very comfortable around people and try to avoid them, so how hard would it be for a human to gain the trust of…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Historical Fiction, New Words Learned, Words
The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton – a Review
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton definitely had a mind of her own. She had no interest in things that women were supposed to find fascinating. Instead, she had an insatiable desire to involve herself in chemistry, law, mathematics, the freeing of slaves, and improving the rights of women. In 1823, many laws were unfair to women. This…
Fiction Writing, Phobias, Writing Prompts and Exercises
Farm Animal Phobias
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Did you know that there are people who are deathly afraid of cows and horses? Goats, sheep, and pigs fill others with terror. Remember, each time a person with a phobia is confronted by what he or she fears, there are physical reactions. Dread, nausea, or breathlessness overcomes him. He sweats excessively and possibly loses…
