#writingchallenge — Public Fediverse posts

It looks like last yea's ProWritingAid NovNov was a success (they have confirmed 2026), with 68,000 participants.

So much so, that ProWritingAid has set up June for Writing With Pride! :techlgbt: :heart_pride: 🏳️‍🌈

Starting June 1, you’ll complete short, focused writing exercises designed to strengthen your craft. Each week centers on a different theme (Becoming, Chosen Family, Intersectionality, and Softness & Joy) giving you new ways to explore character, conflict, and connection on the page.

By the end of this challenge, you will have written 28 short scenes and exercises that deepen your ability to craft character, relationships, and emotional resonance in your work.

I'm going to at least dip in for the speaker events.

Speaking with Pride:
https://prowritingaid.com/write-with-pride/sign-up

#Writing #NaNoWriMo #lgbtqia #NovNov #ProWritingAid #WriitingWithPride #Pride #Authoers #WritingChallenge #June #Events

#ThursThreads Week 708 is now CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who wrote this week and I hope to see you in 2 weeks. They're all yours, Louisa. #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #WritingChallenge https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-708/

Are y'all ready for #ThursThreads Tomorrow? Louisa Bacio is our judge and she's looking forward to your tales. What will your 250 words say? #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WritingChallenge #Writing https://siobhanmuir.com/blog

Whatnot Wednesday & #TDWC

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Welcome, all.  Dan Antion‘s Thursday Doors Writing Challenge.   To join the fun, pick one of the doors that were submitted as inspiration for the challenge and write.  It doesn’t have to be a story — write anything that door image inspires in you.

The inspiration door I chose for today was submitted by, poet and collage artist, Kerfe.   Today, my story is true.  Kerfe’s collage is a brilliant use off lights and shadows, of bits of doors and windows through which one might — or might not find answers.  It’s also a perfect illustration of the strange way I felt when the following happened.  (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.)

The Reminder

It entertains me to use my Amazon Echo device to set reminders for myself for all sorts of timing things, like laundry, birthdays, or “to do” tasks that don’t need to be done on a regular basis.  Or even to “move around” since I sometimes spend hours and hours working at the computer.  Once in a while I set a reminder several weeks in advance.  It works out just fine.  Except that… Well, sometimes Echo and I have a language gap.  This morning (as I write this) Echo gave me a strange reminder.

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Please repeat that, Echo…

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Now, if any of my devices, or the television up and says “Klaatu barada nikto” — I’m going to hide under the bed.

♣ ♣ ♣

For more strange goings on, meet Birdie Devovo, Doug Armstron, and Jinx the magpie in Brother Love: a Crossroad.  Links to that book are below. 

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Brother Love: a Crossroad

Strange things abound in 1950s Parliament, Mississippi.  Jinx the magpie can fill you in on the details.

Universal Purchase Links

Kindle:  relinks.me/B07V25SXFR

Paperback:  relinks.me/107952309X

Also available for $1.99 in virtual voice audiobook.

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday & #TDWC

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Welcome, all.  Dan Antion‘s Thursday Doors Writing Challenge.   To join the fun, pick one of the doors that were submitted as inspiration for the challenge and write.  It doesn’t have to be a story — write anything that door image inspires in you.

The inspiration door I chose for today was submitted by, poet and collage artist, Kerfe.   Today, my story is true.  Kerfe’s collage is a brilliant use off lights and shadows, of bits of doors and windows through which one might — or might not find answers.  It’s also a perfect illustration of the strange way I felt when the following happened.  (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.)

The Reminder

It entertains me to use my Amazon Echo device to set reminders for myself for all sorts of timing things, like laundry, birthdays, or “to do” tasks that don’t need to be done on a regular basis.  Or even to “move around” since I sometimes spend hours and hours working at the computer.  Once in a while I set a reminder several weeks in advance.  It works out just fine.  Except that… Well, sometimes Echo and I have a language gap.  This morning (as I write this) Echo gave me a strange reminder.

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Please repeat that, Echo…

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Now, if any of my devices, or the television up and says “Klaatu barada nikto” — I’m going to hide under the bed.

♣ ♣ ♣

For more strange goings on, meet Birdie Devovo, Doug Armstron, and Jinx the magpie in Brother Love: a Crossroad.  Links to that book are below. 

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Brother Love: a Crossroad

Strange things abound in 1950s Parliament, Mississippi.  Jinx the magpie can fill you in on the details.

Universal Purchase Links

Kindle:  relinks.me/B07V25SXFR

Paperback:  relinks.me/107952309X

Also available for $1.99 in virtual voice audiobook.

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday & #TDWC

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Welcome, all.  Dan Antion‘s Thursday Doors Writing Challenge.   To join the fun, pick one of the doors that were submitted as inspiration for the challenge and write.  It doesn’t have to be a story — write anything that door image inspires in you.

The inspiration door I chose for today was submitted by, poet and collage artist, Kerfe.   Today, my story is true.  Kerfe’s collage is a brilliant use off lights and shadows, of bits of doors and windows through which one might — or might not find answers.  It’s also a perfect illustration of the strange way I felt when the following happened.  (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.)

The Reminder

It entertains me to use my Amazon Echo device to set reminders for myself for all sorts of timing things, like laundry, birthdays, or “to do” tasks that don’t need to be done on a regular basis.  Or even to “move around” since I sometimes spend hours and hours working at the computer.  Once in a while I set a reminder several weeks in advance.  It works out just fine.  Except that… Well, sometimes Echo and I have a language gap.  This morning (as I write this) Echo gave me a strange reminder.

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Please repeat that, Echo…

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Now, if any of my devices, or the television up and says “Klaatu barada nikto” — I’m going to hide under the bed.

♣ ♣ ♣

For more strange goings on, meet Birdie Devovo, Doug Armstron, and Jinx the magpie in Brother Love: a Crossroad.  Links to that book are below. 

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Brother Love: a Crossroad

Strange things abound in 1950s Parliament, Mississippi.  Jinx the magpie can fill you in on the details.

Universal Purchase Links

Kindle:  relinks.me/B07V25SXFR

Paperback:  relinks.me/107952309X

Also available for $1.99 in virtual voice audiobook.

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday & #TDWC

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Welcome, all.  Dan Antion‘s Thursday Doors Writing Challenge.   To join the fun, pick one of the doors that were submitted as inspiration for the challenge and write.  It doesn’t have to be a story — write anything that door image inspires in you.

The inspiration door I chose for today was submitted by, poet and collage artist, Kerfe.   Today, my story is true.  Kerfe’s collage is a brilliant use off lights and shadows, of bits of doors and windows through which one might — or might not find answers.  It’s also a perfect illustration of the strange way I felt when the following happened.  (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.)

The Reminder

It entertains me to use my Amazon Echo device to set reminders for myself for all sorts of timing things, like laundry, birthdays, or “to do” tasks that don’t need to be done on a regular basis.  Or even to “move around” since I sometimes spend hours and hours working at the computer.  Once in a while I set a reminder several weeks in advance.  It works out just fine.  Except that… Well, sometimes Echo and I have a language gap.  This morning (as I write this) Echo gave me a strange reminder.

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Please repeat that, Echo…

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Now, if any of my devices, or the television up and says “Klaatu barada nikto” — I’m going to hide under the bed.

♣ ♣ ♣

For more strange goings on, meet Birdie Devovo, Doug Armstron, and Jinx the magpie in Brother Love: a Crossroad.  Links to that book are below. 

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Brother Love: a Crossroad

Strange things abound in 1950s Parliament, Mississippi.  Jinx the magpie can fill you in on the details.

Universal Purchase Links

Kindle:  relinks.me/B07V25SXFR

Paperback:  relinks.me/107952309X

Also available for $1.99 in virtual voice audiobook.

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday & #TDWC

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Welcome, all.  Dan Antion‘s Thursday Doors Writing Challenge.   To join the fun, pick one of the doors that were submitted as inspiration for the challenge and write.  It doesn’t have to be a story — write anything that door image inspires in you.

The inspiration door I chose for today was submitted by, poet and collage artist, Kerfe.   Today, my story is true.  Kerfe’s collage is a brilliant use off lights and shadows, of bits of doors and windows through which one might — or might not find answers.  It’s also a perfect illustration of the strange way I felt when the following happened.  (Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.)

The Reminder

It entertains me to use my Amazon Echo device to set reminders for myself for all sorts of timing things, like laundry, birthdays, or “to do” tasks that don’t need to be done on a regular basis.  Or even to “move around” since I sometimes spend hours and hours working at the computer.  Once in a while I set a reminder several weeks in advance.  It works out just fine.  Except that… Well, sometimes Echo and I have a language gap.  This morning (as I write this) Echo gave me a strange reminder.

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Please repeat that, Echo…

Echo:  Aires kyon ro rahaa hoon.

Now, if any of my devices, or the television up and says “Klaatu barada nikto” — I’m going to hide under the bed.

♣ ♣ ♣

For more strange goings on, meet Birdie Devovo, Doug Armstron, and Jinx the magpie in Brother Love: a Crossroad.  Links to that book are below. 

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Brother Love: a Crossroad

Strange things abound in 1950s Parliament, Mississippi.  Jinx the magpie can fill you in on the details.

Universal Purchase Links

Kindle:  relinks.me/B07V25SXFR

Paperback:  relinks.me/107952309X

Also available for $1.99 in virtual voice audiobook.

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Goal: Make the reader feel smart for figuring it out.

Share your "Before & After" in the replies! Let's see how much tension you can add by cutting the explanation. 🧊🌊

#WritingCommunity #WritingChallenge #Editing
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#ThursThreads Week 706 Winners blog is up. Congrats to FORTY-SIX TIME WINNER Bill Engleson and Honorable Mention Silver James. Great thanks to David Ludwig for judging this week. Check out his comments and the winning tale. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #WritingChallenge #Writing #AmWriting https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-706-winners/

#CreativeWriting Prompt: Cauldron

Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow, sleeping heart.

more...

#WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #WordWranglers #ShortFiction #Writing

#CreativeWriting Prompt: Cauldron

Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow, sleeping heart.

more...

#WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #WordWranglers #ShortFiction #Writing

#CreativeWriting Prompt: Cauldron

Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow, sleeping heart.

more...

#WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #WordWranglers #ShortFiction #Writing

#CreativeWriting Prompt: Cauldron

Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow, sleeping heart.

more...

#WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #WordWranglers #ShortFiction #Writing

#CreativeWriting Prompt: Cauldron

Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow, sleeping heart.

more...

#WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #WordWranglers #ShortFiction #Writing

#ThursThreads Week 705 is now CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who wrote this week and I hope to catch you next week. They're all yours, K.R. #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-tying-tales-together-week-705/

Whatnot Wednesday and Inspiration for #TDWC

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Hi, everyone.  May just might be my favorite month, and that’s because of Dan Antion‘s 2026 Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC).  This morning Dan posted all the “doors” images that people submitted for storytellers to use as inspiration prompts for the challenge, throughout the month of May.  I say storytellers because it’s open to whatever kind of creative work the images inspire in you.  There’s more information at Dan’s blog.

A Peril in the Vines.  For Thursday Doors purposes, gates are acceptable as doors.

Admittedly the paths inside my mind are awfully twisty.  A video mentioned “Jonah in the belly of the whale” and him being there for 3 days.  Participants could submit 3 images.  The next thing I knew, I was imagining a real house constructed to look like a whale.  It would need a huge pool around it, and a boat to ferry the occupants across the water.  Maybe it should be up high somewhere, for a nice view of the city.  Oh, and the door… that should look like one from Captain Nemo’s submarine…  Hence my composite image above.

Most of you will recognize the vintage Ford and Tiamat the cat from my current writing exercises, The Dragons of Cronesboro.  I was so infatuated with the wonderful car John W. Howell suggested to kickoff those stories, and the Siamese cat too… that I had to share one of the many car images I made for Dan’s challenge, hoping others would be as inspired by the splendid vehicle as I was. 

I hope to do at least a few story-posts for the challenge during May.  I’m bringing back the Pumpkin Hat Girls for my first offering.  That story is inspired by one of the images from DennyHo at Thoughts of an E’ville Woman.  I’m polishing up that short story now.  The Pumpkin Hat Girls and I will see you on May 1st.

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Naturally, the obligatory shameless self-promotion must be included.

A Peril in the Vines

Universal Purchase Links

A Peril in the Vines

e-book:  relinks.me/B0DS4G7RSD

Paperback:  relinks.me/B0DS69GJDV

A Medium’s Peril full series link: relinks.me/B0CG2SXX24

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday and Inspiration for #TDWC

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Hi, everyone.  May just might be my favorite month, and that’s because of Dan Antion‘s 2026 Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC).  This morning Dan posted all the “doors” images that people submitted for storytellers to use as inspiration prompts for the challenge, throughout the month of May.  I say storytellers because it’s open to whatever kind of creative work the images inspire in you.  There’s more information at Dan’s blog.

A Peril in the Vines.  For Thursday Doors purposes, gates are acceptable as doors.

Admittedly the paths inside my mind are awfully twisty.  A video mentioned “Jonah in the belly of the whale” and him being there for 3 days.  Participants could submit 3 images.  The next thing I knew, I was imagining a real house constructed to look like a whale.  It would need a huge pool around it, and a boat to ferry the occupants across the water.  Maybe it should be up high somewhere, for a nice view of the city.  Oh, and the door… that should look like one from Captain Nemo’s submarine…  Hence my composite image above.

Most of you will recognize the vintage Ford and Tiamat the cat from my current writing exercises, The Dragons of Cronesboro.  I was so infatuated with the wonderful car John W. Howell suggested to kickoff those stories, and the Siamese cat too… that I had to share one of the many car images I made for Dan’s challenge, hoping others would be as inspired by the splendid vehicle as I was. 

I hope to do at least a few story-posts for the challenge during May.  I’m bringing back the Pumpkin Hat Girls for my first offering.  That story is inspired by one of the images from DennyHo at Thoughts of an E’ville Woman.  I’m polishing up that short story now.  The Pumpkin Hat Girls and I will see you on May 1st.

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Naturally, the obligatory shameless self-promotion must be included.

A Peril in the Vines

Universal Purchase Links

A Peril in the Vines

e-book:  relinks.me/B0DS4G7RSD

Paperback:  relinks.me/B0DS69GJDV

A Medium’s Peril full series link: relinks.me/B0CG2SXX24

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday and Inspiration for #TDWC

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Hi, everyone.  May just might be my favorite month, and that’s because of Dan Antion‘s 2026 Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC).  This morning Dan posted all the “doors” images that people submitted for storytellers to use as inspiration prompts for the challenge, throughout the month of May.  I say storytellers because it’s open to whatever kind of creative work the images inspire in you.  There’s more information at Dan’s blog.

A Peril in the Vines.  For Thursday Doors purposes, gates are acceptable as doors.

Admittedly the paths inside my mind are awfully twisty.  A video mentioned “Jonah in the belly of the whale” and him being there for 3 days.  Participants could submit 3 images.  The next thing I knew, I was imagining a real house constructed to look like a whale.  It would need a huge pool around it, and a boat to ferry the occupants across the water.  Maybe it should be up high somewhere, for a nice view of the city.  Oh, and the door… that should look like one from Captain Nemo’s submarine…  Hence my composite image above.

Most of you will recognize the vintage Ford and Tiamat the cat from my current writing exercises, The Dragons of Cronesboro.  I was so infatuated with the wonderful car John W. Howell suggested to kickoff those stories, and the Siamese cat too… that I had to share one of the many car images I made for Dan’s challenge, hoping others would be as inspired by the splendid vehicle as I was. 

I hope to do at least a few story-posts for the challenge during May.  I’m bringing back the Pumpkin Hat Girls for my first offering.  That story is inspired by one of the images from DennyHo at Thoughts of an E’ville Woman.  I’m polishing up that short story now.  The Pumpkin Hat Girls and I will see you on May 1st.

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Naturally, the obligatory shameless self-promotion must be included.

A Peril in the Vines

Universal Purchase Links

A Peril in the Vines

e-book:  relinks.me/B0DS4G7RSD

Paperback:  relinks.me/B0DS69GJDV

A Medium’s Peril full series link: relinks.me/B0CG2SXX24

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday and Inspiration for #TDWC

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Hi, everyone.  May just might be my favorite month, and that’s because of Dan Antion‘s 2026 Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC).  This morning Dan posted all the “doors” images that people submitted for storytellers to use as inspiration prompts for the challenge, throughout the month of May.  I say storytellers because it’s open to whatever kind of creative work the images inspire in you.  There’s more information at Dan’s blog.

A Peril in the Vines.  For Thursday Doors purposes, gates are acceptable as doors.

Admittedly the paths inside my mind are awfully twisty.  A video mentioned “Jonah in the belly of the whale” and him being there for 3 days.  Participants could submit 3 images.  The next thing I knew, I was imagining a real house constructed to look like a whale.  It would need a huge pool around it, and a boat to ferry the occupants across the water.  Maybe it should be up high somewhere, for a nice view of the city.  Oh, and the door… that should look like one from Captain Nemo’s submarine…  Hence my composite image above.

Most of you will recognize the vintage Ford and Tiamat the cat from my current writing exercises, The Dragons of Cronesboro.  I was so infatuated with the wonderful car John W. Howell suggested to kickoff those stories, and the Siamese cat too… that I had to share one of the many car images I made for Dan’s challenge, hoping others would be as inspired by the splendid vehicle as I was. 

I hope to do at least a few story-posts for the challenge during May.  I’m bringing back the Pumpkin Hat Girls for my first offering.  That story is inspired by one of the images from DennyHo at Thoughts of an E’ville Woman.  I’m polishing up that short story now.  The Pumpkin Hat Girls and I will see you on May 1st.

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

♣ ♣ ♣

Naturally, the obligatory shameless self-promotion must be included.

A Peril in the Vines

Universal Purchase Links

A Peril in the Vines

e-book:  relinks.me/B0DS4G7RSD

Paperback:  relinks.me/B0DS69GJDV

A Medium’s Peril full series link: relinks.me/B0CG2SXX24

♣ ♣ ♣

This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

This blog is entirely human-written.  Furthermore, the author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training AI technologies to generate text.  No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission.  Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

All images are either the property of the author, or used with permission, or from free sources.

Copyright © 2026 by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene

All rights reserved.

Whatnot Wednesday and Inspiration for #TDWC

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Hi, everyone.  May just might be my favorite month, and that’s because of Dan Antion‘s 2026 Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC).  This morning Dan posted all the “doors” images that people submitted for storytellers to use as inspiration prompts for the challenge, throughout the month of May.  I say storytellers because it’s open to whatever kind of creative work the images inspire in you.  There’s more information at Dan’s blog.

A Peril in the Vines.  For Thursday Doors purposes, gates are acceptable as doors.

Admittedly the paths inside my mind are awfully twisty.  A video mentioned “Jonah in the belly of the whale” and him being there for 3 days.  Participants could submit 3 images.  The next thing I knew, I was imagining a real house constructed to look like a whale.  It would need a huge pool around it, and a boat to ferry the occupants across the water.  Maybe it should be up high somewhere, for a nice view of the city.  Oh, and the door… that should look like one from Captain Nemo’s submarine…  Hence my composite image above.

Most of you will recognize the vintage Ford and Tiamat the cat from my current writing exercises, The Dragons of Cronesboro.  I was so infatuated with the wonderful car John W. Howell suggested to kickoff those stories, and the Siamese cat too… that I had to share one of the many car images I made for Dan’s challenge, hoping others would be as inspired by the splendid vehicle as I was. 

I hope to do at least a few story-posts for the challenge during May.  I’m bringing back the Pumpkin Hat Girls for my first offering.  That story is inspired by one of the images from DennyHo at Thoughts of an E’ville Woman.  I’m polishing up that short story now.  The Pumpkin Hat Girls and I will see you on May 1st.

Friendly comments are welcome.  Thanks for opening this door.  Hugs!

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Naturally, the obligatory shameless self-promotion must be included.

A Peril in the Vines

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This post is part of Dan Antion 6th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC). Click the blue link for more information about the challenge and how to showcase your stories.)  Fortunately for me, Dan’s rules for the writing challenge are wonderfully flexible and include any sort of creativity. 

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I’m supposing this treacherous new leader (whose name I refuse to write) really does know her history, so I don’t suppose I can persuade her to stop being cruel and divisive.
Instead, I want to write positive stories, and I’m asking you to join me!
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Reflections of Elegance: A Dance Beyond the Veil

Welcome to this week’s dance class, everyone. For those first-timers, I’m Michael, your instructor. Let’s begin with introductions from the first-timers.”

They moved around the circle, nervous laughter flitting between strangers. more so when Tom, dressed in a top hat and tails, introduced himself. When they finished, Michael counted again.

Eleven. An odd number.

“Well,” he smiled, clapping once, “who’d like to partner with me? Maggie?”

“I’m with Emily, my wife,” announced Maggie.

“Tom?” Michael gestured. “You don’t mind dancing with another man, do you? After all, you’re dressed for the part.”

Tom looked horrified. “Why would I dance with a man? I’m here with my wife.”

There was a polite pause while everyone waited for Tom’s wife to reveal herself. A few people looked towards all the empty space around Tom.

“Of course,” Michael said casually as he broke the silence. “Right, take your positions, everyone. I’ve some hits of the eighties to dance to later, but first we’re going to do an old-fashioned waltz.”

Tom frowned before music filled the room, and shoes softly whispered over polished wood. Partners turned, stepped, and breathed together.

Tom moved carefully, one hand curved around an invisible waist, the other clasping fingers no one else could see. Every now and then, Michael and the other dancers watched Tom smile as he spoke to himself.

“Tom,” Michael said gently, as he approached the edge of the mirror. “Are you sure you’re all right? You’re dancing alone.”

“But she’s right here with me. We’ve been coming here for years,” he said as he faced Michael and the large, mirrored wall. “Tell him, Darling.”

In the room, the figure of a much younger woman in a ball gown appeared in Tom’s arms.

Maggie gasped. Emily staggered backwards while Michael felt the air leave his lungs.

The woman kissed Tom on the cheek, leaving lipstick on his face, and then lifted a hand and pressed it flat against the mirror.

Inside the mirror, Michael and the other dancers started to scream. Tom watched as their reflections shattered into tiny pieces along with the mirror before he and his wife left the room.

Outside the old music hall, where many from the past once danced, the ghostly figures of a man in a top hat and tails and a woman in a ball gown departed the hall once more. Tom hadn’t liked the glimpse of the future he had seen in the mirror.  

Written in response to Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompt: Theme: Dance.

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They approached the old barrier. What would they find?

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Writing Challenge:
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Happy first day of December!

The previous month was quite busy when it came to creative challenges. Anything interesting happing this month?

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Hello lovely people while I am waiting to move instances, if you want writing prompts for Academic Writing Months that are 5-10 minutes each day have a nosey at the link below:

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