Watcher Doings 14

10/29/202510/29/2025 / Liz H-H / 8 Comments

Join us for a weekly blog party in Six Sentence Stories, hosted by Denise and attended by some mighty fine, fun folk. Prompt word=TRICK. Read, write and come back for more on SIX SENTENCE STORIES.

As Ferah stood behind the banquet sideboard handing out treats and holiday hootch on Samhain, she pondered the dramatic change in her brother’s attitude toward other fae outside their family group, and his increasing hostility toward her since she became a full member of the Council of Peacekeepers: what trick was this that broke and turned us from childhood best mates to this sadness?

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Watcher Doings 13

10/19/202510/22/2025 / Liz H-H / 21 Comments

Join us for a weekly blog party in Six Sentence Stories, hosted by Denise and attended by some mighty fine, fun folk. Prompt word=SPICE. Read, write and come back for more on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night).

The Council of Peacekeepers had gathered in the sunlit hollow above the Great Falls to celebrate Ferah’s naming day and full induction into the council; her older brother, Montay, had been lobbying for a change in mission and had other plans for the meeting.

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Watcher Doings 10

10/01/202510/18/2025 / Liz H-H / 13 Comments

Welcome to the Six Sentence Story weekly blog hop, where we share stories, poetry, SOC, based on a single prompt word. This week’s prompt = TEAR. Swing on by this multi-national crowd to read, or share your own, party going active Wed-Sat night. https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/0b455c269e32418e93ca0e833e803417

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“Well now , that’s two of us loose in the wind,” growled Elinorth, gnawing her lower lip and fretting at her longest and most favorite chin hair.

“Both Frenlodth and Rockmouse gone missing with no check-ins means we need our best and oldest tracker,” and glaring at the gathering of gnomes rather than show her tears, added “Any volunteers?”

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Watcher Doings 9

09/23/202509/24/2025 / Liz H-H / 14 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: CHOICE. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night) The Café is open. Come as you are!

Yes, it was inconvenient that tracker Rockmouse was extremely cautious, especially since gnome Fernlodth’s trust in Ferah (honestly earned) was almost an afterthought, as automatic and natural as breathing a sweet winter’s dream.

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Watcher Doings 8

09/16/202509/17/2025 / Liz H-H / 20 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: PILOT . Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night) The Café is open. Come as you are!

The blueberry muffins (fully cooked, though the oven’s pilot light had snuffed out early) had been devoured, and Fernlodth now lay on his back, sighing sweet contentment with a rounded belly, while Rockmouse sat crisscross, her one nibbled-on muffin cradled on her upper knee; it was not that she wasn’t hungry, but that she sensed the presence of a increasingly hostile presence above them.

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