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Séduire Fans Photo Collage #1

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The Lovely Ones who purchased their copy of Séduire, Part I. Photo Collage Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt. Individual photos taken by the beautiful ones holding up their copy.

Séduire is a collection of serial fiction tales and flash fiction standalone stories written over a period of three years. Dive into the world of a little girl whose family uproots and moves to “The Deep South” because of a new opportunity presented to her father. Transport yourself to the life of a little girl who becomes a mother and a sister to her child at the hands of her sadistic and evil father. Walk with a grieving sister and her mother as they remember a woman who was brutally murdered by her partner. Her young boys live out her legacy as they mourn her.

Experience parenthood as you enter the world of soon-to-be young parents and their ups and downs in life change them significantly while they journey along their new path. Make a brief cameo into the hearts of a dedicated aunt and a rebellious teenage niece whose father has lost his grip on his child.

There are so many more characters with which to connect. As you thumb through each page, the author wants you to feel something; with these stories, you will.

Thank you so much for trusting my work enough to make it apart of your reading collection. I appreciate you, and words cannot express how grateful I am. Peace and blessings.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Fortune

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Prompt for Week #115 December 07, 2024 to December 13, 2024

Title: Lucky Not

Six Words: B l e s s e d is a word that lives.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Fortune” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #115 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week ##115 (Dec 07, 2024 – Dec 13, 2024)

Fortune

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My contribution simply speaks a bit about being “blessed” versus good luck or fortune–which goes back to the title for my six words: “Lucky Not.” I thought this was a fun theme for this week’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt, and I am interested in seeing the responses. So many bloggers have been incredibly creative over the past few weeks, and I believe that will also be the case this time.

Perhaps, you want to give it a whirl, too?!

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Resilience

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Prompt for Week #113 November 23, 2024 – November 29, 2024

Title: God-given Strength

Six Words: Stronger than my pain–God-given resilience

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Resilience” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #113 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week ##113 (Nov 23, 2024 – Nov 29, 2024)

Resilience

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My contribution to this week’s theme wasn’t too hard to come up with–I often say, “This steadfastness has to be heaven-sent.” So, I just had to think of a few words that would best describe how I feel about resilience and how it best describes my character regarding it.

I hope you all will participate. Head on over to Shweta’s page for the full breakdown! Happy Wednesday, beautiful people!

What If the Stranger is God?

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A Book Review

The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

I doubt I have to say how much I love Mitch Albom. At this point, many of you should be well aware. Lol! If you’re a good writer, I look forward to your work. If you’re a great writer, I pine over it.

Mitch has proven to be a great writer; the older he gets, the better he becomes. I hope I’ll be reading his work for many years to come.

The Stranger in the Lifeboat is such a touching story. It made me think about the many times I doubted God after asking for help and for signs about things of which I was unsure, and God never left my side even during my faltering faith.

He remained. He is.

Here is the review for this incredible piece of literature:

“God Gifts Us What We Need

And He does so when we need it. This book shook me to my core. Ten people, shipwrecked and forced to spend multiple days with each other on a lifeboat miss out on the opportunity to live because they would not believe.

How can you read that and not be stunned? After a glorious yacht (The Galaxy), owned by multimillionaire, Jason Lambert, explodes, he and nine other people are tasked with a challenge from the Lord: believe in him, vocalize it, and they would be saved.

As I read through the pages and learned the stories of each character’s life, I had hoped that someone would gather up everyone and create an atmosphere devoted to believing the Lord was on board with them, and they could be saved.

I was wrong. No one believed hard enough. And those who did believe, only did so when sprinkles of miracles were placed in order by the Lord, Him/Herself.

Everyone wanted to get out of the situation in which they had been placed, yet no one had the heart and faith to rally the other beings so a longer life could be extended to each of them.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll shake your head in total disbelief at the things that occur in this book.

Mitch Albom has crafted a fictional story that feels real and will stun the reader without a doubt. This is the kind of book you read and then tell a friend to tell a friend and so on until a long line of avid readers have connected through these words.

I truly enjoyed The Stranger in the Lifeboat, and I know you will, too.”

I believe we are given helpful tools when we least expect them. This book was/is my helpful tool.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

Three Favorite Meals in This Household?

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What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?

*Spaghetti and meatballs. *Smothered turkey wings, rice & homemade gravy, and steamed cabbage with tomatoes & onions. *BBQ lamb chops, macaroni & cheese, and collard greens.

A good meal makes the heart (and tummy) happy.

And here’s a funny video about how shifty the memory can be as we get older.

CSAPunch via YouTube

Happy Friday, beautiful people!

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Childhood

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Prompt for Week #112 (Nov 16, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024): CHILDHOOD

Title: My Upbringing

Six Words: Robbed of childhood–adult b e f o r e time.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Childhood” and here are the prompt details:

Welcome to Week #112 of the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt. Click here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #112 (Nov 16, 2024 – Nov 22, 2024)

Childhood

Click here for the 6WSP image.

I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My six-word contribution is above. I had a playful, endearing, active, and fun childhood until my parents’ divorce when I was twelve years old, and then . . . all hell broke loose. I became a parent to my much younger siblings- mothering them before I was done being mothered. It’s a heavy thing to take on a role you never asked for, however, you had to step up and perform. “Childhood” is a great theme, and I am happy I could participate. Maybe you want to as well!

Also, 18 years have passed by so quickly. I swear I blinked and here we are . . .

WordPress screen capture; 18 years of blogging. THANK YOU!

Peace and blessings, beautiful people.