September 2023 Blog Battle
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Our word this month is:
Particle
You can start writing at any time, but make sure you post your story by the
22nd of September
to have a link shared here and on social media.
Once you’ve posted your story to your blog, put a link to it in the comments section, and we’ll add your story to the Battle Stories Line-up post that goes live the 3rd Friday of the month (the same as the post-by date).
Make sure to check back and read some of the stories of your fellow battlers. Leave comments to encourage these writers. And go a step further in supporting one another by sharing each other’s stories on your own blog or social media, whatever you’re most comfortable with!
Basic Rules:
The Prompt Word will be given the First FRIDAY of every month.
Post your story by the 3rd Friday of the same month (this is the same date as the Stories post goes live).
RULES
- up to 2000 words max (give or take a few)
- fictional tale (or true if you really want)
- Any genre that fits within PG-13 (or less)-type Content – let’s keep this family friendly!
- Your story must contain the randomly chosen word(s) and/or be centered around the word meaning in a way that shows it is clearly related.
- Go for the entertainment value!
- Put a link back to your #BlogBattle Short Story in the comments section
- Please tweet and otherwise share your battler buddies’ stories across social media.
- Use the hashtag #BlogBattle when tweeting all the stories so we can cross-share.
- Have fun!
BlogBattle 
Here’s mine this month:
Can’t start reading until next week again 😦 but looking forward to seeing the others! 🙂
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In my defence: Original idea arose during that heatwave (I hate heatwaves), written during something which insists it was not a Covid variant but seemed to do a very good impression of one:
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Here’s mine. There may be sarcasm. And puns. It’s been one of those months.
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Here’s mine straight out of the block. Roger, Its not quite where I want it to be. But then this character is elusive.
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Gonna have fun😀!!
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haha. Mines just gone live
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I dare not look.😀 I make it a rule not to look at the submissions until mine is up, lest I inadvertently steal ‘something’😳
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Haha. If you did I’d have to write you in as his next target 🙈
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Oh my 😯I don’t think I would do so well in your world-build either. I would have to be one who cowers somewhere and makes panicky incomprehensible prophecies.
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You could be the Gatekeeper or the Elder Mage… can’t say more, or it might be a spoiler. Oddly, Jacob features in Black Marsh, and thus far, neither Assassin nor Monk has figured out why his name is etched on the wall of the Black Swan: the former public house now time-locked in a place where planning permission curiously gets misplaced.
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That’s a truly evocative atmosphere Gary, mysterious places like The Black Swan are always compelling. I like to think back to the time it was a Tavern; what went on aside from the drinking, what sort of customers, staff and what happened?
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Maybe you’d like Black Marsh then. A few things in there give background to DS. Also has two of my favourite characters in. Ade and Rowena the goth. Not to mention a publican whose best friend is the paradox man
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Sounds an interesting place. But I don’t suppose they’d serve lemonade, with ice?
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Absolutely, Del is a most accommodating landlord… apart from his other role as a magician
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Oh good. If they let me sit in a corner (at some part of time) with my iced lemonade, I just sit and watch the world go by.😀
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