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October 27, 2026

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 12 & 13

Name: Mistress Cue aka Martha Caroline Curlicue Coats
Teaches: Spiritual Communications
Loves: Home cooking, broken things, pop quizzes
Hates: Time travel, cruelty, storms
Ability: Can find ghosts even the ones thought to be invisible
Curious Tidbit: Cue first encountered a ghost when she was four. She told her family she spoke to her dead grandmother who foretold an earthquake but no one believed her. When the earthquake happened, they all thought it was a coincident.

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Name: Mistress Queue aka Elizabeth Queue Quad
Teaches: Cookery & Wok Methodology
Loves: Symmetry, spicy soups, woks
Hates: Bad cooks, alcohol except when it's for cooking, the scent of garlics
Ability: Shrink or enlarge any inanimate objects
Curious Tidbit: Queue learned her cooking skills from a nun in a monastery where she had been banished by her father for refusing to marry. 

Do you cook? Do you enjoy home cooking?

October 26, 2026

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 10 & 11

This particular character is based on Luna from The Harry Potter series.
Name: Lula Jasmine Hart
Age: 12
Loves: Human nature, unusual creatures, radishes
Hates: Spinach, people who lies, math
Ability: Power to persuade people to change their minds
Curious Tidbit: While pregnant, Lula's mother was on a return trip on an airship when a mechanical failure caused it to fall but when her mother went into labor and Lula was born, the ship gently floated down to the ground and just as her mother carried Lula off the ship and onto land, it fell to pieces.

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Name: Baijing 'Baba' Ma
Age: 12
Loves: Simplicity, pink bows, human nature
Hates: Nightmares, stairs, spinach
Ability: Blend into the night or anything around her
Curious Tidbit: Baijing's parents left her at age two on the back doorstep of a farm during a storm and no one noticed she was there for two days.

Do you sleep with some lights on or do you need complete darkness?

October 24, 2026

Fiction: The Ghost in the Library

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are supplied by Sean Jeating and are hosted at River's blog here. This week's prompts are: countenance, favourite, once, pillow, regret and/or bags, faces, machos, steps , swearboarding (makeup but related to waterboarding or skatingboarding and cursing). Another optional prompt is Charlotte's colour of the month - Smoky Rose. 
    The aim of Words for Wednesday is to use one or all of the prompts to write something - ie, a story, a poem, an essay or any forms of writing, fiction or nonfiction, basically write anything you want.

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Fiction: The Ghost in the Library
No one knew who the ghost was in Madam Maxim's manor library but all were certain there was one. Madam's housekeeper, butler, maids, relatives and visitors to the manor all claimed they saw it.
    At the beginning of the spring season, James Washington Maxwell, a friend of Madam's granddaughter's friend's cousin, was invited for a long visit at the manor. Ghosts to him were all nonsense and catawampuses. He had no fear of encountering them. 
    After two evenings of behaving himself, James faked a buggy stomach and turned in for the night. When all was silent, he snuck into the library.