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October 16, 2026

Fiction: The Helper Witch

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: children, couple, emancipated, fun, idyll and/or happen, just, moment, peaceful, things. 
    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 Helper Witch
 
Lucia was emancipated from her parents, husband, siblings, friends and yet, her life was not idyll nor peaceful. Doing everything herself was something she had never done before but she was willing. When she brought the broken down house, she had hoped to turn it into a bed and breakfast to maybe make a living and restart her life without everybody interfering. About a year into the renovation, she broke her leg and all her plans went kaput. 
    That fateful night, Lucia was just tidying up the livingroom after the workers had finished for the day when one of the scaffolds collapsed on her. It took four painful minutes before she mustered the will to call which ended in a shouting match with one surly building contractor before she was taken to the hospital.

October 15, 2026

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 5

This particular character is based on Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz.
Name: Dora Somewhere
Age: 11
Loves: Dogs, home cooking, flying houses
Hates: Evil witches, tornadoes, waking up early
Ability: Create wind funnels that could move things of great bulk such as vehicles, houses, castles, etc.
Curious Tidbit: When Dora was seven, she was lost in someone's dream and was having such a good time that she stayed for two days.

If you can go anywhere (real or make-up), where would you go? 

October 14, 2026

Draw Something Oct. 26 - 4

Name: Mistress Tippy aka Tourmaline Tipper Fan
Teaches: Magic & Accidents Study
Loves: Tea, books, trips to the library
Hates: Noise of all kinds, defacing books, jokes about librarians
Ability: Freeze anything 
Curious Tidbit: When Tippy was an assistant librarian at a private school, one of the students accidentally toppled a couple of bookshelves in the school's library but Tippy reorganized/put back every book in under an hour while battling the flu and a sprained ankle.

Do you like libraries (public or private) and have you ever visited one?