M for ABC Wednesday

The image is from Wikipedia.

Magpie


This is the first year I've seen magpies in my yard. For several weeks, they've rocked small limbs and pestered squirrels while they remain firmly in possession. With long tales and clearly defined black-and-white feathers, magpies race past the windows, bathe in rain puddles and shake themselves dry in the surrounding pines. I'm pleased they've chosen to anchor here for now.

Do you have magpies in your world?

 

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Haiku for Magpie Tales

Tess Kincaid offers the following picture for writers' prompt #86.

image: Michael Sowa, from The Little King

dream crasher 

December shadows

the down side

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L for ABC Wednesday

Lottery

Some time back I read The Tontine, a two-volume novel by Thomas Bertram Costain. Certain parts of it stayed with me and I recently searched for more information. I plan to read this again.

A tontine begins with a number of people investing their funds in a manner which allows the survivor to be rewarded with the full sum.

Another type of lottery is the tombola in which each entrant wins a prize. I'd be in favor of this one.

Our lottery claims to use the money for funding schools which I've always found a little strange.

And, yes, I play the lottery even though winning is unlikely as being lit by lightning. Do you?

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Haiku for Magpie Tales #85

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following image for writers' prompt.

october sun sets
on wings of the elephants
fermented cities

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