Tag Archives: Saturday Centus

Oops. I wrote it last week, I swear. I just forgot to post it. Joe staggered, cursing, into the bathroom. Getting up at six for a construction job? How had his life come to that? “Oh yeah, that’s how,” he … Continue reading →

Owing to connectivity issues during the first part of the week and the Blogger outage the second half of the week, I wasn’t able to do last week’s Centus. I thought I’d just miss one…but then I decided to cheat … Continue reading →

Wow, I’ve been a crappy blogger this week. Only two posts. That’s pretty weak. A weak week. And now I’m reaching for lame puns. Sigh. Saturday Centus celebrates one year of writing prompts today. I haven’t been along for the … Continue reading →

So this week we’re supposed to offer a review of one of last week’s entries [link fixed]. As is my wont, I shall cheat. Mr. Shakspur’s new play, Pimplius and Dimwittica, is precisely the kind of farce that the Queen … Continue reading →

This week’s prompt is one of those that seems prosaic at first, but it really isn’t, because it’s the prosaic ones that really make one dig a bit deeper to come up with an idea. Anyway, here’s mine. I went … Continue reading →

Before I get to this week’s prompt, an apology to other participants: I’ve been lax the last two weeks on reading your own efforts. Really lax. I’ll try to do better, I promise! And now, without ado of any kind: … Continue reading →

Late with this week’s prompt as well, because yesterday was an abnormally packed Saturday here at Casa Jaquandor: we got up freakishly early (for a Saturday, anyway) to drive ninety minutes for a pancake breakfast, and then I had to … Continue reading →

Obviously, since I was out of town, I was unable to do this week’s Saturday Centus on Saturday. So here it is, on Monday. “Father,” I said as I followed him, “is it true that the lower classes choose their … Continue reading →

Wow! It’s mostly a matter of luck and intuition, but this week’s Centus prompt suggested its story to me almost instantly. I’m serious: I knew within seconds of reading it what my tale would be. The actual writing, however, was … Continue reading →