Takhayyal prompt #55: Welcome the Love

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, Artists, Poets, Writers, Authors, Dreamers, Friends and Family; Welcome EVERYONE to Nadaness In Motion's weekly picture-prompt writing challenge Takhayyal.

Valentine's Day is upon us once more (a few days from the date of publishing this post) and my friend and artist Yomna El-Mahany has a lovely artwork piece for this occasion. 

Of course, if you're an anti-Valentine's Day person, feel free to twist the image as you wish. Won't hold back your creativity!

Arabic for Imagine, Takhayyal is a challenge for writers of all ages and genres; a place to spark creativity and explore new genres.

Your post can be in English or Arabic, prose, poetry, short story, flash fiction; you name it and write it.

General rules:

·        No nudity, violence, and/or abuse.

·    Leave the link to your post in comments below OR post your piece as REPLY to this post

·        Your piece MUST be inspired in some way or other by the above picture

·        Multiple entries allowed

·     It is not required but it is a nice and encouraging gesture to comment on others' pieces.

·        Feel free to add your Twitter handle (@....) so I can tag you in my tweets!

Let's IMAGINE!

Be Still My Beading Heart – Book Review

Be Still My Beading Heart is a short mini-mystery standalone novella that is part of Janice Peacock's Glass Bead Mystery Series.

Bead maker Jax O'Connell goes to drop off a bead order and returns to find her car missing on Valentine's Day. She sees a tow truck moving away along with the new-on-the-job cute cop.

The short mystery does not involve a murder, making it extra cozy and light, but the mystery is of where Jax's car has disappeared to and whether or not she can get it back.

Jax is also lacking in the romance department. She says: "I usually didn't get much attention from the opposite sex, other than from my attitudinal cat, Gumdrop, but I don't think he counts, nor does Stanley the Bassett hound. The dog snuffled into the living room at that moment, sidled up to me, and gave me a slobbery kiss on the arm. That was probably the closest thing to romance I'd see this Valentine's Day."

The handsome Detective Zachary from High Strung, the first instalment in the series, whom Jax also thinks is hot in a Clark Kent/Superman kind of way makes an appearance.

At one point, Jax has to defend herself and what she uses cracked me up and I just wanted to give a thumbs-up to her and to Janice Peacock.

Be Still My Beading Heart is cozy and enjoyable and I highly recommend it.

Check out my book review of High Strung here. 

Friday 13th & V-Day Recommended Reads

I realise Friday the 13^th is over for most of us, myself included, I still wanted to post this. Here are a few recommended reads for the two occasions, both the scary and the loving.

Also check out this week's picture prompts for Takhayyal, I have one for each occasion.

Back to the books: Click on the book to check out my review for it. (They are not arranged in any order whatsoever)

Scary Stuff:

Thirty Scary Tales by Rayne Hall

Strings by Darren Gallagher (short story collection)

Love/Love-and-adventure

Dreams of Perfection by Rebecca Heflin

Ghosts of theFalls by Sarah Gilman

Hand of Fire by Judith Starkston

Rising by Holly Kelly

My Lady Mage by Alexis Morgan

Twin Magnolia:A Soul Call by Victoria Popescu

Bound by Duty by Stormy Smith (While this book does not focus on love, it still has a lot of emotions with a tinge of romance. You'll love Aidan. I know I did)

Keep reading and writing!

Takhayyal - Friday 13th vs Valentine's Day

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, Artists, Poets, Writers, Authors, Dreamers, Friends and Family; Welcome EVERYONE to Nadaness In Motion's weekly picture-prompt writing challenge Takhayyal.

Arabic for Imagine, Takhayyal is a means to get inspired and spark our writing once more.

It just so happens that this week we have Friday, 13 February AND Valentine's Day on Saturday, 14 February. Accordingly, I'll post several pictures so you can get inspired by either event or both.

General guidelines:

·        Feel free to combine the pictures or use them separately.

·      Your post can be in English or Arabic, prose, poetry, short story, flash fiction; you name it and write it.

·        No nudity, violence, and/or abuse

·        Word count: No minimum, but 300 should be enough so others can have the chance to comment on various works (not going to be too strict about this bit)

·   Leave the link to your post in comments below OR post your piece as REPLY to this post

·        Your piece MUST be inspired in some way or other by the above picture(s)

·        Multiple entries allowed

·    It is not required but it is a kind and encouraging gesture to comment on others pieces.

Let's IMAGINE!