@geofflepard

Novellist of #humour, blogger, walker, cricketlover, optimistic cook, mutt-nut, hole-digger, unreliable reader

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Sally Georgina Cronin@sgc5813 Dec 2023
Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2023 - #Crime #Mystery Patty L. Fletcher, #Murder #Paranormal Richard Dee, #Teen #YA #Coming of Age Thomas Lopinski, #Shortstories Geoff Le Pard smorgasbordinvitation.wordpr… via @sgc58 @geofflepard @ThomasLopinski @RichardDockett1 @Bubbalee04
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Gloria McBreen@GloriaMcB5 Dec 2023
#blogtour I'm promoting this wonderful short story #anthology this week! Stories to suit all tastes from around the world! #TuesdayBook Authors include ME, @MarshaIngrao @HughRoberts05 @geofflepard @Annecdotist @Wonderwomandebz wp.me/p8IkgC-1rl

Blog Tour Day One – Story Chat – Short Stories and Ruminations

So, Marsha has taken these stories and put them together, along with some of the comments made by the Story Chat participants, to create this fabulous little book! #stories #reading

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Microcosms Fic@MicrocosmsFic24 Sep 2023
MC 208 Winners Community Picks @steveweave71 and @lozzawriting Honorable mentions @lozzawriting, Lily Finch, @geofflepard, @OnPunsnNeedles, and @jaim_ee_bree Judge's Pick @geofflepard  Congrats, all! Read their winning entries here: microcosmsfic.com/2023/09/23… #amwriting #vss
MICROCOSMS 208 Winners Community Picks Laura Cooney & Steve Lodge Judge's Pick (and prize winner) Geoff Le Pard microcosmsfic.com

ALT MICROCOSMS 208 Winners Community Picks Laura Cooney & Steve Lodge Judge's Pick (and prize winner) Geoff Le Pard microcosmsfic.com

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Microcosms Fic@MicrocosmsFic27 Jun 2023
NEW! 100-Word Microfiction Contest - MC 100micro1. $100 prize. RT before July 1 for a chance to win a free entry. microcosmsfic.com/100micro1
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Microcosms Fic@MicrocosmsFic4 Jun 2023
It's time! MC 194 is upon us. microcosmsfic.com/2023/06/04… #WritingCommunity #flashfiction #microfiction #writingcontests #CallingAllFlashDogs
MICROCOSMS 194 Prompts: Fly on the Wall / Past or Future / Action OR Turtle / Jewelry Store / Poem+ $25 prize (free to enter)! Come write a story in 300 words or fewer. Fun and free! microcosmsfic.com

ALT MICROCOSMS 194 Prompts: Fly on the Wall / Past or Future / Action OR Turtle / Jewelry Store / Poem+ $25 prize (free to enter)! Come write a story in 300 words or fewer. Fun and free! microcosmsfic.com

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We Have Cubs! geofflepard.com/2023/05/17/w…

We Have Cubs!

Watched by the Heads..

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Garden Mid May 2023 #garden geofflepard.com/2023/05/16/g…

Garden Mid May 2023 #garden

It’s very green but we’re still lacking the depths of colour. Still there’s time… I’ll just gallery the pictures for you to scroll through And there’s Dog and th…

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Cornered #writephoto geofflepard.com/2023/05/14/c…

Cornered #writephoto

This week’s prompt is ‘The light’s rubbish. He looks like celery.’ Pa Vinchy threw his paintbrush onto his palette and kicked the easel. ‘Bugger off!’ The easel hopped away, rubbing its left side, …

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Secret Abuse #99wordstories geofflepard.com/2023/05/13/s…

Secret Abuse #99wordstories

This week’s #carrotranch prompt is May 9, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about two who cankeep a secret. Is the secret between them or is one keeping a secret from the …

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Disestablished #limerick geofflepard.com/2023/05/12/d…

Disestablished #limerick

Limerick time, this week with a prompt of junk Young Jimmy was in a foul funkWhen told to get rid of his junk.’It’s really quite roughTo get rid of my stuff;I’ll have to become a …

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Extraction Reaction #blogbattle geofflepard.com/2023/05/11/e…

Extraction Reaction #blogbattle

This month’s #blogbattle prompt is Extract Extraction Reaction ‘What do we have, today?’ Guy Nocollogist, dentist to the stars, pulled on his Dior rubbers and smeared the antiseptic wipe (Bug Death…

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Another Useless Sacrifice, Perkins? #writephoto geofflepard.com/2023/05/10/a…

Another Useless Sacrifice, Perkins? #writephoto

This week’s #writephoto prompt is Lou Tenant and May Jerr admired their handy work. Normally these doyens of the paperclip counting brigades would have eschewed hard work and anything that might ge…

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Ah Vicky geofflepard.com/2023/05/09/a…

Ah Vicky

Still trucking…

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The Right To Protest #writephoto geofflepard.com/2023/05/08/t…

The Right To Protest #writephoto

Bit late this week, but this prompt led to this contemporary piece The Right To Protest ‘What do you think you’re doing sonny?’ Constable Jimmy Strength crouched down to the same height as the chic…

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When You’re A Heel You’ll End Up in Hell #99wordstories geofflepard.com/2023/05/07/w…

When You’re A Heel You’ll End Up in Hell #99wordstories

Another prompt from the Carrot Ranch May 1, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about high water. Hell can be involved, or not. Is high water a new drink? A crisis in nature…

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Royal Events Wot I’ve Known geofflepard.com/2023/05/06/r…

Royal Events Wot I’ve Known

This weekend we have a Coronation. First of its kind in decades and another example of why the world thinks of us as Disney with embroidery. My parents, with many other thousands, watched the last …

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An Atom A Day #poem #poetry geofflepard.com/2023/05/05/a…

An Atom A Day #poem #poetry

At school they said: ‘Geoffrey, Be whatever you want to be. There’s an infinite range of possibilities in me. Which must be true as I’ve itemised How atomised I am. I have 6.5 octillion…

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Life, Death And Other Characters geofflepard.com/2023/05/04/l…

Life, Death And Other Characters

A while ago some of you kindly read a short story and gave me some great comments. It will feature in my latest book of short fiction, to be released soon under the above title. It’s a mixtur…

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Hot Hot Hot #limerick geofflepard.com/2023/05/03/h…

Hot Hot Hot #limerick

This week’s prompt is face and I’m up onto my soap box First I wrote this For all those running the human raceAnd remaining intent on upping their pace:If you don’t stop bleatingThat we’re not over…

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