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the tale of the rusalka

Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to answer a question. People have been asking what’s going to happen next in the story of the steampunk bear so… here you go… part five of the story… The ravens, carrying the steampunk bear and the mouse, landed on the shores of the seventh mountain. They […]

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the selkie and the siren

Today’s prompt for the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to share five blogs or websites that I think my readers would enjoy. Which I will do. But first… part four of the steampunk bear’s story The seven ravens with their passengers flew all night. They saw the lights extinguished on the second mountain. As they flew

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dark times and a steam punk bear…

Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to share a song lyric or phrase that has meaning to me. My song lyric comes from “No Place Like Home,” by Stephen Schwartz and Cynthia Erivo, which was part of the movie, “Wicked: For Good.” It it’s about the value of a space, of one’s homeland,

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A bear, a mouse, and seven ravens…

Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about my favorite number and why that number is my favorite. My favorite number is nine. It’s a magical number. If you multiply anything by nine (except for zero, which eats all numbers), with the result always being zero), the answer will either add up

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bears, bears, bears

Today’s prompt was to answer questions that you, my wonderful readers, ask over and over again. I have to admit that no one has asked questions, but several readers have expressed a fondness for Bearnacle Bear and his friends. So, today, I am going to tell you how the steam punk bear became mangled. One

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A window into your imagination

Today is the first day of the second Ultimate Blogging Challenge of the year. It’s also week thirteen of Inktober 52, and it’s day 39 of the 100-day art project. The theme for day 39 is “what you take away.” Here are some ideas of things that you could remove that you wouldn’t miss: comparing

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from the journal of Maisie the mouse

Today, our small group of mice are safe on a little island that we have yet to name. We haven’t been here long. Maybe a week or two. A sweet young man who some of our friends met at the zoo helped us by ferrying us to this little island. I will tell our story

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Bearnacle’s little boat

After Bearnacle returned from his magic adventure that took him beyond the stars, he began learning how to build boats. His dream was to be the captain of a great sailing ship, but the bears had no such boats. Only the humans had those large ships with many sails. When Bearnacle was a cub, his

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The tale of the mustachioed man

Part four from last time: Wolf walked on. Just then, he got very hungry. He wondered if he would feel hungry while sleeping. Abruptly, he woke up. He walked into the kitchen, where his mother was weeping over an onion. Or maybe something else??? prompts: skeletal, lesson, vacant, award “I had a nightmare last night,”

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