Dale offers the prompt “first signs of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I can’t tell which season it is where I am now except by where the sun sets in the west.
Regardless what it is actually doing the sun keeps moving across the horizon back and forth throughout the year.
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Once upon a time, after the lad-wolf incident, Save The Wolf Foundation got a few votes too many in a low turnout election (except for all the dead people who miraculously voted) for seats on the town council. As the new majority they immediately demanded that a statue be set up to honor the big bad wolf who was brutally, but deliciously, barbequed.
This plan didn’t fly well with the majority of the (living) town folk – like maybe 100% of them – who now regretted not voting because they figured no one in his right mind would vote for Save The Wolf (as indeed no one in his right mind did). Threatened to be ousted in the next election – which would be watched like a hawk – Save The Wolf compromised enough to permit the town council to commission a statue of the lad with the big bad wolf chewing his leg.
After the statue was erected the town became a notorious tourist attraction drawing visitors from far and wide who wanted to see the statue that no one in his right mind would have erected. Anyone who could find a way to profit from this unexpected popularity by delaying the tourists’ stay with some lucrative lad-wolf amusement lived happily ever after.
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Denise offers “fly” as the prompt word for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “the path to…” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Just some images of the path along the beach. There is sand, shells and birds. There is even an umbrella.
Keep walking. The path to the beach leads to more beach.
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All of these limericks were originally posted to either Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick or her Writing Prompts or derived from those posts during the month of February 2026.
Crazy Or Calm
“Are you crazy?” Not yet. I’m just calm
like a rash that is itching for balm
like a thought I won’t think
like a word with a wink
like a heart beating true in your palm.
Prompt word: “calm” February 2, 2026
Flying
“I am flying. I’m trying. OK?”
said the bird to his mama one day.
Then she jumped in the nest.
Pushed the chick out. The rest
is now history. He’s flying. OK?
Prompt word: “flying” February 4, 2026
Poisoned Apple
There once was a queen who thought she
was the loveliest queen that could be
till Snow White came along.
Though that apple was wrong,
the queen’s gone, right or wrong, thankfully.
Prompt word: “apple” February 9, 2026
Talking While Driving Is Driving Me Nuts
I could drive, but I’d much rather walk.
I could fly, if I could, like a hawk.
Since I know that a lie
makes a mess, I will try
not to lie, but beware when I talk.
Prompt word: “drive” February 11, 2026 (modified)
Deep Thoughts On Dim Light
The dim light wasn’t bright as was right.
Were it bright I would dim it at night,
but it’s day, as we say
when dark night goes away,
when the sun that’s not dim is quite bright.
Prompt word: “dim” February 16, 2026
Unrighteous Memories
Those odd memories refuse to stop
like a judge seeking justice on top
of your case every day.
All your lawyer need say,
He’s now righteous. So, let the case drop.
Prompt word: “memories” February 18, 2026
The Worry Wart Time Machine
All my worries are worrying fast.
They have cast into now what was past,
but today is today
and the past’s gone away
so this worrisome present can’t last.
Prompt word: “cast” February 23, 2026 (slightly modified)
Lacking A Taste For Mushy Stuff
So I told him it’s better to write
a love poem than whine through the night.
But his taste wasn’t for
all that mushy stuff or
he got wrong what he wouldn’t get right.
Prompt word: “taste” February 25, 2026
Once upon a time when big bad was being barbecued Save The Wolf Foundation organized a massive protest. Almost ten people showed up each flashing a sign for cameras to catch. They screamed, yelled and whined. Then they stood in line to get some of that yummy wolf barbecue.
Save The Wolf had often been diagnosed as “terminally miserable”. Today their taste buds protested by deciding to live happily ever after.
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Denise offers “sign” as the word to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “what’s flowering where you are” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I did find an unusual white blossom recently. The first two photos show it.
The last photo is of a palm tree that I have not seen flowering, but I like the shape of the leaves.
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Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf who liked to eat. Big bad ate this and big bad ate that. Once big bad ate a lad who cried “Wolf! Wolf!” even when big bad was minding its own business.
Eventually, like always, big bad got hungry again and wondered what might be on the menu besides the garbage he’s been eating on the ground.
It’s surprising, but true, that ordinary town folk do smarten up given enough time and motivation and this time when big bad returned they decided to give it a taste of its own medicine by trapping it and – gulp – eating it in spite of protests organized by Save The Wolf Foundation.
When the town folk did as they planned to do and big bad got his just deserts, they all lived happily ever after except for the protestors who would have been unhappy no matter what happened, but that’s another tale I probably won’t bother to tell, although I just might.
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Denise offers “ground” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
In case anyone is wondering, as I was, there is no actual Save The Wolf Foundation. I searched for one and AI told me to stop wasting my time: The search results do not contain specific information about an organization named “Save The Wolf Foundation”.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 