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Category: Flash Fiction

Entries & Topics, Flash Fiction Posted on12th January 201829th January 2018

Flash Fiction Friday Prompt #1

The First Flash Fiction Friday Prompt! This is the first prompt with Calliope’s Prisoner’s weekly flash fiction Friday. Each Friday I will post a topic, […] Read More

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Flash Fiction, Writing Journal Posted on12th January 201829th January 2018

What is Flash Fiction?

Well, what is it? Flash fiction is extremely short pieces of writing. Some form of development (character or plot) needs to take place for the […] Read More

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Novel
Orpheus and Eurydice (1862) by Edward Poynter
How to use Latin
A Priestess of Bacchus, by John William Godward (1890)
Rewriting and asking for help
Consulting the Oracle (1884) by John William Waterhouse
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Forbidden Books, By Alexander Mark Rossi (1897).
Using Latin
Saint Cecilia (1895), by John William Waterhouse
The Zaparozhye Cossacks Writing a Mocking Letter to the Turkish Sultan *oil on canvas *358 × 203 cm *signed b.c.: И.Репин 1880-91
The Zaparozhye Cossacks Writing a Mocking Letter to the Turkish Sultan *oil on canvas *358 × 203 cm *signed b.c.: И.Репин 1880-91
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By Marie Alexandre Valentin Sellier (19/20th century) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Books
Still life with a lighted candle (1627) by Pieter Claesz
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Man Writing a Letter by Gabriël Metsu [Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]
Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee (1884)
Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee (1884) from WikiMedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DickseeRomeoandJuliet.jpg
Deus Ex Machina
Oedipus at Colonus (1788), by Jean-Antione-Theodore Giroust
Beholder
Behold the Beholder!
after Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel, late 16th century (1533-1534)
after Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel, late 16th century (1533-1534)
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Concert of Birds, by Frans Snyders (Attr.) (1629-1657) [Public Domain]
Unusual Latin terms in English Writing
The Tease (1901) by John William Godward
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The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1533)
Patreon Launch
The Muses, Urania and Calliope, by Simon Vouet [Public Domain]
heraldry
With Copper Plate Lowered (c. 1651), attributed to Bartholomeus van Bassen
woman reading a book
Antique Beauty by Stepan Bakalovich
Wanderer above the sea of fog, by Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the sea of fog, by Caspar David Friedrich [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Gather your party
Gather your party
Dungeons & Dragons
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Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh [4512243112421514243341335331453324512253321125231545311314453234124245422]
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Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus, John William Waterhouse (1900) [Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]
By Johannes Vermeer - Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160013
By Johannes Vermeer – Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160013
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Brief, by Adolf Eberle [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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