Friko's World

Fully autumn soon, the nights are drawing in, there’s a chill in the air and the leaves of the Japanese ornamental cherry show just t...

Resurrection Reunion 2, 1945, Sir Stanley Spencer The Mag 192 Provided by Tess Kincaid. Many years ago, I received an invitation ...

photo Agustin Berocal Tess Kincaid’s Magpie 177 In the days when people undertook long journeys overland on foot a goldsmith and a ...

Chilmark Hay, 1951 by Thomas Hart Benton Tess Kincaid's Magpie Prompt No. 125 Once upon a time there was an honest peasant w...

Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tale Prompt No. 96 Hel --- lo there, little one!  Hello? What's your name then, handsome ...

Tess Kincaid's MAGPIE PROMPT No. 95 On the banks of the River of Woe, Forsaken by the gods, I await your return from Hades, O Charon. ...

Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tale No. 92 For other responses, click on the prompt. Once upon a time, in a far distant kingdom, there lived ...

Tess Kincaid's Magpie Prompt No. 89 It was still dark outside, a thin shard of a paler shade of black was beginning to creep round th...

Tess Kincaid's  Magpie No. 84 Woman In The Rain The land was burning. There had been no rain for the whole of an exceptionally hot su...

The Snake Charmer - Henri Rousseau Tess Kincaid's Magpie No. 83 There once was a child whose mother gave her a bowl of milk and brea...

The Revenant Andrew Wyeth - 1949 Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tale No. 82 The Rev. E. Nant  had enjoyed his funeral tremendously. His wife ...

WILLOW'S MAGPIE No. 75 Mars and Vulcan, rough boys playing rough games, riding their bikes, shrieking, bells clanging  and brake...

Jinksy challenged me to write a romantic tale to accompany her computer artwork for her new prompt In Tandem . How could I refuse. Long,...

WILLOW'S MAGPIE No. 74 The keeper of the mask museum had turned off the lights, locked the door and left. Every night, the masks, he...

the one-and-a-half-eyed is Queen. WILLOW's MAGPIE No. 70 A ruff, a ruff, my Queen's realm for the other half! (Perhaps half a r...

WILLOW's MAGPIE No. 69 Alessandro Botticelli scratched his head; his visitor, the mighty Lorenzo de Medici had left his workshop onl...

WILLOW's MAGPIE No. 63 Kaleidoscope: A toy consisting of a tube containing small,  brightly coloured fragments of glass etc. and ...

WILLOW'S MAGPIE No. 59 Sheepishly,  he crept into the flat, having first taken off his shoes outside the door.  Hesitant,  with infi...

WILLOW'S MAGPIE No. 56 Count Dracula of Transylvania, Drackie to his friends, had had great fun tormenting his English visitor, t...

WILLOW'S MAGPIE NO. 55 The orange and lemon were lying side by side in the fruit bowl. There wasn't much to do, except lie aroun...