FEB 12, 2012 from teffom@writing.com SNOW BLEW ACROSS highway downturns, adjacent ridges, hitting here at the house last night, at last. Surrounding Residents grew anxious earlier, worrying we'd lose our water table without a winter. Hey Voice. Hope you can use this link for ----- Amazon.com KINDLE STORE; MARY MOFFETT EBOOKS. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&fiel... Where: THE RIPPER RETURNS TO WHITECHAPEL COURT is free for lend... [More]

A WORD ABOUT LOVE by Mrs. Mary Moffett, Loudmouth ST. VALENTINE’S DAY celebrations used to include homemade gifts when the children were under our roof. This could be doll clothes cut, sewn from red silk, cupcakes with pink icing, sewing machine made hearts which kinda last a while. Or maybe searching seed catalogs for cutouts to construct giant cards signed Mom & Dad, or addressed to us, made by our protégées. When we lost Mr Moffett in the autumn of 2010, we suffered at ... [More]

FEB BLOG CHAL STARTS NOW FEB 1 PROMPT: “Define Blogging” from teffom@writing.com Listen up, audience. Can’t you recall a time before cyber space, Internet Cafe forums or crazy crass equilvancy of mass communication ala contemporary blog spots all over the place? The latter hitting yon cloud airways aka Cyber Space as early as 1999. (‘94? Sure originally sacrosanct as a movement on web TV.) Instead of a weekly columnist to read inside a neatly folded... [More]

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Mary+Moffett+ebooks&x=11&y=19 BOSTON HARBOR'S SEQUESTERED TEA BY MARY MOFFETT http://www.amazon.com/HARBORS-SEQUESTERED-VAMPIRE-CHRONICLES-ebook/dp/B0062Z1BK0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328218476&sr=1-1... [More]

TEFF ON PROULX ... ROCKING THE HOUSE BY MARY MOFFETT Reading books before the movie comes out always affords me a thrill discovering MANY well-written, initial stories according to published authors. Well, content for the hardcover @ hand, shared with over a million other people....certainly worth discussion, of course satisfies genre or information cravings for one & all. Before PRACTICAL MAGIC became a movie, I’d already read this gem from Alice Hoffman & suggeste... [More]

DEC 28, 2011, COPY OF FANDANGO INTRO PAST &&&& Editors note: Housekeeping, Winter ret up --- today ... KINDLE READERS!!! WEBBERS, WELCOME TO FANDANGO! Please stay tuned ... UPDATES: TEFF'S ON KINDLE!!! (102) FICTION COMING OUT THRU DEC 2011 --- Including traditional short stories & flash fiction dating from Feb 2005! To Sept 2011! Fandango update spells excitement in the air. All when Caldron Time enters the mountain range. Meanwhile ... Please accept an hones... [More]

Looking for scary reads during the crazy month of Shocktober? Then look no farther than popular, author, Kathy Reichs whose splendidly crafted mysteries span over a decade worth of finely tuned novels from her postmortem coffers. Yes, Ms Reichs' first novel, "a forensic thriller" titled: DEJA DEAD made the scene in 1997, acclaimed as a "prestigious Ellis Award for Best First Novel" upon debut. Naturally, it goes beyond better, for as we know character, Dr. Temperance Bren... [More]

LABOR DAYS PROMPT for SEPT 5 deals with a deserted half of a former relationship, in command of accepting or rejecting the culprit whom broke his/her heart. Yeah, one lover asks another to be taken back into their couple-hood syndrome which went before. Nice premise, heart & soul of an often read ploy inclusive of Romance Genre. To answer this prompt via this blog shall return to a short story of the same title ROMANCE ON THE BAY OF FUNDY circa/crt 2005. Now available @ http://www... [More]

CAULDRON TIME 2011 BLEW into town Fri last. Below find TEFF on TEFFs fiction. Hey, Jersey Julie D, thanks for asking. "TITLE: ANALYZE THIS, VAMPIRES! BY MRS MARY MOFFETT SUPPOSE for the sake of clarity vampires are blood suckers. Blood suckers as in Wall Street/ Banker Bailouts (including TARP shields covering up both 2008 & 2009) suck dry the US Treasury. Now, mix and stir average greedy persons. Here greed doesn't center on greedy for fame, greedy for attention, but ins... [More]

BREAKING NEWS --- aka MRS MOFFETT. Here they are ---> http://www.amazon.com/dp/BOO5IYFGVO http://www.amazon.com/dp/BOO5IWDIYU TEFFOM@WRTING.COM ---- Mz TEFFY!!! TAKING KINDLE WITH SUBMISSIONS CHRONOLOGICALLY written, produced, held for ransom money (sales) Since 2005. !!!! TO TWENTY-ELEVEN RECENTLY COMPOSED. SALES SAIL ON!!!. FIND TRADITIONAL SHORT STORIES!!! GENRE TAPPING!!! ALA TEFF!!! Bring it on!! AH, imagine the competition. This close to the open... [More]

WEBTV!! Oh, Hell is right. Ed. Note: Dear Readers: Please SEE: 5 W's explanation at the end of this FICTION FANDANGO, A WRITER'S BLOG at the end of this blog entry. Oh my gawd, gaz-zooks, webbers. We-uns paid our bills religiously to save our own hides aka our cyber space connection, to moreorless hold onto near the end of a decent run, despite constant refusals, rewritten rules, etc --- from said msn.com, which now owns webtv since (?) 2007 or 2008. Sunova, those endear... [More]

Hello August 2011 Greetings to Authors Discussion CLUB! Welcome Audience! For the sake of clarity, while writing a bit better in the mawning early .. this author spent half the night mentally planning an otherwise open entry/ inclusive of to whom it may concern re: the state of Planet Earth. Coming from a wonderful visit last night with friends at a nearby establishment, where they grow all their own food, can same, and these talented folks even make jellies & pickles .. one should... [More]

So much for honest critique in a place far removed from LIT. How can peeps actually rely on ADOL LIT IF they be adulthood worthy? Guesses as a novice writer once run to oddball like temptations to play hardball RE: ON WRITING, ON WRITING STYLE, TRANSITIONS OF WRITING LEVELS BEEN THERE, PASSED TESTS JOURNALISM ENG COMP LIBRARIANSHIP MASS COMMUNICATION BY THE CORPORATION SPELLS DEATH TO DEMOCRACY Things brew in England over cups of Earl Gray where a tabloid scandal involving R... [More]

DEC 14, TWENTY ELEVEN EDIT .. Below you shall find a time .... When being silly encases Talking to oneself about One's own secluded life & environ. Inside this blog TEFF climbs her writer's ladder, Stepping across A bevy of gnomes. At conclusion watch for the mag TEFF holds in hand & recommends to all intellectualized readers. This blog from Aug 8 ... starts here ... Helluva silly day, wake up set to plug into the netetsco. Phone jack in hand --- asking yeah... [More]

Date: Sun, Jul 31, 2011, 9:11am Reading two articles, Sun morning, July 31, RE: Congressional Debate concerning raising debt ceilings amounts to little or no information from The New York Times base. Of course, these hit national airways via news.mobile courtesy of msn.com. Microsoft Network (msn) purchased webtv a few years ago. Thass accurate information from a webber. Me. Now, first NYT article (since defunct within an hour later) came with this title: NYT: It's a mad, m... [More]

Look for Earl Pablo Zacarias --- 30 DAY BLOG CHALL Prompt/ July 30/ Love @ first sight/ impromptu or ideal vacation MONTANA SUNSET By Mrs Mary Moffett Part 2: ONE MONTANA EVENING Suffice, heatstroke during a Montana heat wave is a cruel mistress. So thinking, Mrs Lesley Monroe hightails from her house as soon as her sons enter a courtyard wrapping back enclaves of the Monroe family's Ponderosa style, ranch house manse. "Mother, there's no sign of... [More]

TEFF prompts: July 29 For 30 DAY BLOG CHALLENGE BLOG including: summer /// mysterious stranger MONTANA SUNSET by Mrs Mary Moffett crt/ July 29, 2011 North of Lewistown in a place called Fergus a cruel amount of solar invasion sparks a series of unquenchable forest fires ranging eastward in a criss -cross pattern searing plains and forest in the line of destruction. Montana residents were indeed cooked to the core by an overwhelming heat wave in the summer of 2011. ... [More]

Early to rise -- okay ... hold up a sec. Now --- let's see --- July 28 Prompt for From: Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Oh my --- "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong (stronger) to live as well as think." Maybe July will never end. Maybe we're stuck with it, this record breaking month when a heat wave so bad (last week) alerted unsuspecting US cities to expect 115 degrees under the shade of global warming. While we understand escape routes, know ... [More]

During Earl Pablo Zacarias' 30 DAY BLOG CHALLENGE -- members of blogging group/ VOICE OVER OR MORE -- met with a choice for our July 11th prompt including: 1. Gas Fracking, 2. Mountaintop Removal (MTR) or 3. "Taking down the Xmas tree in July." These prompts were from Story time! Title: DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS TREE .. RENEWS THE SOIL Each December many of our neighbors place trees in the alleys for the trashman to discard for them. Some people don't buy l... [More]

Today thanking --- Mr. Earl Pablo Zacarias, who created FRONTLINERS, who posted a 31-Day Blog Challenge in Dec 2008, whom hosted and brought back to life the prompters who ruled/ blogged participated in THANK YOU!!! OF: Yesterday's blog, felt like I was still there in that small Library working, shelving books, etc, while picking novels for my own weekly reads. Alas, on a bi-monthly basis, when the swing of life sets me to escape Moffett Estates, visiting at least three... [More]

Putting this in blue, hold on to your hats whiners, don't give a frack if it is too bloody bright --- as a signature print bold blue sparks off Earl Zacarias's first major creation --- namely FRONTLINERS the same year made the scene --- oh back in 2008. Well July 26 Prompt for From "Describe your favourite fairytale, myth or legend from your childhood. Discuss why it?s your favourite and how it has influenced your beliefs and morals throughout your l... [More]

FICTION FANDANGO, A WRITER'S BLOG ........ .........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm aaaaaaaaabbbbbbcccccccccccc ddddddddeeeeee fffffggg Today's prompt for 30 DAY BLOG CHALLENGE is one of those rare moments when creativity takes a turn//// The following is a complete work of fiction. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>... [More]

July 23 Prompt --- Write about what you think about that moment before falling asleep. From Little Louigi for Now, gee Willy Winkers, nights vary anticipating morning ahead as mopey heads hit thy pillows. Same for moi. Last night, Friday July 22, a wild guess is this sleeper wasn't alone pondering implications of our current heat wave. Prior, without a lick of sense ventured out to shop about eight pm. Sure, guy behind the counter says it hit 106 degrees in Reading, PA. Holy ... [More]

Prompt for From our fearless leader, the King of Blog Challenges --- JULY 21 -- Brief version -- Nothing to do --- try self improvement. Paula La Rue here from Alabama Courier News Times, visiting Fandango from Creosote, Alabama. Hellow the HOUSE!!! It is most unlikely that Teff shall ever fully recover promptly from an ordeal brought upon her majesty by two usurpers to the throne. Well, the saying goes: You can pick your friends but not your relatives. Well, needless, my poor ... [More]

@ blog challenger Jacob supplies a quote from Edward R Murrow --- "Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts." For info on Mr Murrow go to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx llllllllllllll xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx llllllllllllllll <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Yeah, tis here, just want youse to open this entry from FICTION FANDANGO, A WRITER&... [More]

See for Prompt: RE: Past Relationship ... From KristyMouse. Derby's the name, writing's my game. Straight up from the South, fighting vertigo while living under the same roof as the bronco busting one. Yeah, TEFF! Since, Teff's still missing in action ... Derringer here, filling in. You may learn about me by taking a look here: In order to find myself inside a true loving relationship is not the least bit easy. I'm not exactly what the world often refers ... [More]

RE: A prompt about the sea @ Yummy are: scallops, haddock, lobster, mullett, sea trout, oysters, clams and SHRIMP!! On Emerald Isle, NC one finds shrimp sellers lining sides of highways where they've chosen a certain spot to pop up their signature yellow and white striped awnings. Below, one finds barrels of shrimp on ice, freshly caught. This is the best shrimp around. Since British Petroleum's terrible oil leak in April, 2010 sadly enough a boon arrives for the second ye... [More]

The word random to me is one that aint necessarily over used but instead covers today's prompt @ Yes, when TEFF used to give writing advice, sound as Bogue Sound an integral part of the International Waterway, said random author-to-author hints --- kindly delivered like milk at the door, in hopes of adding the slightest (minuscule) helping hand to a community of writers which is much like a gigantic forum. Spontaneous subjects on writing well birthed and categorized via NL among recip... [More]

July 17 Prompt: ARE YOU A SKIRT OR A PANTS PERSON? TEFF up early -- Garden wish for rain ... One of the most beautiful sights in the world to this crazy dame is a man in a kilt. Generally, each September a local, country area boasts a Celtic Fest. Men turn out in droves to enjoy Celtic Music and many wear traditional garb. Nothing like balled knee caps, fine calves to turn my head sideways on a crisp autumn day filled with essence of ethnicity and glorious talent. The beauty of... [More]

Guy, like me's already awake when night surrounds bring on owls a-hootin and a-flappin below vivid moonbeams. Gave Teff a holler, she's taking this one, but bitching how I-net (SE) searchdotdot//googleywwwwhew ...nonresearch/pisspoor/searchzines aint worth a damn anymore. Since, this reporter just returned home from a night on the town ... Hey Ladies, Derby' a dedicated bachelor, without a doubt. Yeah, a Southern Stud, bar none. So before being dragged into vegetable patches aga... [More]

here --- Hey! Blog Challenge World, slipping into the driver's seat @ Mrs Moffett regrets she's relaxing at the moment so let the new penname stand. Leaving the Alabama Courier News Times for a few weeks vacae up here in the mountains seems just my cup of cold sweet tea. This morning dawn met a pleasant sixty-one degrees. Outside, we witness gold finches gobbling seeds from blooming catnip. Which reminds me to bring TEFF's tea to her since she's awaiting breakfast in ... [More]

Editor's note: Deleting yesterday's post on poor & lazy writing. Shall air such views inside comforts of my living room, Apologies for deviating from Earl's blog out path. OF: poor one may only shiver pondering what they'll end up with in a future NL. blogging this month for Ashley supplies July 13's prompt: RE: Happiness -- Story time --- THE GUY WHO TIRES TO TAKE IT WITH HIM ... A very long line approaches the Pearly Gates. St. Peter, busy inter... [More]

Maybe, Connie's pleasantly evoking a trip downa shore, or opting to purport a scare among bathers who venture unescorted into the realm of what this author once called the deeps. Well, you see when we lived on Emerald Isle, the Atlantic became our neighbor. We heard her roar at night, shrill in bright morning's dawn as waves crept about the circular arch which was our island. Not a daring type myself, eventually a twenty minute dunking on a calm day fit the bill for cooling off. ... [More]

July 10 -- Prompt "Who are the authors that inspired your work?" from BACKGROUND for this author -- In 1999, Miss Teffy seriously undertook writing fiction, a step away from journalism which I studied and used for several local newspapers .. ahem .. oh lordy now .. way back in the late Seventies. Even then, dear audience, controversy ruled with or without Gonzo or Yellow Journalism. However, certain advertisers didn't always agree with editorial content, so less and less... [More]

July 9, Saturday prompt from Proseperous Snow during December 21, 2012 is supposed to be the end of the world. Do you think it will it be a cataclysmic shift of Earth itself, a transformative shift in human consciousness, or something else? from group blogger: THE DEMISE OF SPECIFIC PLACES on Planet Earth is an ongoing topic which should concern all parents, students, individuals and consumers who use utilities in their humble abodes. Take the guy on the corner, whom seems to ... [More]

Happy Birthday to our thirty year old blog member from --- where all the best bloggers meet; this is the title of of our brand new group. July 9 Prompt from Prompt:. Since today is my birthday, my prompt is this: If you could give yourself a call on a past birthday of yours, what would you tell yourself? 'Tis one of those rare moments when one might chuckle imagining phoning oneself. Since one unforgettable rule of journalism is to never use first... [More]

Blogging for: July 7, 2011 Prompt Music can be inspirational. Has music ever inspired you to write or to create? If so, what music inspires you the most? Any particular song(s) or artist(s)? If not, what inspires you to write? My roommate is a musician and a relation and a great kid. He's a gifted musician, plays an accordion,* base & acoustic guitars, a piano keyboard. Yup, lot's of music when he's home. Which is fine by me, since I am a listener who basic... [More]

Writing for: July 6 prompt from "If life had a "redo" or "rewind" button would you use? If so, what situation comes to mind? If not, why?" This one's a little tricky. Yesterday @ this desk oh how temptation for truth telling, soul searching mode was born again ... as current, heartbreaking troubles surfaced like a dead fish caught in a polluted estuary. Once you meet a psychopath there's no turning back. Life as you thought you knew it is then... [More]

Prompt: "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. This is my religion." Isn't there an attribute to Abe Lincoln here for July 5th's prompt? Now, as far as freedom of speech goes, where I come from and the places I've lived ... suffice --- criticism is a part of speech. Insults, complaints, confession, compliments, questions -- all parts of speech. Sorry, let's say TEFF's hails from Missouri, people. I honestly (and yeah there s... [More]

Prompt Subject: Legal Gay Marriage TO TELL YOU THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH, PREJUDICE AGAINST RACE OR ethnic origin is not the same as discussions re: same sex marriage. However, here in the states such talks provoke waves of discontent among the gay, lesbian, homosexual community onsite or off. Best avoided like a midget on roller skates headed your way in a drug store aisle. Yes, we have LIT, movies, spin media, two sides and none of us can forget that the great actress Rosie ... [More]

July 3, Sunday ... Prompt --- From: "Every country has its prestigious traditions. Some of those are our favorites. In the community you live now enumerate the good traditions you and your family are anxious to celebrate." Leaving our quotation marks below, commemorating one opening phase of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION* ONE IF BY HORSE by Mrs. Mary Moffett/ teffom@writing.com This tale is dedicated to one of the greatest American protesters of all time: Mr. ... [More]

July 2nd Prompt --- "Ponder the spectre of yourself as one human being in the over six billion people on Earth." Ah, step one ... "We are so minute as to be nonexistent. And yet, we have the power to visualize, to imagine the entirety of the cosmos." Center of prompt, also a comment of sorts. Step 2. "In your journal, write about the paradox of being both microscopic and immense." Looky here, Earl, Miss TEFFY is far from immense. Certainly,... [More]

TWENTY ELEVEN "Or not ... Don't expect dumb down per researchable writing topics --- not going to approach without allegories, fluency, style, parody & opinion. Quasi journalism style. FIND ALL AT FANDANGO within yon here & now, or daily as it suits. Never narrowly seeking only those readers stuck in a rut. IF this pertains to TO WHOMS who approach ever so correctly ... grab your seat, dearies. Let's all assume differences are apparent. FANDANGO seldom cadges a sleepy audience ... [More]

July 1 Prompt: "We are now in the mid year of 2011. Look back from the start of this year to present and share your glory days." Admittedly, the word glory threw me for a loop. Thus, hauling out my favorite desk reference, a five pound treasure, copyright --1985 from Prentice Hall Press. Namely: WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD THESAURUS informs, p. 318 --- glory carries a definition me: "renown --- as in "honor, distinction, reputation, fame." However, glory r... [More]

April 28/ '11 E-mail message From: Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 9:53am Fwd: Frack/ GUARDIAN/ UK Fossil fuel firms use 'biased' study in massive gas lobbying push | Environment | The Guardian Address: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/20/fossil-fuel-lobbying-shale-gas Thu, Apr 28, 2011, 7:10am To:    Frack/ GUARDIAN/ UK Pennsylvania: the 'ground zero' of the US shale gas drilling boom | Environment | The Guardian Address: ... [More]

SOURCES related to April 2011 NL --- Re: Earthquake & Tsunami/Japan/ Mar 10, 2011 Title: "Time Convert The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Japan ? Tokyo vs Australia ? Victoria ? Melbourne --- " @ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=3&day=11&year=2011&hour=14&min=45&sec=0&p1=248&p2=152 Title: "Radioactive rainwater recorded eastern US - MSNBC Articles" @ http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=42301458 Title: F... [More]

EARTH DAY 2011: APRIL 22 NEWSLETTER Hey Club: Subjects for April 2011's CLUB NL are as follows: 1. A Word on WHEN/ WHERE/ WHAT: Part of Journalism's FIVE W's* (When? Oh, today. See, just messing around already. Heavens, you know how I am. HOW being an addition to Journalism's FIVE Ws.* Of course .. HOW --- still considerably iffy should reporters insert an opinion or go yellow journalistically or act prof blogger writing editorially to thy hearts co... [More]

SUN/ MAR 26/2011 --- ONE DAY after London Protesters are called anarchists by Reuters... [More]

This blog starts here .... E-mail message From: teffom@writing.com Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 5:02am To: Subject Title: Kindle Mindful March 22, 2011, The Tuesday ... FICTION FANDANGO, A WRITER'S BLOG --- Opens with: Good morning to all readers. Likewise, please be assured you are most welcome to this port of call presented, often researched and crafted for your utmost reading pleasure. Meanwhile: This blog is brought directly to you from MOFFETT PUBLISHING. Later ... [More]

PaulaLaRue Date: Fri, 2/ 25/ 11 WIS NEWS WAVES ... According to CMN & Democracy Now   sources @ 2:30 am Feb 24/K11 ... reports flourish re: a Koch named prank caller from Buffalo, who truly phoned the ---------- state's recently 2010. Gov and identified himself as a Koch brother. (Oh. much surrounds, and is well documented online and offline RE: this KOCH-WALKER contribution fuss. New guy in town, the new, standing up and dictating crazy non union laws, that new gov, Walker who shal... [More]