Welcome to Week Five of Three Line Tales.

Check the TLT page for the full guidelines, but here’s the gist:
- Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt.
- Link back to this post.
- Tag your post with 3LineTales (so we can find you in the Reader).
- Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
- Have fun.
Happy three-lining!
Wonderful! Will get started on this! Thanks, Sonya!
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Heaven sent me here.
But there must be a reading place outside.
Otherwise, the too-close shelves make purgatory.
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Ooooh! Great one, Christopher. 🙂
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Wonderful!
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Nice! I didn’t think about the claustrophobia of it all until I read your lines — room to breathe 😉
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‘Fraid so.
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Yes, a bit snug in there – and how would you find anything! Lovely take on the photo
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Great lines Christopher. Yes, the boos piled high can be enclosing in the shop/library.
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Hi Sonya, here’s my take on the prompt
https://srisudhak.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/vellichor/
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I loved that your title is in a “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” — fantastic!!
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Thank you
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This just made me smile! ❤ ❤ ❤
I would post mine on Sunday but it is already constructed in my mind. ❤
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Looking forward to it 🙂
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Yay! 😀 Will be posted on Saturday morning. 🙂
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Thanks for the wonderful prompt, Sonya. Here is my three line story:
https://jahnavichintakunta.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/a-bookworm-versus-a-shopaholic/
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It’s a fab picture, isn’t it? Thanks for participating this week 🙂
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True,Sonya. The photo is awesome. It’s a dream place for any bookworm 🙂
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“Oh, the picture brought back so many memories,” she gushed”. I actually wrote several TLT and finally settled on one,” she confessed. “Can’t wait to read your and other contributions to the TLT bookstore/library.”
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Book as a portal — I absolutely love it! Great entry this week 🙂
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I always write more than one set of lines myself.
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Here’s my take. http://wp.me/p7gi6Y-4X
Thanks for the wonderful challenge!
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My pleasure – thanks for being part of it!
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This is my first time participating in a word prompt, I have responded to this picture challenge… here is my link. Didn’t know how to pingback
https://logos59wordpresscom.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/three-lines-tales-we-are-books/
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Pingback is just another word for putting a link to this post in yours – when you do that, a link to your post turns up here in the comments automatically. But feel free to comment here with a link, I just want to make sure I don’t miss anybody’s lines 🙂
Thanks for participating!
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It was my pleasure. I intend to participate again
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Loved this one – something so atmospheric about those stack of books, the madness of the filing system, the way the apth curves round and you can’t see what’s beyond – a cracker. Thanks Sonya.
https://lynnmlovewords.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/tlt-a-hand-as-flimsy-as-tissue-paper/
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My pleasure. I knew I wanted books, what with it being World Book Day. When I saw this one, I knew I’d found my photo prompt 🙂
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Great prompt! here’s my entry
https://kreativedoting.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/three-line-tales-book-addict/
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Love to be a part of this. Will send my entry soonest! 🙂
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Brilliant! Looking forward to it 🙂
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Hi Sonya, Just posted my entry. Hope it’s in tune. Thanks for the prompt. 🙂
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Done! Just in time before I fly back from my vacation. Phew! This was one of those photos that hit me with a distinct smell – a smell of books auditory hallucination! I’m probably not the only one who experienced it. Now, off to read others’ entries. Thanks, Sonya!
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Oh, and I may have stretched it a wee bit – I did three lines of three lines – or three stanzas. Three sentences, anyway! 🙂
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Yep, that’s okay – if you say each of those stanzas is a line, I’m not going to argue 🙂
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Done! I wrote two haiku on the same image. Rich image! I’d love to know which haiku you prefer. https://angelambrose.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/3linetales-haiku-week-five/
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Hi Sonya – will submit my entry soon. Have a great day everyone!
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Thanks for joining in 🙂
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Done! Will go and check out what the others have written.
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Reblogged this on Kate McClelland and commented:
The old book depository smelled of dust and that slight acidic smell of well fingered pages (why do they say ‘well thumbed’? When did you last ‘thumb’ a book?). The depository was warm and dishevelled like the books it contained, but Jesse loved it. She grabbed a book at random from a shelf without looking at the front cover or the title (as was her reading habit) and made her way through the maze of books to the little canteen lit by the same sad fluorescent lighting.
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No claustrophobia, one just opens the covers and travels about in the story du jour! Check out the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde for travel instructions. 😉
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Someone wrote three lines that were very Thursday Next, but I can’t remember who it was. Might have been Lynn…
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My first time entry/ies. Thanks for the prompt! It’s a great idea. I don’t see the pingback, so here’s the link
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/three-line-story/
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I think pingbacks take some time – I can see it now, though. Welcome to TLT, glad to have you aboard!
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I’m pleased to find another prompt site. I love photo prompts that aren’t just of the erotic variety. It’s difficult for those to go more than one way 🙂
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I’m trying to choose photos that could go in many directions – the more diverse and surprising the responses, the better IMO. Loved your horror tale, so evocative 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 I’ll be looking out for the next one.
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To understand my little tale it might help to have seen Bogart’s The Big Sleep. Or to have been me the year I worked in a tool crib in Pine Point.
“Maxine, have you seen Helen?”
“I sent her deep into the 1800 stacks hours ago to try and find the Ben Hur 1860 edition.”
“The one next to the left-handed wrench, eh!”
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So sorry I am late. But I couldn’t resist this prompt! Thanks for hosting Sonya!
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/so-many-books-so-little-space/
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Hi Sonya, here’s my story.
https://neelwritesblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/neelwrites-threelinetales-fiction-shortstory-139words-08-03-2018/
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