Category Archives: VIGNETTE

MINDING MY Ps AND Qs – A Punctilious Quest

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Once upon a dreary Sunday many Mays ago, it was unclear whether Alice Wetherby-Pimms had quaffed the dregs of a liter of PLYMOUTH and nodded off under the Steinway or if the ten-year-old had passed out cold in the wake … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, HUMOR, SHORT STORIES, VIGNETTE | Tagged adventure, adventures in writing, Adventures of Alice Wetherby Pimms, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, paranormal disappearances, Ps and Qs | 6 Comments

SECRETS, LIES, and SFOGLIADELL’

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

They say the day Aunt Frankie married Uncle Sally was a day that would live in infamy. I’d learned Franklin D. Roosevelt said that when Pearl Harbor was bombed, but no, most of the family, actually, only the uncles, would … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, FAMILY, HOLIDAYS, HUMOR, SHORT STORIES, VIGNETTE | Tagged adventure, Coney Island fireworks, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, fireworks, fourth of July celebration, life on Staten Island in the 1960's, summer camp stories, The Family, Writer's Digest prompt | 16 Comments

THE POWER OF LOVE

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

She stands facing the pale, windswept bay, tall and erect as the ancient redwoods poking through the shroud of fog folding over the mountain range behind her. They loom in the distance like a pack of protective brothers, chanting in … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX, VIGNETTE | Tagged adventure, Benjamin Lyford, D. G. Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Hilarita Reed, Marin County History, Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary, The Lyford House, the power of love | 18 Comments

A MIDWINTER NIGHT’S MADNESS

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Alice Wetherby Pimms physically felt time pass in the coursing of her blood for as long as she could remember. Every second -tick, tick, tick- was like an invasion of needle-nosed imps nipping at the underside of her plump flesh. Each … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, VIGNETTE | Tagged adventure, Adventures of Alice Wetherby Pimms, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Fairies in a Bird's Nest, John Anster Fitzgerald, vignette | 15 Comments

#95

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Until I was six, I thought Uncle Sally’s name was Who-Gives-A-Sh*t. Everyone called him that – the neighbors, the few friends he had, his business associates, the family – even his mother, my Nana. She’d hoped the label wouldda’ forced her caro … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, Essay, HUMOR, SHORT STORIES, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes, VIGNETTE, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, D.G.Lambo, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, vignette, Writer's Digest Challenge #95 | 12 Comments

AN A-MUSE-ING REALIZATION

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Going. Going. Gone. My Muse is acting like a yo-yo that has been shot into outer space and has lost the energy to return to my outstretched palm. The string, taut at first, went limp eight weeks ago and now … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, VIGNETTE | Tagged adventure, D.G.Lambo, Donna Lambo-Weidner, muse, paper back writer, thoughts on writing, universe, Writer's block | 22 Comments

VINNIE MALONE

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

I am honored to have been included in the latest zine issue (#5) of Plots by Clots titled Bots & Tots, dedicated to childhood memories and growing up. My contribution, Vinnie Malone, is a work of fiction, but based on an … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, CHILDHOOD, VIGNETTE | Tagged adventure, author, blog, childhood vignette, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Plots by Clots, The Lone Ranger, Vinnie Malone | 18 Comments

THE SOUP INVADER

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Of all the things I expected to find in my tomato soup, this wasn’t one of them. A few seeds so small they’d slipped through the strainer unnoticed? Perhaps. A bit of chopped onion that had stuck to the pot and avoided being puréed … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, HUMOR, VIGNETTE, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, Chuck Wendig flash fiction challenge, Donna Weidner, fortune cookie wisdom, humorous vignette, The Godfather, WRITING CHALLENGE | 7 Comments

LITERALLY, THE END

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Out of all the tickers that stopped at precisely 12:15 pm, Alastair Hoodwink managed to squeeze a few more seconds from his for a last word with his son Malcolm… “When the world literally begins to fade into a blank canvas, rest assured, … Continue reading →

Posted in ADVENTURES, FAMILY, VIGNETTE, WRITING CHALLENGES | Tagged adventure, apocalyptic vignette, blog, Chuck Wendig flash fiction prompt, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, family legacy | 10 Comments

A MOST DUBIOUS COLLECTION

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner

Alice Wetherby Pimms had a penchant for collecting governesses. Of her many peculiarities, this was perhaps the most curious, for in the first seven and three-quarter years of her young life, shipping magnate Roderick Pimms’ only child had procured precisely eleven of them. Rounding up, this would … Continue reading →