Twice upon a time
with you became redundant.
Should have stopped at once.
This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word, blacken.
v.
– damage or destroy (someone’s good reputation); defame.
Exactly 13 words.
When my ex-husband got done talking smack, my reputation stunk like blackened sewage.

This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge is the word blues.
Definition:
n.
– a song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat those of the first, and continual occurrence of blue notes in melody and harmony
Exactly 52 words.
“Why the long face, Bubba?
Bubba shrugged. “Feelin’ kinda lonely.”
“Aw, heck,” Joe-Mike hollered. “I can fix that!”
“How?”
“We’s goin’ uptown to hear “Mopey-Dick & the Whiners.”
A Blues Band?
“Yep! One o’ the girls in the band has damn near a whole set o’ teeth!”
“Yer lyin’.”
“Ain’t neither.”
“Hot damn!”
