Category: Creative writing
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The Liar Heart
Click here to participate! ** I’ve done some pretty dumb things in my life. Looking back, the mistakes could have easily been avoided if I’d listened to my head instead of my heart. My heart is a liar. It’s made of fool of me a thousand times; an idiot, a real chump-ette. Yet, I believe…
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Day 41
This week’s prompt at the Grammar Ghoul Press Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge is the word recipe. Exactly 52 words. ** The holidays are upon us. If you’re like me, you’re thinking homunculi. Don’t have one? No sweat. Be your own Homunculus Hero! Here’s how: 4 chicken bones 1 dollop spermatozoa 7oz skin fragments 4oz donkey…
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Artillery of the Heart
The topic I am about to discuss is not the norm. I am venturing out of my comfort zone and into the light un-dark. Brace yourselves. ** Love. In my opinion, it does not come under the heading of ‘a many splendored thing;’ that would be infatuation. You’ve got to admit, infatuation is a beautiful thing.…
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As Seen on TV
Today’s writing prompts at The Daily Post is the word, scorched. ℵ I was cursed/blessed with naturally curly hair. During the 1970s when I was a teenager, this was not cool. Older people told me how lucky I was and that I’d never need a perm. “Don’t worry,” they’d say. “Curly hair would be back in style…
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Eradication/Assimilation
The writing prompt today at Our Random View, asks us to explain how we would survive a zombie apocalypse. ** Good question. When I lived in Connecticut, my neighbor was a member of the local Zombie Response Team. His vehicle is pictured below. I didn’t have to worry about the ZA then. Travis had me covered. Now,…
aka, The Abject Muse 