Category: Creative writing

  • Read more: 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…

    The Liar Heart
  • Read more: 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…

    Day 41
  • Read more: 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…

    Artillery of the Heart
  • Read more: 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…

  • Read more: 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…

    Eradication/Assimilation
  • Read more: Good Enough

    Five days ago…The Daily Post writing prompt was the word fish. ** My dad had his heart set on a boy. From what I understand, he did not hide his disappointment well.  When the nurses brought me out to the…

    Good Enough
  • Read more: Grapes of Loftiness

    Today’s writing prompts at The Daily Post is the word, lofty. ** Lofty. I rarely use the word, if ever. I had trouble writing anything intelligent using this writing prompt so, I googled it. The phrase ‘lofty aspirations’ came up first. Let’s…

    Grapes of Loftiness