Category: Creative writing
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Art Appreciation
Tamara de Lempicka self portrait
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Honeymoon Magic
It’s time for Cyranny’s Quickie again! Today she’s asking, Do you enjoy camping? I do not enjoy camping in the least. Here’s why: When I got married for the first time, which is among the Top 10 biggest mistakes of my life, hubby decides we should camp near an Indian Reservation on the first…
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Fifth Grade
There are many songs I could write about today. I could tell you how Dean Martin’s “Everybody Loves Somebody” evokes images of my mom ironing in the kitchen, singing along with the record player. We had to keep a book of matches on its arm to ensure the record wouldn’t skip. Yeah, I could do…
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Seventeen Years
It is First Line Friday at MindloveMiserys Menagerie! Welcome and let’s get writing. Below, I give you the first line, and you all get to write the rest. This week our prompt is: A perfectly brewed cup of tea can’t fix everything. A perfectly brewed cup of tea can’t fix everything. May 28th will mark 17 years…
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Willy
“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?” Hillel Stephanie played to win. Thus far, she’d achieved every goal, personally and professionally, that she’d set for herself. If someone had the misfortune of being in her way, well, that was their own damn fault. She wasn’t the world’s babysitter, for cripe’s…
aka, The Abject Muse 