Category: Creative writing
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The Alphabet Challenge
Since everybody else is trying this, I’m going to take a shot at it too. Just pick a word that comes to mind and talk about it. It doesn’t have to be a particular theme, just whatever you want to do. A is for the ageing process which is treating me unkind. B is for the…
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The New People
Jimmy’s welcome home party was in full swing: magicians, clowns, hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill and cake and cookies for later. There was even a live band. Most children would be overjoyed at such a celebration, especially one in their honor, but not Jimmy. He stood alone on the dock staring into the water,…
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Gettin’ Romantic
It’s the Three Things Challenge over at the Haunted Wordsmith blog. Today’s three words are sweat, sweet, and tin. It’s also Stream of Consciousness Saturday, #SoCS at which the prompt is tin. The Callaghan family lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia. Five of them somehow managed in a two room ‘estate’, as…
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Second Thoughts
It’s Fireblossom Friday, over at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads. Our task today is to create a poem using one of the following words: Schadenfreude. (German) The experience of joy, pleasure, or self-satisfaction that comes from the learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures or humiliation of another.2. Bete Noire. (French) A person or…
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“Humannequin’s” First Review
Hi Everyone! I’ve received my first review of “Humannequin & Other Writings.” Doesn’t it make you want to find out what goes on in the transforming room? And who is/was Ken and what was the municipal emergency? By the way, for the next few days you can get a free digital copy of Humannequin from…
aka, The Abject Muse 