Category: Fiction
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The Book of Samuel
There was pregnant pause fit for an ellipsis at the Plath Institute for the Punctuationally Perplexed. Apostrophes dangled in mid-air—like modifiers—pondering their functions. Were they in for possession, or did their presence suggest a multitude of charges? Commas found themselves scattered, unsure of where to go and how many of them were necessary. Meanwhile, the semi-colons, colons and em-dashes jockeyed for position in the awkward…
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Useful
It’s Song Lyric Sunday! This time, Jim Adams has given us the prompt of brother/sister; children of the same parent. I chose Bill Withers, “Use Me.” Lyrics My friends feel it’s their appointed duty They keep tryna tell me All you want to do is use me But my answer, yeah to all that use…
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Cold, Jagged, Piece
It’s Poetics Tuesday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. Tonight our mission is to write a NONET – a nine line poem that begins with 9 syllables, descending line by line to 1 syllable. Select ONE of these 9 syllable lines as your opener (or more if you wish to write several nonets) It seems…
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Hobohemia
It’s Prosery Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! Prosery is prose that includes a line from a poem. I will give you the line, and then you incorporate it into a short prose piece. This can be either flash fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction, but it must be prose! And it must be no longer…
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Heart Brakes
It’s SammiScribbles Weekend Writing Prompt! Linda hit the brakes when “Endless Love” came on the radio, oblivious to screeching tires and crunching metal. .
aka, The Abject Muse 