Category: Fiction
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Asleep All Night
This week over at Song Lyric Sunday, Jim Adams has given us the prompts, above/below/between, which must be somewhere in the song we choose. This time, out of thousands of songs and for whatever reason, I decided on Asleep at the Wheel’s Stay a Little Longer. Song Facts In 1969, Ray Benson (a nice Jewish…
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The Dark
Today over at Song Lyric Sunday, Jim Adams has asked us to choose a song that uses clear/light/dark in the title or lyrics. I chose one of my favorites, “On the Dark Side” by John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band. Lyrics The dark side’s calling now Nothing is real She’ll never know just how…
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My Happy Pill
Today at Fandango’s Dog Days of August prompt, we are to write about something that brings us joy. Joy, huh? This is a tough one since I’ve lost my job due to Covid19 and lost a few friends (other illnesses & accidents) over the last several months. However! There are two things that bring some…
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Elsewhere Tableau
It’s the Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip over at MLMM! This week we’ll be crafting a Tableau. Any topic. A tableau consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau. Veil…
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Somebody Else
It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This poem was originally written for the dVerse Poet’s Pub exactly one year ago today. I hope you enjoy it. For today’s Meeting the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing to the First-Person Narrative, using “I am” as part of our poem. The voice and the specific point…
aka, The Abject Muse 