Category: Fiction
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The Rain
This week at Song Lyric Sunday, Jim has given us the prompt of listen/hear/talk/speak. I’ve chosen Rhythm of the Rain, by The Cascades from 1963. Song Facts: This was written by The Cascades lead singer John Gummoe, who told us the story in October 2008: “I wrote ‘Rhythm of the Rain’ over a period…
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Misophonia
This weeks writing prompt at Six-Word-Story Prompt is food. Food should be eaten, not heard.
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That Summer
This week at Friday Fictioneers, our photo prompt is the image above by Dawn Miller. Julie parked her truck at the end of the her uncle’s drive and cut the engine. The memory of what happened here all those summers ago still burned as if it were yesterday. She’d waited to tell her parents…
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Sleight of Heart
Today’s prompt at the Go Do Go Café: Write a story or poem that ends with the phrase “he shredded her dreams in dignified air of victory” He said it could quite possibly be the most important text he’d ever sent (to her), and would she like to meet him at The Bamboo Banshee for…
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Quality Time
When I visit my father’s grave, I leave a stone on it. We’re Jewish. That’s what we do. Just a nondescript piece of rock. Gray, generic and anonymous— aptly symbolizing our relationship.
aka, The Abject Muse 