Category: Fiction
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Boys in the Woods
This week’s prompt for Mindlovemosery’s Menagerie First Line Friday is: They congregated up in the hills, far away from judging eyes. They congregated up in the hills, far away from judging eyes. Who could blame them? Had the narrow-minded townsfolk gotten wind of what those boys (who are now men) were up to, well,…
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Mornings
It’s the Sunday Whirl! Below are the words we are to use in our story or poem. Inga lay in the top bunk watching droplets of rain form and merge into rivulets on the bedroom window. Occasionally she heard a roll of thunder over her younger sister’s snoring, but the magical ping of…
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The Gun
It is First Line Friday over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Our writing prompt for this week is “Take the gun.” “Take the gun,” Gary whispered. Melanie stifled a giggle. “And leave the cannoli?” “Oh, for God’s sake!” Gary flung the script to the floor. “Will you please be serious for once?” “I couldn’t help it!” Melanie laughed.…
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After All
Here’s what’s going on today over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie: This week consider the notion of Eulogy as a task to write about. It could be your own, a friend, a parent, a child or you may like to write a story in which a eulogy features. Susan lived a long, long life. Too long…
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Missing Man
Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the image below, by Gabriel Isak. I saw you today. On the beach the four paper airplanes sailing low across the sky the Missing Man Formation so sadly appropriate. you know, I kept keep hoping, hoping you’ll be back, they’ll find you. You. somewhere. somehow. Ten years…
aka, The Abject Muse 