Ergo, the Ogre

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  • The Sub

    The Sub

        This week’s writing prompt for the Grammar Ghoul Press Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word, recipe. Exactly 13  words. ** Substituting vodka for water can ruin a recipe— but it’s a great payback.    

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  • FuBar’d

    This week’s prompt is Heiress *** It was the same deal every morning Liza opened the FuBar Lounge: a whiff of stale beer and the sticky-sweet aroma of bourbon hanging limbo-like in the air took her back thirty-some years. Dad: Lay sprawled between our new, and already-stained pillow furniture and the baby-poop-colored shag carpeting. Mom: spilled face down on the waterbed—riding

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  • Cousin Elliot

      This week’s prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge at Grammar Ghoul Press are the image below and “The Omen Suite” by Jerry Goldsmith. In exactly 13 words… “He’s not livin’ in our basement!” “Uh-huh!” “B-b-b-but…” “He’s family, an’ it’s my turn.”    

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  • Bequeathal

    This week’s word prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge are Strand and Field. Exactly 52 words. Strand: n. 1a : fibers or filaments twisted, plaited, or laid parallel to form a unit for further twisting or plaiting into yarn, thread, rope, or cordage b : one of the wires twisted together or laid parallel to

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  • Next!

    This week’s prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge at Grammar Ghoul Press is the word spell. v. 1. to read slowly and with difficulty 2. a spoken word or form of words held to have magic power When her date demonstrated a remarkable fluency in flatulence, the spell was broken.  

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