Category: Micro-fiction
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Read more: 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…
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Read more: 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,…
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Read more: 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…
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Read more: Adjusting Real Life
When loud words form on angry lips, a child’s face prunes-up in temper tantrum mode, or the 10:00 news reports (repeats!) humankind’s brutal and apathetic disregard— I mute the world. You see, Hearing aids allow one to create or modify…
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Read more: Wanted: Lawnmower
The lawn was weedy and overgrown. It had been that way for months, maybe longer. Who gives a fuck about the grass? It had happened again. She walked right into another friendship/relationship trap. Eyes wide open and common sense on hiatus. Fraught…
