Category: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie
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True Colors
It’s First Line Friday again over at MindloveMisery’s Menagerie. This week our first line is, The cafe began to feel like her only real home. The cafe began to feel like her only real home. At least there, she was treated with respect. Tonja was grateful she’d had the foresight to take this job, just…
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Seventeen Years
It is First Line Friday at MindloveMiserys Menagerie! Welcome and let’s get writing. Below, I give you the first line, and you all get to write the rest. This week our prompt is: A perfectly brewed cup of tea can’t fix everything. A perfectly brewed cup of tea can’t fix everything. May 28th will mark 17 years…
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The Anomaly
Today’s Sunday Writing Prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Beautiful Mistake. Did you choose the wrong partner, but developed boundaries and self-confidence that prepared you for the right one? Did you accidently knock your coffee over your written manuscript, but when you re-wrote, it turned out even better? Did you take a job you ended…
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Nulling the Void
The Sunday Writing Prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Reasons for Admission. We are to choose one or more of the “afflictions” listed above that qualified for Admissions to a Women’s Insane Asylum, 1864-1889. Ignore the circled item. It all started when I got married and realized what a farce it was. Especially the sex…
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Our Road: A Villanelle
This week’s prompt at MindlovesMisery Menagerie is to write a response to the phrase, “The End of the Road.” The end of our road came too fast. Despite road bumps and hairpin turns— Seems the best things aren’t made to last. Time spread its wings and flew right past, In thoughtless splendor unconcerned. The end…
aka, The Abject Muse 