Category: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie
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The Posey Posse
It’s First Line Friday over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie blog. This week our first line is The rose bushes lay a siege with velveteen petals and curved thorns. The rose bushes lay a siege with velveteen petals and curved thorns. These multi-faceted flowers were not your average narcissistic, depthless blooms. No, there was much more…
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Elsewhere Tableau
It’s the Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip over at MLMM! This week we’ll be crafting a Tableau. Any topic. A tableau consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau. Veil…
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Eighth Grade
Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Make a Wish. So, I was walking along the same old dirt road I walked every day to wait for the school bus, thinking about how much I hated school. It was stupid. I wasn’t good at it, nor was I interested in any of the subjects.…
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The Woods of Io
I was a homeless, pregnant calico cat living in an upscale residential neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. I’d had humans at one time, but they moved away and left me behind. After new people moved into our house, I realized my people weren’t coming back. I wondered for a long time what I’d done to make…
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Vladimir & Vivienne
Today at MindloveMisery’s Menagerie we are asked to write a story or poem in which opposites attract. Here’s mine: ∞ Theirs was the kind of love that even Calliope could not charm into verse. Though inspired to the brink of madness, troubadours were graceless to make melody of it. Simply, it was its own symphony. Universally taboo, yet pure…
aka, The Abject Muse 