Category: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie
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Darlene’s Dilemma
Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the photo below by Julien Tabet. Her real name was Darlene, but the entire herd — including the brain-damaged shepherd — called her Baldie. Sheep could be so very cruel, she thought, as she stood munching alone in the far corner of the meadow. Most people think sheep…
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The Secret
Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, we have Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille. Our prompt for today is “shadows on the wall.” Our love cannot let itself be seen: a secret dance in the shadows.
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The Bully-Buster
It’s Mad About Metaphor over at the Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie! This week our metaphor is give a wide berth. Gloria awakened that morning with an erroneous smile on her face. Slowly, reality set-in as she came to accept the fact that Sunday was gone and Monday had taken its place. Monday meant school. School meant mean kids and…
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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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To be Us
It’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Lucky Dip! Today our writing prompt is the Oddquain — a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of seventeen syllables distributed 1, 3, 5, 7, 1 in five lines, developed by Glenda L. Hand. You and I were never meant to be but we happened anyway. Fate. Hearts like ours have their own…
aka, The Abject Muse 