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Category: MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

  • The Gun

    It is First Line Friday over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Our writing prompt for this week is “Take the gun.” “Take the gun,” Gary whispered. Melanie stifled a giggle. “And leave the cannoli?” “Oh, for God’s sake!” Gary flung the script to the floor. “Will you please be serious for once?” “I couldn’t help it!” Melanie laughed.…

  • After All

    Here’s what’s going on today over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie: This week consider the notion of Eulogy as a task to write about. It could be your own, a friend, a parent, a child or you may like to write a story in which a eulogy features. Susan lived a long, long life. Too long…

  • Hearts of Summer

    Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, we have Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille. This week’s prompt is Summer Love.   Hearts of summer fall quickly; forgetting seasons are temporary.    

  • Missing Man

    Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the image below, by Gabriel Isak. I saw you today.   On the beach the four paper airplanes sailing low across the sky the Missing Man Formation so sadly appropriate. you know, I kept  keep hoping, hoping you’ll be back, they’ll find you. You. somewhere. somehow. Ten years…

  • After Midnight

    It’s the Saturday Mix over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie This week our task is to write a poem or short story using personification and the statement, “The flood raged over the entire village.” What began as a balmy summer breeze playfully ruffling the voile sheers had morphed into angry howling winds. Quaint beach homes dotting the…