Category: MindLovesMisery Menagerie
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Mattering, Or Not
Today’s writing prompt over at MindLoveMisery Menagerie is the image below: Poem–“Alone”, by Edgar Allen Poe. From the moment I was born, I was alone. Even with my parents and nine brothers and sisters, I was alone. I didn’t look like them — any of them — nor did I think the way they did. I had…
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Sublime Sublimation
Today’s writing prompt at MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie is Opposing Forces. We must use the following antitheses in our writing: – whisper and shout – humid and dry yet, you whisper them sweetly — those cruel, ugly words — that shout at the tender places of my heart too often your hateful ways make me wish I…
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Simmered & Jagged
It’s First Line Friday over at the MindLoveMisery Menagerie Blog. Here is this week’s first line: The sun simmered red as it slunk towards the jagged horizon. The sun simmered red as it slunk towards the jagged horizon. “Dang-a-kangaroo, Earl. Don’t that sun look hot ’nuff to fry up some ‘possum patties on?” “Heck yeah, Earl,”…
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The Deep End
Today at the MindLoveMisery Menagerie blog, we have Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille. The visual prompt is the image below, and the theme is Morning Dew. Baby spiders wade through morning dewdrops under Mom’s eight watchful eyes.
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The Test
Today’s visual prompt at MindLoveMisery Blog is the image below. I don’t know about this. Wish I’d gotten my usual strawberry. All of a sudden tomato ice cream doesn’t sound so good. Doesn’t smell good either. Wait. There’s something in there! I swear to God it moved. Well, maybe not. There it is again!…
aka, The Abject Muse 