MindLovesMisery Menagerie

  • Absolutely Gorgeous

    It’s First Line Friday over at The MindLovesMisery’s Menagerie blog. This week’s first line is: Lush melodies drew her to the door of the lounge, the friendly smiles enticed her inside. Lush melodies drew her to the door of the lounge, the friendly smiles enticed her inside. That, and a sudden urge to use the

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  • Champagne & Drive-Ins

    Champagne & Drive-Ins

    For today’s prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, we are to write a diary/journal entry. The entry can be from any point in the narrator’s life past, present, or future. If future tense and from our own perspective try to imagine where you would like to be. If we are writing from our own past try to

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  • The Grand Jete

    The Grand Jete

    It’s Fandango’s Friday Flashback!  This story was originally written for MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie. Once upon a time, there lived a giant named Frank whose left foot was bigger than his right. Of course, when he went to the Jaunty Giant Shoe Emporium, they wouldn’t allow him purchase two different sized shoes. Frank couldn’t afford two pair,

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  • Necco Wafers & Porn

    Necco Wafers & Porn

    It’s Tale Weaver over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie. Today we have been asked to write about happiness (of all things!). Happiness, eh? This is a topic I know very little about. Googling it doesn’t help. I’ve heard of it, of course. Some people I know have actually experienced it: the real deal. They are happy

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  • Blowing It

    Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the metaphor, “blowing one’s own horn.” Derek was an average kid. He made Bs and Cs in school, maybe an occasional A if he was lucky. His parents, however, claimed he was a ‘gifted child.’ They fawned over him mercilessly. If he failed, it was someone else’s fault

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