Category: MindLovesMisery Menagerie
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Simpleville Boy Makes Good
It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! On this very day in 2018, this story came to life. It was originally written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, and the prompt was the image below. Yes, folks, today was a big day for Crasis Gasitus of Simpleville, South Carolina. He’s a young man who had a dream and made it a…
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Sestina: On the Rocks
Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is recovery. While this piece isn’t about recovery, it’s somewhere in the ballpark. She’s sick. Her nose starts to run and bleed. Crackling leaves fall out of the trees and spread a carpet of scratchy brown over her world. She hugs and rocks herself; staring down at a street…
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Muscadine
It’s Tale Weaver over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie and the prompt is evening. Twilight eases in as if someone secretly draws our window shade lower and lower and …
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Bad Meringue
It’s First Line Friday over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. The radio was playing the oddest song when Karl took his seat in the dining room. It was quite different than their usual dinner music. Someone must’ve changed the station. But who? No matter! This, was a song you could dance to. It actually had a…
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A Moment
It’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille at Mindlovemiserys Menagerie. Today’s prompt is candles. Candle’s gentle glow snowflakes silver and moonlit, you and me — alone.
aka, The Abject Muse 