Category: Writing Challenge
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I Was a Teenage Troglodyte
It’s time once again for SammiScribbles Weekend Writing Prompt. This week, our word is troglodyte. I went way over the word limit. Tanya was a troglodyte. No one knew which side of the family carried the gene as both parents fiercely denied responsibility. None of the relatives drug their knuckles, at least not in public,…
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Address Unknown
The word prompt is “place.” *** Every year or so, Perdida packed up and moved. Sometimes her search took her across country, other times, a few miles away. Some cities came close to what she was looking for–almost, but not quite. Always, something was missing. It seemed, at times, that such a place did not exist—not for…
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When Love Dyes
After the shotgun wedding, it wasn’t long before their love began to fade like cheap hair dye.
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Breakfast for Two
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle has chosen the photo below as or writing prompt. 100 words. Sylvia was one of those people who made friends wherever she went. Real friends — not the superficial kind in which one outgrows the other. After Sylvia started a couple of kitchen fires, her children decided it was…
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The Will
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle Wiseoff-Fields has chosen the image above by Jeff Arnold as our writing prompt. When her Aunt Mia passed away, Cara was surprised to learn that she had been included in the will. She’d seldom seen her aunt and didn’t feel as though she even knew her. When the box…
aka, The Abject Muse 