Category: Writing Challenge
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Identity Crisis
This week’s writing prompt at 3LineTales is the image below. I’m not a real shark, nor do I play one on TV. In real life, I’m a goldfish, but my therapist disagrees, and has diagnosed me with Dissociative Identity Disorder. I’m a goldfish, dammit, and if you don’t believe me I’ll tear your arm off!…
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The Cute Cop
“Sherri!” “Mom?” Sherri sighed. She knew what was coming, and turned the TV down. “When are you going to clean up your room? It’s a pig sty; I don’t know how you find anything in that mess.” “What’s wrong with it?” Sherri joked. “Oh, for Cripes sake Sherri. You’re impossible!” Sherri knew her mother was…
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Shades
This week’s prompt at 3LineTales is the image below. ∞∞∞ Meredith bragged to her friends that her brand new Chuck Taylor All Stars were the exact same shade of yellow as the guard rail. They didn’t believe her so after school she tried to prove them wrong. It turned out that the color of Meredith’s…
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The Good Stuff
This week’s writing prompt at 3LineTales is the image below. How thoughtful of Auntie Sybil to leave me the things she treasured most: old spools of thread (hours of fun!), two books (she knew about my dyslexia) and these tacky silk roses. To think poor Cousin Earl is stuck with her filthy, dirty millions,…
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A Cherita: Shy Valentine
If you insist… I suppose one kiss would be okay on second thought another kiss would be very okay. The Daily Post