aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Writing Challenge

  • The Bond

    I was thrilled — no, ecstatic — when I learned I was pregnant with you. Each day I fell a little more in love as this tiny life grew and stirred inside me. I couldn’t wait for you to be born so I could finally meet you!  Yet, I feared losing the special bond that only…

  • Periwinkle & Porn

    The Daily Post Aside from being my favorite Crayola color as a child, periwinkle functions as an emotion descriptor as well. The difference between feeling blue and feeling periwinkle is difficult to explain, but when you know it when you feel it — kind of like pornography — you know it when you see it.…

  • Three Days

    The world will end in three days Three days? Are you kidding me? That’s hardly enough time! But if that’s the way it is, what can you do? Delegate! Let’s see… Mom can call everyone and cancel. I’ll get my sister to return the gifts. Surely people will understand. There won’t be a wedding to come…

  • Jack

      Jack’s a strange one — but listen real close some time: he cry like his heart broke.   Beats me why he cry Maybe he scared of his self; an’ what he done did.  

  • A Hairy Situation

    Several years ago in Mobile, AL I belonged to a small Torah study group that met every Wednesday at lunchtime. The rabbi had a hard time keeping our group on-topic; consequently, everything but the Torah was discussed. One day was particularly memorable. A woman named Sharon began telling the story of how her son was playing…