aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Writing Challenge

  • From Hell to Hero

    From Hell to Hero

    Gloria awakened that morning with an erroneous smile on her face. Slowly, reality set-in as she came to accept the fact that Sunday was gone and Monday had taken its place. Monday meant school. School meant mean kids and bullies. Mean kids and bullies meant angry tears that led to more stuttering, which of course, delighted the mean…

  • My Thunder

    The Daily Post He was born in the afternoon, during one of the biggest, loudest storms I had ever witnessed. The best name my eight-year-old imagination could come up with, was Thunder.  He was my very first horse and I loved him. We grew up together; best friends, Thunder and me. Forty years later, whenever there is a…

  • Waiting with the Magnolias

    Even the birds seemed to have moved out, taking the neighbor’s barking dogs with them. Revving engines, honking horns, squeaky brakes: silenced. Was school in session? Perhaps that explained the absence of basketballs bouncing against garage doors and shrieks of little girls playing. The magnolia trees’ subtle-sweet fragrance  was the only trace of normalcy. How I loved…

  • Merriweather Salazar

    The Daily Post BRIIIING! BRIIIING! “Helleu? Sargent residence…” “Helleu! Is John in, please?” “No, I’m afraid not. He’s off painting portraits of people sketching with their wives, again.” “Indeed! I thought he’d stopped that nonsense after what’d happened last time.” “Oh, would that it were!” Mrs. Sargent sighed. “He just can’t seem to help himself—and…

  • Stereotyping

    This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the image accompanying this little piece, “Burnt Toast” by Rick Warren. Exactly 26 words. ** Bonjour! My name is Pierre. I am a French Toaster. You may think I can make French Toast, but this is not the case. See below.