Category: Writing Challenge
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Parenting Skills
This week’s word prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge are: a) screaming child b) Loch Ness c) empty soda can In exactly 39 words. Mrs. Ness had tried everything to quiet her screaming progeny. Usually shoving an empty soda can in Lochie’s ear did the trick, but not today. It was one of those…
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The Story
It’s obscured among the shadows of the intellect. Too many needles in the haystack, the relentless pinpricking of all the too familiar places. The accidental tattoo on a Chinese-water-tortured soul Detailing the Misdeed, Misword, Mistake. And the guilt; earsplitting and meticulous, recounts every detail of the Story. The Daily Post: Interior
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The Leap of Faith
It was more attention than she’d ever received in her life. How she’d ended up this high was anyone’s guess, but she was glad it happened: All eyes were on her; she was the star! But what did they, her new fans, want? Dizzy with excitement and overwhelmed by her sudden fame, she could barely make…
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Marnie’s Guts
It wasn’t the first time he’d given her a black eye, broken her ribs, or left a purple-hot bruise where no one could see. But by God, it was the last. “That’s it.” Marnie whispered, holding a dish towel to her bloodied chin. “I’m done.” “You ain’t goin’ no-damn-where,” he sneered. “You ain’t got the…
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Art Appreciation
It was the first thing she saw each morning when she woke up, and the last thing she saw before falling asleep. It bungled her dreams and ruined her days. For as far back as Tammy could remember it had hung there, taking up almost the entire wall. The monstrosity was an eyesore; a waste of valuable space where Barry Manilow…
aka, The Abject Muse 