Category: Writing Challenge
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The Sub
This week’s writing prompt for the Grammar Ghoul Press Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word, recipe. Exactly 13 words. ** Substituting vodka for water can ruin a recipe— but it’s a great payback.
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As Seen on TV
Today’s writing prompts at The Daily Post is the word, scorched. ℵ I was cursed/blessed with naturally curly hair. During the 1970s when I was a teenager, this was not cool. Older people told me how lucky I was and that I’d never need a perm. “Don’t worry,” they’d say. “Curly hair would be back in style…
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Eradication/Assimilation
The writing prompt today at Our Random View, asks us to explain how we would survive a zombie apocalypse. ** Good question. When I lived in Connecticut, my neighbor was a member of the local Zombie Response Team. His vehicle is pictured below. I didn’t have to worry about the ZA then. Travis had me covered. Now,…
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Close to You
Today’s prompt at The Daily Post is Second Thoughts. ** This happened today. I was sitting at the counter because there were no tables available. It’s not my favorite thing, sitting with my back to the world, but the restaurant was packed. Luckily, it appeared to be a relatively harmless crowd—office workers on their lunch break, retirees, and such. However,…
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Thunder Thieves
Today’s prompt at The Daily Post is the word irksome. ** Irksome. Now there’s a word for you. One of the things I find irksome is when people have to make it about themselves. You know the kind; the ones that have done, seen, or experienced everything that you have, only bigger, better, faster, shinier, or…
aka, The Abject Muse 