Category: Writing Challenge
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The Dunker
Today’s prompt at The Daily Post is the word relish. ** My Aunt Franny (of blessed memory) was the matriarch mascot favorite of our family on my mom’s side. Her house was headquarters. Family reunions, holiday & birthday parties, pretty much anything that happened, happened at her house. She and my uncle lived in a suburb of Chicago in a cute ranch-style…
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Hyperbolic Haiku
Today’s prompt at The Daily Post is hyperbole. ** Ten forevers pass… there’s still no designated Hyperbole Day.
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The Imposter
The word prompt today at The Daily Post is “giant.” ** I used to think my brother was the Jolly Green Giant. Seriously. Jerry is about 20 years older than me, and was working his way through college when I was around four or five. This was in the early 1960s. My mom mentioned to…
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Making Room
This week’s prompt at the Grammar Ghoul Press Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge is the word, imbue. Exactly 13 words. ** Scotch-imbued but still in party mode, Bob wished someone would wring him out.
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Whatever…
This week’s prompt for the 100 Word Challenge is voice. Learn more at Thin Spiral Notebook. * His voice reminded her of sandpaper against cement. Did he gargle with gravel? She wondered if it hurt for him to speak because it sure as hell hurt to listen. She hated when these speakers came to her school. There was…
aka, The Abject Muse 