aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Writing Challenge

  • Homonymically Correct

    This week’s prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 Writing Challenge at Grammar Ghoul Press are the image below, and Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. Twenty-six words. ** “A Kachina Dancer, perhaps?” “Mmmm. Perhaps, but I think not.” “Oh?” “Indeed. The title of the piece is Nike.” “Preposterous!” “How so?” “The sculpture is barefoot!”        

  • FuBar’d

    This week’s prompt is Heiress *** It was the same deal every morning Liza opened the FuBar Lounge: a whiff of stale beer and the sticky-sweet aroma of bourbon hanging limbo-like in the air took her back thirty-some years. Dad: Lay sprawled between our new, and already-stained pillow furniture and the baby-poop-colored shag carpeting. Mom: spilled face down on the waterbed—riding…

  • Cousin Elliot

      This week’s prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge at Grammar Ghoul Press are the image below and “The Omen Suite” by Jerry Goldsmith. In exactly 13 words… “He’s not livin’ in our basement!” “Uh-huh!” “B-b-b-but…” “He’s family, an’ it’s my turn.”    

  • Bequeathal

    This week’s word prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge are Strand and Field. Exactly 52 words. Strand: n. 1a : fibers or filaments twisted, plaited, or laid parallel to form a unit for further twisting or plaiting into yarn, thread, rope, or cordage b : one of the wires twisted together or laid parallel to…

  • Adjusting Real Life

    When loud words form on angry lips, a child’s face prunes-up in temper tantrum mode, or the 10:00 news reports (repeats!) humankind’s brutal and apathetic disregard— I mute the world. You see, Hearing aids allow one to create or modify reality.