Category: The Daily Post
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A Smiling Martyr
Today’s writing prompt at The Daily Post is the word, martyr. ℵ I recently moved back to Alabama after living in Connecticut for nearly four years. One Saturday morning I was driving down US 280, missing CT and my friends, a job that I’d loved, and everything else I’d left behind. In short, I was homesick and feeling…
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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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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…
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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…
aka, The Abject Muse 