Mad About Metaphor – Ergo, the Ogre

June 9, 2025

Breakfast

Welcome to Sunday’s Six Sentence Blog Hop, hosted by GirlieOnTheEdge. This week’s word prompt is Strand. Connie sat at the breakfast table, not quite awake. She picked up her glass of milk and noticed there was a strand of long blonde hair it. No big deal, it was one of hers. She was reminded of

The Bully-Buster

It’s Mad About Metaphor over at the Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie! This week our metaphor is give a wide berth. Gloria awakened that morning with an erroneous smile on her face. Slowly, reality set-in as she came to accept the fact that Sunday was gone and Monday had taken its place. Monday meant school. School meant mean kids and

Blowing It

Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the metaphor, “blowing one’s own horn.” Derek was an average kid. He made Bs and Cs in school, maybe an occasional A if he was lucky. His parents, however, claimed he was a ‘gifted child.’ They fawned over him mercilessly. If he failed, it was someone else’s fault