MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

  • Nulling the Void

    Nulling the Void

    The Sunday Writing Prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Reasons for Admission. We are to choose one or more of the “afflictions” listed above that qualified for Admissions to a Women’s Insane Asylum, 1864-1889. Ignore the circled item. It all started when I got married and realized what a farce it was. Especially the sex

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  • Our Road: A Villanelle

    Our Road: A Villanelle

    This week’s prompt at MindlovesMisery Menagerie is to write a response to the phrase, “The End of the Road.” The end of our road came too fast. Despite road bumps and hairpin turns— Seems the best things aren’t made to last. Time spread its wings and flew right past, In thoughtless splendor unconcerned. The end

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  • Twisted Fate

    Twisted Fate

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday again! Yay! This piece was originally posted for Photo Challenge Day over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie! During the bus ride home, Sonya savored the days’ events in her mind’s eye. She still couldn’t believe it actually happened. And it was sweeter, better, and…yummier… than she’d ever imagined. What made it even more

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  • Elsewhere Tableau

    Elsewhere Tableau

    It’s the Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip over at MLMM! This week we’ll be crafting a Tableau. Any topic. A tableau consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau. Veil

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  • Champagne & Drive-Ins

    Champagne & Drive-Ins

    For today’s prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, we are to write a diary/journal entry. The entry can be from any point in the narrator’s life past, present, or future. If future tense and from our own perspective try to imagine where you would like to be. If we are writing from our own past try to

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