MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

  • The Bully-Buster

    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

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  • Boys in the Woods

    Boys in the Woods

    This week’s prompt for Mindlovemosery’s Menagerie First  Line Friday is: They congregated up in the hills, far away from judging eyes.   They congregated up in the hills, far away from judging eyes. Who could blame them? Had the narrow-minded townsfolk gotten wind of what those boys (who are now men) were up to, well,

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  • The Gun

    It is First Line Friday over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Our writing prompt for this week is “Take the gun.” “Take the gun,” Gary whispered. Melanie stifled a giggle. “And leave the cannoli?” “Oh, for God’s sake!” Gary flung the script to the floor. “Will you please be serious for once?” “I couldn’t help it!” Melanie laughed.

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  • Hearts of Summer

    Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, we have Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille. This week’s prompt is Summer Love.   Hearts of summer fall quickly; forgetting seasons are temporary.    

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  • 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

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