MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie

  • Change of Life

    Welcome to the Saturday Mix – Unique Personality, 9 February 2019! This week we are diving into the depths of PERSONIFICATION. Our challenge is all about the use of personification in our writing. You will need to use the statement provided in your response – which can be poetry or prose. Our statement using, personification

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  • Trick Heart

    Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, the writing prompt is The Dissonant Heart. Sometimes, it comes close   Almost, but not quite. My heart flips and flops   As it tumbles into love pausing in mid-somersault to roll over & play dead.    

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  • Sestina: On the Rocks

    Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is recovery. While this piece isn’t about recovery, it’s somewhere in the ballpark. She’s sick. Her nose starts to run and bleed. Crackling leaves fall out of the trees and spread a carpet of scratchy brown over her world. She hugs and rocks herself; staring down at a street

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  • A Moment

    It’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille at Mindlovemiserys Menagerie. Today’s prompt is candles.     Candle’s gentle glow snowflakes silver and moonlit, you and me — alone.    

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  • Dessert

    It’s Wordle #212 over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Blog! Connie was sick of her badmash boyfriend Brad and this disgusting all-you-can-eat buffet he insisted on taking her to. Everything seemed to glisten as if it had been doused in oil. From the food on the rusty old buffet to the Formica tables and red vinyl

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