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  • Necco Wafers & Porn

    Necco Wafers & Porn

    It’s Tale Weaver over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie. Today we have been asked to write about happiness (of all things!). Happiness, eh? This is a topic I know very little about. Googling it doesn’t help. I’ve heard of it, of course. Some people I know have actually experienced it: the real deal. They are happy

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  • Floor #13

    Floor #13

    It is First Line Friday at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie blog. Today’s first line is The elevator stopped on the thirteenth floor with a lurch.  The elevator stopped on the thirteenth floor with a lurch. This was nothing new, actually, since the old elevator gave a jostling lurch on every floor at which it stopped. Anyway, the doors

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  • Blues

    Blues

    It’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Today our theme is sadness.   ain’t no sunshine no butterflies no birds singing — not in my backyard.    

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  • The Newest One

    The Newest One

    Today at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, our writing prompt is to use the following sentence in a story or poem: The flowers were blooming, and the bees kissed them every now and then. “It was a beautiful spring day. Birds were singing —” “What kind ‘o birds?” Jimmy interrupted. Well, I would imagine there were robins, sparrows,

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  • Ticket to Paradise

    Ticket to Paradise

    Today’s writing prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Train Ticket. Geoffrey was late for everything, so it was no surprise that he missed the last train to Paradise, PA. The next one was scheduled for 9:00 pm that night. “But that’s three hourrrrrs from now…” Geoffrey whined to the ticket person—Sybil, according to her name

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