#SaturdayMix

  • 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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  • 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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  • To be Us

    It’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Lucky Dip! Today our writing prompt is the Oddquain — a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of seventeen syllables distributed 1, 3, 5, 7, 1 in five lines, developed by Glenda L. Hand. You and I were never meant to be but we happened anyway. Fate. Hearts like ours have their own

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