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Tag: Writing Challenge

  • Apart from Genetics

      This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word inherit. Exactly 39 words. *** I inherited my dad’s brown eyes and dark curly hair. I’ve got my mom’s straight nose, stubby legs and haughty attitude. Where my third arm comes from, no one speculates. That subject is double-dog taboo. There’s a story…

  • Mercury in Retrograde

      “This is the library?” Jennie stared out the passenger side window of their Porsche. “Oh, it’s more than just a library,” Marcus explained patiently. “This is also the fresh market, greenhouse, and community center.” “Community center?” Jennie sniffed. “How do you figure? The place is deserted!” “It’s lunchtime,” Marcus countered. “Everybody is home, eating. They’ll…

  • A Blue Bubba

      This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge is the word blues. Definition: n. –  a song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat those of the first, and continual occurrence of blue notes in melody and harmony Exactly…

  • Broken Crowns

      This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word pour. Exactly 26 words.   Henry had been wrestling with this demon for years. Today, he’d found the strength to dump the last bottle of Crown. After just one more sip.        

  • Eddie’s Underwear

    Eddie’s Underwear

      This week’s visual prompt for the Mutant 750 writing challenge is the image below. The word prompt is underwear. It was a wilder-than-usual Friday night at The Rubber Oyster. The place was packed. At 8:30pm, the waiting list was still over an hour and a half. Customers were three-deep at the bar, clamoring for Harvey…