Tag: Writing Prompt

  • Skin

    Skin

    It’s time for Sunday’s Six Sentence Story over at GirlieOnTheEdge’s Blog. This week, our writing prompt is the word close. There was a time when I felt so close to you it was as if we shared the same skin. Remember how we’d finish each other’s sentences, think the same thoughts and want the same…

  • Art Appreciation

    Art Appreciation

    Tamara de Lempicka self portrait

  • Dunya, Dunya

    Dunya, Dunya

    It’s time for Cyranny’s Word of the Day Challenge. Today, our prompt is “disposal.” Forgetting what had happened last time, Dunya stuck her hand in the garbage disposal while it was running. “Why, Dunya? Why do you do these things? “I’m sorry, Mama. It won’t happen again.”  Dunya vowed. “I promise.” “You promised last time.…

  • Going Home

    Going Home

    Joanna knew it was there; found it months ago. Between her crappy job, chronic depression, and Brad’s not-so-secret affair, she just plain couldn’t be bothered. Why add to the chaos? Now she had to be bothered, except she wasn’t. Joanna knew exactly how it would end, too. The same way it had for her grandmother, mother and two of her sisters.…

  • Masquerade

      If you have to barter for love, it’s lust in disguise.