Tag: Writing Prompt
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Periwinkle & Porn
The Daily Post Aside from being my favorite Crayola color as a child, periwinkle functions as an emotion descriptor as well. The difference between feeling blue and feeling periwinkle is difficult to explain, but when you know it when you feel it — kind of like pornography — you know it when you see it.…
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Jack
Jack’s a strange one — but listen real close some time: he cry like his heart broke. Beats me why he cry Maybe he scared of his self; an’ what he done did.
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Pith
This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the word, “sticky.” Exactly thirteen words. A rolling stone gathers no moss unless someone pours maple syrup on it.
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Waiting with the Magnolias
Even the birds seemed to have moved out, taking the neighbor’s barking dogs with them. Revving engines, honking horns, squeaky brakes: silenced. Was school in session? Perhaps that explained the absence of basketballs bouncing against garage doors and shrieks of little girls playing. The magnolia trees’ subtle-sweet fragrance was the only trace of normalcy. How I loved…
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Delores’ Porch
The Daily Post Delores had more dead friends than live ones. How unfair life is, she thought. You get close to someone and then they die. What was the point? Was there one? And the worst part, the saddest most baffling thing of all, was how nobody seemed to notice. A person loses someone…
aka, The Abject Muse 