Tag: Writing Prompt
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Read more: 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…
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Read more: Stereotyping
This week’s writing prompt for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge is the image accompanying this little piece, “Burnt Toast” by Rick Warren. Exactly 26 words. ** Bonjour! My name is Pierre. I am a French Toaster. You may think I can…
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Read more: Company
This week’s writing prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 Challenge are the words kitchen, squid, and shampoo. Exactly 26 words. ** “Did you know there’s a squid in the kitchen?” “But it’s only Monday…” “Yeah, so?” “Usually he stops…
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Read more: The Story
It’s obscured among the shadows of the intellect. Too many needles in the haystack, the relentless pinpricking of all the too familiar places. The accidental tattoo on a Chinese-water-tortured soul Detailing the Misdeed, Misword, Mistake. And the guilt; earsplitting and meticulous, recounts…
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Read more: A Blooming Idiot
When its “plant-parents” divorce was final, the ex-wife promptly uprooted the yellow rose from her garden. The ex-husband watched in disbelief as she carefully replanted it in a ceramic pot and placed it in the passenger seat of her car. She buckled…
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Read more: Marnie’s Guts
It wasn’t the first time he’d given her a black eye, broken her ribs, or left a purple-hot bruise where no one could see. But by God, it was the last. “That’s it.” Marnie whispered, holding a dish towel to…
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Read more: Art Appreciation
It was the first thing she saw each morning when she woke up, and the last thing she saw before falling asleep. It bungled her dreams and ruined her days. For as far back as Tammy could remember it had hung there,…
