Tag: Writing Prompt
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The Dunker
Today’s prompt at The Daily Post is the word relish. ** My Aunt Franny (of blessed memory) was the matriarch mascot favorite of our family on my mom’s side. Her house was headquarters. Family reunions, holiday & birthday parties, pretty much anything that happened, happened at her house. She and my uncle lived in a suburb of Chicago in a cute ranch-style…
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Perfection at its Best
Today’s word prompt at The Daily Post is copycat. During my teenage years, and even for a while after, I idolized my best friend. Let’s call her Sandi. She was tall, thin, and gorgeous. Girls at school called her Barbie; she was that ‘perfect.’ I wanted to be just like her. I emulated her walk, her…
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The Imposter
The word prompt today at The Daily Post is “giant.” ** I used to think my brother was the Jolly Green Giant. Seriously. Jerry is about 20 years older than me, and was working his way through college when I was around four or five. This was in the early 1960s. My mom mentioned to…
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Making Room
This week’s prompt at the Grammar Ghoul Press Shapeshifting 13 writing challenge is the word, imbue. Exactly 13 words. ** Scotch-imbued but still in party mode, Bob wished someone would wring him out.
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Homonymically Correct
This week’s prompts for the Shapeshifting 13 Writing Challenge at Grammar Ghoul Press are the image below, and Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. Twenty-six words. ** “A Kachina Dancer, perhaps?” “Mmmm. Perhaps, but I think not.” “Oh?” “Indeed. The title of the piece is Nike.” “Preposterous!” “How so?” “The sculpture is barefoot!”
aka, The Abject Muse 