Becoming a Crone
For October, another Halloween favorite. . . Pearl became a crone gradually. It started when she shed her pastel, party-mint-colored clothes, the pinks, the baby blues and pale yellows. Suddenly [...]
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Oct, 2026
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Oct, 2026
Memorie and the Coyote
For October, a Halloween favorite. Written with the prompts: monster, did it wander off, but that’s why you want to be there, beautiful but scary, slower and more careful, underwater, [...]
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Oct, 2026
Waiting
Last night I dreamed that the river breached its levee and crept on tiny feet step by step like a kit fox into my yard. The fence was no barrier [...]
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Oct, 2026
The Child’s Notebook
I wrote this piece with my Thursday night group. I changed most of the prompts, but perhaps you may still recognize them: the child, September, denigration, breakage, loss of youth, rust, crawling [...]
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Oct, 2026
Love and Chocolate
Written with the prompts: brave new world, a game you see, chocolate, love, mistaken for a dog, naughty, go call daddy, give up, play the music, the night is young, [...]
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Aug, 2026
Beautiful But Scary
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: Mike was picking on you, she woke shivering in the dark of the night, gray light, junior bird men, beautiful but [...]
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Aug, 2026
Where Are You From? Where Are You Going?
Where Are You From? Where Are You Going? Written with the prompts: I found the strangest thing in my pocket, they were so loud they couldn’t hear her, staring at [...]
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Aug, 2026
Sharing Stories
Sharing Stories Written with the prompts: a lot to handle, a game you see, celebrate, break my heart, a simple thank you, head bowed in silence, a couple walking in [...]
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Jul, 2026
Muse
On the day Blossom met Tom, they went wandering through midtown. They were both eager to talk, to share, to learn, yet scared too--nervous at any lull, quick to comment [...]
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Jul, 2026
Pink
Written with the prompts: it drives me nuts, 59 miles, Linda, a world full of lovely poems, tangy/yangy, hide in plain sight, electric lights, square yard, pink fuzzy lint, dead [...]