The Passport
An August rerun for your reading pleasure! Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: he had no passport, typing blind, a friend went with me, winds off of [...]
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Aug, 2025
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Aug, 2025
Communal Meltdown
Please enjoy this August summer rerun! Written with my Thursday evening group with the prompts: communal melt down, the mist, her head rode the beat like a boat in the waves, [...]
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Aug, 2025
Alligator Pears
Time for a summer rerun! Enjoy! In a land where the river was filling with salt, and the water was creeping into the garden patch, the iguanas climbed high and [...]
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Jul, 2025
Crazy Days/Crazy Nights
Greetings, dear readers and friends! I hope you are all enjoying a bit of summer fun-- swimming, hiking, travel, plus homegrown tomatoes on your sandwiches, strawberries on your breakfast cereal, [...]
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Jul, 2025
River Book
This poem was created from a favorite prompt from Two Sylvia's Press, where you imagine a famous person, living or dead, comes to your door and gives you a gift. [...]
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Jul, 2025
Pack Animal
Years ago he faithfully wore a tiny Star Spangled Banner—an American flag pin—on the lapel of his suit jacket. It gave him a certain caché, marked him as being a [...]
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Jun, 2025
Mantilla Poppy
Mantilija Poppydisguises herselfas a fried eggsunny side upwith broad white petalscircling a yolky yellow center.You are the very essence of spring, Mantilija.Assertive, persistentyou spread your tendrilsindiscriminatelythrough every unoccupiedinch of dirtin [...]
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Jun, 2025
Five Ways to Spot a Narcissist–PLUS Five Ways to Create Clear Boundaries
Written with this prompt: work in the names of magazines PLUS use the name of a magazine article as your title. I put 15 magazines in this piece. Can you [...]
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May, 2025
Options
Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: rock the test, I prefer trees, fewer and fewer options for a detour, sad frowny face, rose-colored mess, hunting [...]
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May, 2025
A Gift
A Gift Preacher Williams waited till dusk before he set off in his old Toyota because he didn’t want to be seen. He even drove the last mile without headlights [...]