Dark and Deep
There were only two prompts for today's piece: "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" (a line from Robert Frost's Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening) and "Things Change, Even [...]
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May, 2026
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Oct, 2025
Becoming a Crone
This is a reprint of a Halloween favorite. Enjoy! Pearl became a crone gradually. It started when she shed her pastel, party-mint-colored clothes, the pinks, the baby blues and pale [...]
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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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Oct, 2024
Becoming a Crone
This is a reprint of another Halloween favorite. Enjoy! Pearl became a crone gradually. It started when she shed her pastel, party-mint-colored clothes, the pinks, the baby blues and pale [...]
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Sep, 2024
Shrinking in the Drought
Shrinking in the Drought Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: I am the walrus, oh baby it’s a wild world, breaking rocks in the hot sun, tonight, [...]
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May, 2024
Voice of My Body
Written with the prompts: mission statement, this is the voice of my body, but then I might not, worth the wait, you’ll thank me later, was I wrong, tap tap [...]
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Feb, 2024
Alligator Pears
In a land where the river was filling with salt, and the water was creeping into the garden patch, the iguanas climbed high and the sloths slunk low, and the [...]
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Nov, 2023
One Tiny Moth Hole
Matilda parked Grandma under the tree while she hung the wet sheets on the line. “I love the smell of fresh laundry,” Grandma said as she watched her hired care [...]
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Dec, 2022
Keep the Change
Written with my Thursday group with the prompts: do you think I made that up?, my hands have my attention because they hurt, blurry faces, where did you see me?, [...]
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Mar, 2020
Sheltering-in-Place
When I was 21 I went to Europe on a five-week student tour with my best friends. On our last day we were in England, and we went on a [...]