It's time for some really bad poetry again! This time, Chelsea Ann Owens has given us "Little Willie" as the prompt. Little Willie turned eighteen so his father bought him a car. As he handed him the keys He said "Son, drive fast; drive far." Willie headed for Hollywood to become a movie [...]
This week at Friday Fictioneers, our photo prompt is the image above by Dawn Miller. Julie parked her truck at the end of the her uncle's drive and cut the engine. The memory of what happened here all those summers ago still burned as if it were yesterday. She'd waited to tell her parents [...]
Picture it : 1966 in Arlington Heights, IL at Our Lady of Perpetual Angst Catholic School. Mrs. Ludy's third grade class had been designing their special Valentine mailboxes all week. Snippets of red construction paper cut with blunt-nose scissors speckled the classroom floor. Tatters of paper lace doilies and glitter stuck to clothes and jackets [...]
Our task today at MindLoveMisery's Menagerie/Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille is to create a haiku or haibun themed “An Open Flower”. Anthurium blooms quite the exhibitionist boldly delicate. Unapologetic in its procreative intent, (or flipping off the world?)
Today’s prompt at the Go Do Go Café: Write a story or poem that ends with the phrase “he shredded her dreams in dignified air of victory” He said it could quite possibly be the most important text he’d ever sent (to her), and would she like to meet him at The Bamboo Banshee for [...]
It's Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! Today's task is to create a poem of 44 words using the word, fill. It was mid-July when I saw you for the first time. Stars dazzle the midnight sky but quickly fade compared to the stars in my eyes. Your voice like warm scotch: [...]
It's that time again: Chelsea Ann Owens' Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest. The theme again is love. Utter yayness! *** Sometimes when I miss you bad and I'm feeling really sad I hitch a ride and go downtown to the drugstore. I wander the aisles until I find, the scent of Brut so sweet, so [...]
