It's that time again: The Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest hosted my Chelsea Ann Owens! Our mission is to create a senryu about a small, innocuous animal of our choice. Armadillo lies in the middle of highway plays chicken with cars
The Daredevil
Author: The Abject Muse
Susan Marie Shuman is an author and freelance writer/editor who currently resides in the wilds of Birmingham, AL. She shares her life with four spoiled cats, several friends (not all of them imaginary) one husband and one step-son. When she's not working, Susan enjoys horseback riding, reading, taking her cats for a spin in their pet stroller, and taking naps.
An ex-bartender, recovering crash test dummy and all-around late bloomer, Susan graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2004 with a BA in English. She minored in Russian.
Long-range goals include visiting Israel, the Czech Republic and Liechtenstein. Susan is also planning to launch a micronation which would be called either Suzannistan or Eastern Suzanorovia.
Breakfast for Two
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle has chosen the photo below as or writing prompt. 100 words. Sylvia was one of those people who made friends wherever she went. Real friends — not the superficial kind in which one outgrows the other. After Sylvia started a couple of kitchen fires, her children decided it was [...]
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The Carrier
Tonight at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are celebrating the color Red. Sarahsouthwest is our host tonight. Yeah. Red. Red reminds me of you. That careless blur of candy-slut-red lipstick that tainted your white-on-white shirt. I got rid of the stain — but you failed to get rid of its carrier. Crimson Red. Like [...]
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Champagne & Drive-Ins
For today’s prompt at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie, we are to write a diary/journal entry. The entry can be from any point in the narrator’s life past, present, or future. If future tense and from our own perspective try to imagine where you would like to be. If we are writing from our own past try to [...]
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Ode to Spring (in Alabama)
Once again it's time for Chelsea Ann Owens' Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest. Our writing prompt is Springtime and my terrible poem is below. Springtime in the Dirty South don't last fer long Well hush my mouth! Magnolia trees are the best part smell so fresh an' sweet ain't like Bubba-Jean's dirty feet. Tiny [...]
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The Will
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle Wiseoff-Fields has chosen the image above by Jeff Arnold as our writing prompt. When her Aunt Mia passed away, Cara was surprised to learn that she had been included in the will. She’d seldom seen her aunt and didn’t feel as though she even knew her. When the box [...]
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A Star
It's Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub! Our writing prompt is Magic. Exactly 44 words. A roomful of people or even a nightclub when you looked at me and grinned that crooked grin Poof! the world disappeared. Just you and me. Sometimes that magic still happens when I gaze at the midnight sky and [...]
