January 2025
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The Crow & The Winter Witch (poem)
So at dVerse Poets this week Kim had an eye check-up for a new prescription and part of the check-up was to read from laminated test cards of different size fonts in sentences and below each of the sentences were sets of four words. She thought these sets of four words would make a cool… Continue reading
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To Cliche Or Not To Cliche, That Is … The Cliche? (poem)
So there was a prompt from Bjorn at dVerse Poets earlier this week and it was this, Meet the bar positively through negation (though I did miss the window of submission to this one … I am often late to the party on a lot of these but still a prompt). Now, I’m sure, I… Continue reading
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Utter the Thought
The latest prompt from Sammi Cox. The word “utter” with a max of 92 words. Our family dinners had us standing on one side or the other while still fighting out who would wash the dishes to give Mom a break after her efforts, that one word that would lay dad to rest after turkey… Continue reading
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A Cardiff Production: Nether Gate Part II
Part One: A Cardiff Production: Working Title “Nether Gate” Part Two: “Nether Gate Part II” Robin looked up and winced in the sun at a Devil while trying to breathe … and he felt a bit loopy too, feeling as if you’ve been dropped from an airplane’ll surely do that to ya “the Devil!?! Oh,… Continue reading
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Ma
Been holding off on posting of my mother’s passing here until I wrote something for her. Now what I have here doesn’t even scratch the surface of what she meant to us and our family and her friends, but, like my Dad, who passed around 30 or so years ago now, she was important, so… Continue reading
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“Winner” (flash fiction)
Word Prompt from Sammi Cox – 95 words max Word – “Winner” //// I wanted to punch him, right in his stupid face. But he hovered over me, bastard, daily, smirking, taking the desserts Mom left quizzical black heart notes on. I finally punched him right in his stupid Mr Johnson face and held my… Continue reading
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God Made Trump (yeah, that was in error): A Song Revisit Plus “The Out Loud” Songs
Only mere days now until the coronation of a new and future King (and a protege too, a right hand millioned, billioned dollar money man). Imagine our luck!? It’s kind of invigorating really in these doldrums of post holiday blues, to be able to re-imagine our democracy in a new non-democratic light, almost like a… Continue reading
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January 20, 2025: Great National Day of Mourning And Other Jan 20th’s Throughout History
Reference: https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/20 … I took some liberties with your list here you “On This Day” folks, apologies. Google: Find black veils. Other search engines: Find black veils (Google threatens other search engines with digital black veils and monopolistic digital rain). Go Duck Go: What are days synonymous with January 20th ? January 20th … 01-20-Year… Continue reading
Frankenberry's Attic 