Frankenberry's Attic

A Frankenblog

  • At The Edge Of The Surf (and dreaming) – (poem)

    So the latest prompt at dVerse Poets asked to take into consideration Pablo Neruda’s poem “The Wide Ocean” and the line … “Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit of your gifts and destructions …” . At The Edge Of The Surf (and dreaming) I sat at the edge of… Continue reading

  • Reason? (flash fiction)

    From a dVerse Prosery flash fiction prompt that asked to use the line “every day unfurls as it must” but top out at 144 words ////////////////////////////////////////// Reason? The student asked the teacher why everything was so cryptic, so much the riddle, why couldn’t he be more straightforward, forthcoming? The teacher said nothing They sat   … Continue reading

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  • Crab (poem)

    There was prompt at dVerse poets earlier this week that asked to use the word “crab”. Now I completely blew by the 44 word call of a dVerse Quadrille but … Crab I am not a jazzy Crawdad, or a belly Catfish bottom feed or a Flounder floundering for hope or a Pike on a… Continue reading

  • Day Broke Night Fell Day (poem)

    So a new prompt at dVersepoets.com, It Begins to Dawn, says, to begin the post, “After our summer break, we’re beginning again, beginning afresh, like a new dawn perhaps” with a couple of examples of dawn, one as the start of a day or another with dawn as a verb. It then offers up the prompt… Continue reading

  • Cats Dream Too

    So a flash fiction prompt here from Melissa … Hello! Welcome to Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge. Each week I will post an image I grab off the internet and challenge bloggers to write a flash fiction piece or a poem inspired by the image. There are no style or word limits. The image below… Continue reading

  • So Then Sunday: Baby General’s Golden Black Heart’s Band / Sky’s Orange When You’ve Got Blind Friends (song)

    Haven’t posted one in a little while so was torn on a So Then Sunday for today. Something fairly recent or maybe something a bit older? I know that sounds ridiculous right? But well to end this silly quandary I thought I’d go back to the early parody days but something that is still pretty… Continue reading

  • Engineers and “Oh … that Frankenberry!”

    Had to head into the “rack room” earlier today just to check on whether I could still hear the smallest of our radio stations in their little speaker. Thankfully that was all I had to do, a simple enough task which is good. You don’t want a ME in the rack room (the main engine… Continue reading

  • Zero’s … A Big Birthday’s As Some Might Say

    They have this habit of popping up every ten years or so, these zero’s, you could say that they add up but do they really? They are just zero’s right, only with a new number in front of them? I mean sure, that new number in front of them is an incremental thing, I can… Continue reading

  • That Bella Look (a cat story)

    Ok, zoom in … Now Bella gives me this look quite often, that Bella “look”. It’s what she does. She can be quite judgmental in her looks and stares as I imagine them to be personified, relationshipped, said judgey. I know this is simply a Bella look, but it shares face with old looks and… Continue reading

  • And Frankenberry took a selfie (a revised post)

    (I’ve posted this before, Frankenberry Took A Selfie, but it makes me laugh and that’s all that really matters, so I thought I’d post it again, plus it’s Friday and I’m bored and whatever that might mean for justification) I don’t do selfies for obvious reason … “Steve, move your phone … no, move it… Continue reading

-The Cricket

-Bella

-Arthur

-Saphira

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