How

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How these times test our faith, our core of restraint, decency, and sense of continuity …

Yarnspinerr and the Limp Blades: A Friday Fictioneer Steamy Mystery

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“When spinning a steamy yarn, do not look to a fan base.” Confucius, 500 B.C., on the golden rule of steamy yarn-spinning.

Brothers: Friday Fictioneers

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Brothers, siblings, rivals. Always teasing, testing the limits, manipulating. Like some adults we know? Even countries? Presidents, too? OK. So how will this one end?

Does Love Trump All? Or, Does Trump Love All? Or, Do All Love Trump? Tweet Tweet.

Well, my first poem is now posted in, get this, The Rat’s Ass Review. Heck, you got to start someplace. The piece is on a page entitled, “Such an Ugly Time”, reflecting thoughts about the first 100 days of Trump’s … Continue reading →

The Consummate Inn: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Everything is consummated. Fighting with your emotions does not change things, neither does sitting on a couch eating yourself up…

Chop-Chop for the Bourgeoisie: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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A mélange of the masses…

What You Gonna Do Today? The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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We face a choice today, whether we recognize it or not…

There is a Wall: dVerse ~ Poets Pub

We live in a world of walls, comprising all sorts of rooms – most man-made – some concrete, others imaginary – ultimately though, we do not get to choose that last room, do we?

The Last Action News: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Sex, politics, senseless shootings, exploitative news. It’s all here.

Swearing at the Wind: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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Often times we are moved to action only after it is too late…

Of Mice and Babies: Friday Fictioneers

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Like a baby learning to feed himself, learning anything new requires practice, practice, and more practice. Then suddenly the miracle happens. What an oxymoron…

Execration and the Stable Wars: Friday Fictioneers

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Thought and action. Action and thought. Both appear dangerous…

Voice: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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When will the inhumanity end? When will social justice really begin? It’s not just color, it’s fear, greed, ignorance and more…

No Extra Charge for Claustrophobia: Friday’s Little Room of Fictioneers

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Have you heard or seen or even stayed in one of those new mini-rooms that are supposed to save a traveler money? Ever suspect that it’s not being created for savings, but to load tons of more guests into less … Continue reading →

Meandering the Edges of My Mind: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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A sonnet just for you. A little fun. A little struggle. Life met on life’s terms… never easy to fathom.

Coming Upon An Unusual Cast Iron Sculpture With a Hand and A What? ***Picture It and Write

Ever see something pop right out of the ground? Bet’cha not. And neither did these two fellers until…

Entrees, Like Revenge, May Be Served Cold: Limerick Off Monday

Limerick Post (Limerick-Off Monday) of MAD KANE’S HUMOR BLOG challenges readers/writers to write, obviously, LIMERICKS! This week’s suggested first line that I chose was: When the entrée arrived, it was cold…   Entrees, Like Revenge, May Be Served Cold When … Continue reading →

The World Eternal: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:

Fright or Flight: The Wings of Man (Friday Fictioneers)

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Overcoming fear is never easy. I’ve heard it said that you can fight FEAR by:  “Facing Everything And Relaxing”.  Easier said than done…

Ex Friends: Five Sentence Fiction

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Sometimes a friend is not really a friend – or is a friend to the end… Mu-wa-ha-ha-ha

Stealing: Wordle 97

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Life is a pick pocket you better watch out for…

Jesus at a Doorway: Wordle 96

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The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “wordle’s” 12 words. This week’s words are: Jesus at a Doorway A door: to Adore some surly light. A door that leads … Continue reading →

The Fire Burning: Wordle

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Do you have a fire burning within you?

A Batman New Year’s Eve: Picture It and Write

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Don’t tug on Superman’s cape and don’t pull that mask of the old Lone Ranger.

The Pills’ Grim Progress from this Major to that Which is to Come

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Picture It and Write from ermiliablog@wordpress Write a paragraph of fiction or a poem to accompany the image. The picture prompt for this week is below:                         The Pills’ … Continue reading →

Donald Garvey Gets a Calling from God

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Why me, God? Why me?

A Bewitched Silence: Julia’s Place 100WCGU

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What is 100WCGU? Each week there is a prompt: a few connected words, a selection of individual words or a picture. The prompt is: … the silence was deafening …

Lying Here Dying at the Sky: Reason2Rhyme Poetry Prompt – “Here’s Your Sign”

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kbnelson’s Reason2Rhyme Poetry Prompt: “Here’s Your Sign” Transcribe the text of a sign that you encounter. Write maintaining the tone of the sign. I used her sign picture                     Lying Here … Continue reading →

The Bridges of Men – Picture It and Write

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Picture it and write from ermiliablog@wordpress Write a paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. Or, it can be a poem Anyone who wants to join in is welcome. the picture prompt for this week is below:       … Continue reading →

Suffer the Death of Our Fathers

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In Italy fathers are killing themselves, committing suicide, pre-meditated, so that their families will be absolved of debts that they have incurred because of the economy. They see no other alternative.They’re throwing themselves out of buildings, off of bridges, and … Continue reading →

Haiku’s

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These are the haiku’s of party politics, occupy wall and word and world street,  the who-cares and who-gives-a-crap turnpike to the beating down of the beaten down – the old, the poor, the jew and gentile, the gypsy, the uneducated, … Continue reading →

Today we’re “clerihewing” our Facebook editorial from yesterday

Faceless

Zuckerberg’s Eduardo Saverin,
Facebook’s faceless evil twin,
took American dollars ne’er to be seen ag’in, off-shore
to Singapore.

Randy Mazie

Face Off With Facebook’s Eduardo Saverin

Eduardo Saverin was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His father became wealthy, Eduardo became a potential kidnap victim, and the family moved to Miami – to be safe and secure in the arms of America. Eduardo attended high school,  went on to Harvard, … Continue reading →

May 8, 1924… Dad

Today would have been my dad’s 88th birthday. He died a few months ago. From Alzheimer’s. Some of you might think it just old age – it was not. It was the slow thieving by a disease from a man … Continue reading →