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April 12, 2013 04:01 PM UTC --
Ever Heard of the expression “wool-gathering?” Imagine Gather as an old man, patches on elbows and food in the corners of his mouth, squeal and burble of vanilla-scented tobacco being . . .
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March 30, 2013 05:23 PM UTC --
Reflections off this viral video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEBLt6Kd9EY
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Yet another blistering gust along La Rive . . .
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March 27, 2013 04:47 PM UTC --
Some people call me the ‘fridge-raider
Some call me the gangster of Dove
Some people call me enormous
Cause I eat all the packages and tubs. . . .
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March 18, 2013 05:05 PM UTC --
Once, long ago, there lived a little bunny—not particularly strong—who dwelled bayside, in a land of perpetual autumn, and not far from a magic well. It was there she drank deep of . . .
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March 10, 2013 04:54 PM UTC --
She followed me into the break room and cornered me by the coffee pot. I poured my second cup of the day as she lit into me; this was an all-too-familiar scenario. I’d tried to time my coffee . . .
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March 02, 2013 02:51 PM UTC --
“MmmmBaaaa…tick tick tick...Mmmmbaaaaaaa!”
Cute, fluffy, not too bright , but deadly to the uninformed, unaware, or hard of hearing. They travel alone, or in the . . .
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February 25, 2013 04:42 PM UTC --
Tracy Fabre's Prompt: There is a list of great bad headlines here.
http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Text/Newspaper.html
Among them are the classics:
Eye Drops off . . .
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February 21, 2013 05:02 PM UTC --
Tracy Fabre's Prompt: Greetings! There is a list of great bad headlines here: http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Text/Newspaper.html
What I'd like you to do is choose one of the . . .
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February 19, 2013 10:36 PM UTC --
There’s a town on Arizon, 20 kliks from a ruined moonbase at the far edge of what the Space Cowboy Coalition calls the 66 th Quadrant. The planet to which Arizon had been attached is . . .
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February 07, 2013 05:51 PM UTC --
Another savage yank on the starter cord, and the motor sputters, coughs, chugs like an old guy in a Wisconsin outhouse, gives a final explosive fart and stalls. The damn snow-blower is obviously . . .
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January 31, 2013 03:19 PM UTC --
“Can you assist me with my mobile armoire?” Susie batted her flirty fringes, thick as a German forest. “Its mass per unit size is approximately ten to one.” The Debutante . . .
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January 28, 2013 12:27 PM UTC --
Water, water everywhere, and nary a drop to drink.
That’s what I thought when I surveyed the upstairs bedroom. The mattress resembled a giant garbage bag, shag carpet a soggy . . .
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January 13, 2013 06:54 PM UTC --
Con and Tracy's Prompt: In a comment on his post today, Con Chapman said he wanted to go into the business of providing writing prompts.
I "hired" him (pro bono, of . . .
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January 09, 2013 05:49 PM UTC --
Tracy Fabre's Prompt:
Happy New Year! And Gnu's Ear!
Don't ask me to explain the origins of this prompt. I've been under attack by A K iller C old.
You are a young . . .
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December 17, 2012 05:24 PM UTC --
Tracy Fabre's Prompt: In the spirit of Christmas, whether you like it or not (Christmas, that is, not Shortie prompts), I want you to write your own version of "The Twelve Days of . . .
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December 14, 2012 05:32 PM UTC --
Many, many years ago, when the red planet was untamed and sparsely populated--not like it is now, with its towering star scrapers and rumbling freewheelways—Schmitties roamed the plains, and there . . .
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December 10, 2012 03:28 PM UTC --
(For American Folk Artist Grandma Moses)
Anna Mary lived on a farm,
Picked up a needle, wool into charm,
Artistry blossomed while stockings were . . .
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December 07, 2012 04:17 PM UTC --
Mary, Mary quite contrary
How does your readership grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells,
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December 07, 2012 01:31 PM UTC --
This is Geoff.
Geoff is a lonely boy. Geoff has tried everything to get a date. He’s tried Match.com. He’s tried E-Harmony. He’d try Amazon except it scares . . .
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November 21, 2012 12:01 PM UTC --
Black Friday approacheth, to be followed by many more shopping days until Christmas, each accompanied by a blizzard of catalogs pleading, bullying, entreating me to buy whatever they happen to be . . .
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Liz H.
somewhere over the rainbow
You want fries with that? With THAT?!?!!
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