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Your Days are Numbered – A Daily Post Sonnet

Today is 11/8/2015 Today dawns on the bones of yesterday. Other than be swept away by regret, Don’t waste what time is given this new day. Accomplish what you may, but don’t forget Your reprieve ends with sunset. Accounting Is closed with the coming of night. When sleep Slides shut this day, do no more adjusting. 1 line per day until… Read more

November 8, 2015
The Dance – A Free Association Prompt Stomp

The Dance Her voice twisted and tangled as it wove a lyric story that took place long ago. Drums pound the way back through time, where we dove into deep pools of magic for the show. A slow telling of mysteries by fire light where each gesture brought revelation. Shadows gather and listen without tire. Perspiration mixed… Read more

November 8, 2015
Truth Serum – A Daily Post Sonnet

Truth Serum Liquid revelation in a test tube, just one sip and you’ll spill all your secrets into my waiting ear. Give me the cube, the nuclear launch codes and don’t forget to sing those account numbers too. Made from shiny purple berries concentrated and distilled into my secret serum. One sip and you are intoxicated.… Read more

November 7, 2015
One Word Photo Challenge – Summer

Squash Blossoms Squash blossoms bloom one day, then crumple, fade before morning next comes. He watched it sit amid squash vines, orphaned babe in lap, spade in hand, motionless as the vines. Sun lit its face giving it a feminine cast. The sword slung at his hip hummed with magic and he wondered what a plain man who’s passed… Read more

November 7, 2015
Six of One–I Broke your Doomsday Clock – A Daily Post Sonnet

I Broke Your Doomsday Clock. Six of one–oops, I broke your doomsday clock. Half a dozen of another smothered it good. Before the hands struck twelve o’clock, kaboom, into smithereens I hammered it leaving nothing left of your doomsday time device. That metaphor I retired and I did it all via smartphone today while in a… Read more

November 6, 2015
Photo-Fiction Challenge #2 – Sharks and Photo Ops

Sharks and Photo Ops Too easy was our escape; the ship bucked, pitched and rolled from missile attack. That bitch gravity gave it a good slap. I tucked into webs of restraints and had to ditch. Into the sea I fell with alien friends and right into a school of sharks because we just couldn’t catch a break.… Read more

November 6, 2015
Dive and Shift

Dive and Shift He leaps, falls, hits mirrored water, shifts– human skin flips to scales. Gills breathe water, exhale oxygen into blood; the shift continues, webs his fingers, toes. Water caresses his sleek new body as he swims. The current tugs him out to sea, its siren call he can’t resist. It carries him out into… Read more

November 6, 2015
Writing 101 Assignment 5 – Legacy

“All that is gold does not glitter…” — JRR Tolkien Legacy (the Legend of the Curse Breaker) Not all gold glitters while some lies hidden. In caves deep and under waters sweet, bides that which can set all to right. Unbidden it rises from the depths to hand the guide knowledge true to right a wrong… Read more

November 5, 2015
Leaving on a Space Ship – A Daily Post Sonnet

Leaving on a Space Ship If I leave earth and trade it for the stars, never can I return home. The rocket’s red glare, escape velocity, no bar. past our planet’s dance in our space pocket, I go into outer space to explore, to boldly go where no woman has gone before. To sail the milky way, to soar… Read more

November 5, 2015
Flash Fiction Challenge – Zombies vs Healer

The Necromancer vs the Healer The necromancer raised them row by row, ripped from death’s sleep, the zombies sprang from graves. An army shambles bent on overthrow, its mauve-robed leader can’t ever be saved. Drawn by death’s cold touch and stench of decay, a healer comes with life’s power in his veins. His touch turns zombies to dust, and waylays the… Read more

November 5, 2015