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Thursday, July 23, 2009

3 Word Wednesday CXLVII

Written for 3WW
The words this week are:
Cradle, Perfect, and Snare.

Here's mine:

VOODOO DOLL
"Oh, what a perfect day!" she exclaimed, opening the bedroom curtains. She rocked the cradle so violently that even the voodoo doll screamed. Picking it up, she stuffed its head between the springs under the snare drum.
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The American Sandwich game...

Flash Fiction in 51 syllables, with a poetic filling.

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Take a bite...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Tuesday Challenge!!

Like a bomb ticking, like a heart beating, time is about to erupt.

Like a heart beating
time is about to erupt
Like a bomb ticking

Like a heart beating
Time is about to erupt
LIKE A BOMB TICKING
About to erupt, time is
like a heart beating
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Poetry Train Revisited.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

TOP prompt: : Blinking Lights

Written for Totally Optional Prompts


SPACE JUNK

Walking on the sands towards the sea

the moon waxing or waning

stars flashing like blinking lights

a shooting star, drops behind the horizon.

Walking back, the shooting star returns,

pointing up into the sky above us.

Completes the circle of the earth,

then falls out of the sky.

Shining like silver, it lands on the beach,

we run towards it, what else can we do?

A little girl picks it up, shakes it,

throws it back down, ‘Space Junk,’ she says.

It looks like a bicycle lamp to me

and there are little letters stamped on it

that make words that say:

Made in Hong Kong.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Three Word Wednesday CXLVI

Written for 3WW
The words this week are:
Drip, Hypnotic, and Sulk.

Here's mine:

She was as hypnotic as a narcotic drip, he'll sulk when she's gone.

Hypnotic washers
never sulk over spilt milk,
wash, rinse, and drip dry.

Chino's pulp dry kit
could be an anagram of:
HYPNOTIC SULK DRIP
could be an anagram of:
Chino's pulp dry kit
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

post 154

The American Sandwich game...

Flash Fiction in 51 syllables, with a poetic filling.

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences. Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables. Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Here's one inspired by Stan Ski's NaiSaiKu:

JAMAICA STREET BY BUS

I took the seventy seven bus to one five four Jamaica street. It cost three hundred and eight Zloty, which is about sixty two pounds. I could have flown there cheaper, on flight one five four seventy seven.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Three Word Wednesday CXLV

Written for 3WW
the words this week are:
Gloom, Kneel, and Transparent.

Here's mine:

I kneel in the road, transparent as a squashed frog in the morning gloom.

JUST A GAME
Even though Gloom is just a game, rabid flesh eating mice can still bite. He played another transparent card, hoping that this would be the end. I'll know I've won, when I see her kneel at her wedding, he tells himself.
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Transparent pollen
Gloom smells worse than rotten eggs
kneel down Pokemon
POCKET MONSTER ANIME
Kneel down Pokemon
Gloom smells worse than rotten eggs
transparent pollen
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

TOP PROMPT

SUMMERTIME BLUES
Hi everybody, sorry I've not been able to post much lately, I'm blaming the weather of course. The truth is that it's too hot in Manchester at the minute. And even when it rains, as it has this morning, it's still so stuffy. Anyway, enough of the complaining, what's on the menu today?

Here's a little something I wrote during the week:

DANCE THE

MOOD AWAY

no it’s not

that I ain’t got

nobody to talk to,

‘cos you know

that I got you.

it’s just that

I ain’t got

a lot to say.

I’d rather throw

another record on

my turntable, and

let the music play.

don’t go feelin’ blue

but if you do do

spin a disc or two

then go like this, and

dance the mood away

that’s why they do it

on the radio

about a million

zillion times a day

don’t need no

fancy Wurlitzer

duke box

no you don’t

need no

superstar deejay

just a gramophone

and some forty-fives

and a ra-ra skirt

if you wanna flirt

and a dance or two

that we both can do...

Chorus

Then repeat from top

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