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I guess there’s a reason I don’t do this sort of thing. It’s a bit like cheating. Maybe a picture says a thousand words, it does mean that’s a thousand words you are not writing. A vide...

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“I guess you must have been disappointed.” “I guess I must have been.” I didn’t have anything else, it had been years since I had thought about never seeing him again. He was a story I told whe...

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“Accident on the seventy five,” I said before she could ask me why I was late. “Your dinner is on the table”. Cold. She was cold. Dinner was cold. My apartment was perpetual winter. “Hon?” “Wh...

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I was at the animal control kennel. “It’s not the preaching that bugs me, it’s the dogma.” Rex was looking at me from his cage with that hangdog look. I tried hard to convey ‘I’m not the idiot...

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The stuff below the double gray line was one of those desktop orphans, I closed a bunch of windows and there he was twitching in some sort of paroxysm of hunger, grief or something organic. Eutha...

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Sun sets on autumnal football field, high school kids, savage, suicidal, immortal in the bloody light dying through orange maple leaves. Praise Jesus and bring a litter.

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Your challenge is to create a short story where the setting is a character and plays a role in what happens. It should be an active setting. It might be a phone booth that travels through time or...

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I’m like a bad gender cliché; I don’t look at the map and I don’t read instructions. Giving me a bit of credit I do have a good sense of direction and can figure most things out with a manual; my...

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There are some advantages to being built the way I am, that is built like a pit-bull. Advantages other than the obvious being wicked sexy. The pit-bull swagger is not an arrogant sense of entitle...

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Sorry about all the lyric entries. I don’t feel obliged to do the haredawg shtick here, so they weren’t gratuitous. I’ve had entire discographies stuck in my head for the past few weeks. It’s a d...

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This is going to be didactic and it’s stuff you probably already know and if you don’t this won’t help much, so if you have something better to do I strongly urge you to do it. I was going to lea...

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Do ye ken john peel at the break of day? Do ye ken john peel with his coat so gay? Do ye ken john peel when he’s far far away, With his hounds and his horns in the morning? --- Traditional Jo...

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Flipped He flipped the card; the queen of Spades. The black bitch. I watched another paycheck go into the arms of someone who did not love it. Silo The silo squatted cold and stark against...

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Ok, so it’s like this see … I was a little too pissy on Wednesday and Thursday to add some fine detail to having had to have hung out in the motherfucking Emergency God Damn Room. The first smoke...

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Asshat, alcohol, Aver Bogie, Benevolent, Bistro Catalyst, Cranked, Catty Dysphoria, Disdain, dilettante Eyesore, Edgewise, Egregious

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fait accompli Pots. Pilfering. Poltergeists. stained glass, blood on my feet, the ugly sister G cayenne, bark, kilometer bespoke, mantra, dash deviation, ...

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I’ve got shit to do tomorrow. I know, weird, right? But it’s true just the same. If things work out well instead of flash fiction I will be covered in wet dirty dog hair, but even if that’s not h...

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One of the many perks to prosebox is that my family lurkers haven’t quite discovered it yet. I have this thing about staying public. I’m sure there’s more than a pinch of conceit in that stew, bu...

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So my little sister calls last night at some reasonable hour, 10:17 ish, she’s walking the dogs and says “I just want to say I love and that I’m sorry your life hasn’t turned out the way you want...

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I've been online a very long time. I hadn't changed my icon on purpose, but I knew how too, even with a button that says "change ico" and then "choose file". I know the icon I changed is not cent...

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Four Something PM I wrote the stuff below, I mean the paragraphs below, earlier. I napped. I woke up as I understand people do, at the tail the end of a dream. I understand it’s the “tail end” b...

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Ok. I’d miss these prompts if I didn’t use them now. I don’t hold things very long or very deep. So we’re calling this flash Sunday, we meaning me. I can’t tell you the time per flash, but I star...

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Writing direct to prosebox (not word) So I'm going out into the world cause I'm out of smokes, I look into my rearview and think "Oh my, what startling blue eyes you have, beautiful. How is peo...

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Morning coffee klatch with my mom is over, and if I planned my days here I’d be figuring out what I was going to do or already out doing it. I cruised prosebox to see who all is there, as in the ...

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"He's lying." "Guess who just walked in?" --- prompts from the prompt pile “Morning Saul” “Heh” came the voice from the speakers. After thirteen months in space you get tired of a computer voice...

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