Hansel and Gretel A-Z

Daily Prompt: Create a short story, piece of memoir, or epic poem that is 26 sentences long, in which the first sentence begins with “A” and each sentence thereafter begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Apples, oranges and chocolate, no more. Bordering on poverty, the parents figured to eat better with two than four. […]

Daily Prompt: Never Say Never Again

Daily Prompt:  Tell us about a thing you’ll never write about. I hate absolutes! My nature is just oppositional enough to resist anything or anyone telling me what I will or won’t do . . . EVER! My initial reaction to this prompt was to say no personal details and no politics. However, I have […]

Gardenias

Daily Prompt:  You receive a gift that is bittersweet and makes you nostalgic. What is it? I rolled from our bed, head throbbing, throat dry.  I struggled to open an eye. Eight am.  Overslept again. The past couple days have been a real struggle.  Let me stop lying . . . at least to myself.  […]

Missing You

Daily Prompt:  Feed Your Senses Write down the first sight, sound, smell, and sensation you experienced on waking up today. Pick the one you’re most drawn to, and write.   The annoying and extremely loud 5 am klaxon of an alarm clock that I stupidly forgot to disengage the night before, yanked me from a […]

Daily Prompt: I’m a believer – Shrek

Daily Prompt:  What song is stuck in your head (or on permanent rotation in your CD  or MP3 player) these days? Why does it speak to you? This is an easy one:  “I’m a Believer” by Smash Mouth.  The one featured in the movie Shrek (2001), not necessarily the version done by The Monkeys. My […]

Bone of Contention – African American Interests

Daily Prompt:  Pick a contentious issue about which you care deeply — it could be the same-sex marriage debate, or just a disagreement you’re having with a friend. Write a post defending the opposite position, and then reflect on what it was like to do that. Let me start this post off by saying that […]

You want the world to accept you but you can’t even accept yourself.

Daily Prompt: Take a quote from your favorite movie — there’s the title of your post. Now, write! Erik Lehnsherr to Raven (X-Men First Class):  “You want the world to accept you but you can’t even accept yourself.” I have been writing for several years now.  I have two novels in progress and about a […]

Musical Musings: My Week in Review

Daily Prompt: Tell us how your week went by putting together a playlist of  five songs that represent it. If you ever took the chance to understand the inner man . . . There ain’t nothing I ever do or say that folk don’t criticize me . . . I’m just a soul whose intentions […]