Tag: writing prompt
member name: Susan Budig
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September 13, 2009 02:55 AM EDT --
Sail Away
I’ve had my ear to the rail forty-six days and counting. Three yards up the line, my sister huddles, waiting, same as me.
Hearing something I jerk my head up, study the horizon. . . .
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June 18, 2009 02:48 AM EDT --
a foreign word or phrase
five stones
another time era
wink
With freshly baked potatoes in their pockets and five roasted stones lining the footer of the sleigh, Laura squeezed in next to Pa . . .
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August 14, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
I wrote this from a prompt I gave myself, including a time limit. It somewhat fits Nancy's prompt on Friday Writing Essentials. I made a couple edits today, for clarity. fyi, . . .
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September 09, 2009 01:14 AM EDT --
"A glass of water, s'il vous plait, sir?" she asked in a voice quite humble. He stared as if she were a Wiccan faerie, then tossed in the air his baseball. "Get the bloody water youse-self, ye bitch," . . .
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July 08, 2009 02:26 AM EDT --
LM commented on my poetry blog saying, " this is what confuses me about poetry. [Your poem] “ Learning ” looked like nothing more than a short story that was broken up into short . . .
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August 26, 2009 04:57 AM EDT --
Bet you've heard a person say, "I should write a book!" Do they mean it? If so, what's stopping them? What about you? Do you want to write a book? Or a magazine article? . . .
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September 02, 2009 03:55 AM EDT --
My kids have all returned to school now. A couple weeks ago I took my freshman daughter to Cottey College , an all-women's junior college eight hours away in Missouri. One of the . . .
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May 30, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
10:13 in the morning. I'm waiting for the phone to ring. Mother's house was always immaculate. Aunt Peggy is outside, now, looking at the hydrangeas, wondering . . .
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July 01, 2009 03:16 AM EDT --
Femi Kuti performed at the Minnesota Zoo last night. King Sunny Adé opened the show. What struck me is the stage presence that Kuti commanded. He was not timid . . .
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July 01, 2009 03:52 AM EDT --
Pearl Ocean swung her handbag over
t he cart’s handlebar, smacking
. . .
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July 09, 2009 06:14 AM EDT --
The words piled up on my paper like autumn leaves on a windy day. Fidelity, Matrimony, oath, break, broke HellCats! What did they all mean when linked? Anagrammed and dancing on the page
My sentence . . .
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August 05, 2009 03:06 AM EDT --
I heard a report on the radio the other day about children learning to read at the age of two years. I wasn't impressed with the aspect of earliness for two reasons. One, I think early . . .
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July 15, 2009 01:43 AM EDT --
I'm on vacation. My in-laws have . . .
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July 22, 2009 02:28 AM EDT --
Is your writing true? Do you tell the truth or fudge on the details?
I write for newspapers--that is, I used to. Both of my papers informed me this month that they could no longer . . .
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July 29, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Hey y’all. I’m here in the Crescent City writing on a public library computer . I tried to submit my column last night, on time, but a glitch in submissions with Gather . . .
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July 30, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
Somehow it has come to this, even after all I’ve done
Without regard, sagacity, for a thousand years they’ve used me,
Like slate and chalk, a paper journal, rejected; I feel your . . .
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August 12, 2009 01:06 AM EDT --
I've been working on finding a venue to publish an audio-essay that I've written and produced. Just tonight, after returning from a terrific bike ride, I checked my e-mail to discover another rejection . . .
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August 19, 2009 01:32 AM EDT --
Recently a musician I know had eye surgery. At a gig of his that I attended in New Orleans, he exclaimed, " For the first time in my life I can see clearly !" This comment piqued . . .
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September 09, 2009 02:37 AM EDT --
How does time work for you? Always running behind time? Are you johnny-on-the-spot, sometimes to the dismay of the hosts? Do you find yourself wishing for an extra hour in the day? . . .
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July 20, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
Jazzmin was fifteen the first time the doctor broke her bag of waters. “It didn’t hurt at first,” she said, “but then I screamed, ‘You beast!” With the last push, . . .
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