Tag Archives: abuse

Weekend Writing Prompt #13 – Light

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Michael

Image: Google: Labelled for re-use I’d lived in darkness so long. My past was abuse and ridicule. When I met, you I thought you like everyone else wouldn’t care who I was. But you persevered, hung in there, giving me … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver #127: Nursery Rhyme Rifts 06.07.17 – Muffet

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Michael

image: jo dover, fineartamerica.com The assignment this week: take a nursery/Mother Goose rhyme, tongue twister or song, and give it a new spin. Modernize it, analyze it, hypo–theoreticalize it, satirize it, serialize it, fantasize it . . . then weave … Continue reading →

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Music Prompt #6: “The Cave” By Mumford & Sons #musicchallenge #amwriting #music 

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Michael

There were days I wondered Did you have a heart? Days when the torment Just never stopped. We’d go somewhere Potential to be good You’d find issue in a word Pull me aside, in front of family Berate me as … Continue reading →

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Twittering Tales #7 – 6 December 2016 – Dilemma

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Michael

He came to the difficult part. His abuse. His children knew nothing. Should he omit it? Pretend it never happened. Bury it forever? Dilemma. (140 characters) Written for: https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/twittering-tales-7-6-december-2016/

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FFfAW Challenge – Week of November 29, 2016 – My Sister

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Michael

Image: thanks to Louise at ‘The Storyteller’s Abode”. My sister was a snob there was no two ways about it. She looked down her nose at everyone. It was mother’s fault. As my sister’s role model, a haughtier woman, you’d … Continue reading →

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Thursday photo prompt – Secrets #writephoto

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Michael

No one knew what went on or why it did at 83 Dell Street. It was years before the secrets came out. In a darkened room, curtains drawn, anything was possible. Monsters could roam free; terror was a way of … Continue reading →

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Microfiction challenge #15: Freedom

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Michael

Image: Ilya Repin The priest had woken her just before dawn urging her to be ready. It was the day, the day they made their escape into freedom. For months she had languished in the basement hiding for fear of … Continue reading →

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Writing Prompt July 17th: Arcana in the Tower

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Michael

Image: Tom Scholes The Tower is commonly interpreted as meaning danger, crisis, destruction, and liberation. This is a card of warning and possibility – create something new from something that ends in the will and limits of time alone. A … Continue reading →

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Thursday Photo Prompt – Mine -#writephoto – Brother Thaddeus

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Michael

Brother Thaddeus sifted slightly moving his weight from one knee to the other. He’d been in this position an hour at least he was thinking. All for a minute’s lateness for early morning meditations. His knees pained him, his back … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge #121 – A Girl With No Face

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Michael

Image: – Olney IL When they found you It was with initial relief Missing all those days No word, no sightings Hours spent wondering where and why, What if they came back with… But then they saw you In the … Continue reading →

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