Tag: word prompt

Flash Fiction, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Born This Way

Tina Stewart Brakebill

What would he say when he saw them? Sparkly and pink, they matched her t-shirt and her lip gloss. Or would have, if she’d been brave enough to wear lip gloss. Baby steps. That’s her plan. Painted nails today. Maybe painted lips next week.

What was she so afraid of? She needed to live her true life. She needed to tell him! And she would. Soon.

Still, she remembered his menacing tone before last year’s talent show. “No son of mine is going to strut around like a painted whore!”

So, less Gaga. And more … what?

Baby steps.

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Thanks to Carrot Ranch for a great FF challenge.

You Are Loved. Thanks Gaga.

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

bleeding heart

Tina Stewart Brakebill

taste my bleeding heart  

its sweetness drowned in fury  

battered by the fight

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In the words of the fabulous Dixie Chicks I’m Not Ready to Make Nice so (try as I might) not even the word prompts of sweet/heart could quell my rage. But thanks for trying Ronovan Writes.

 

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Already Lost

Tina Stewart Brakebill

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the battle goes on

but we’ve already lost 

as bullets rain down

This month marks the the anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State killings. This week, another shooter shot up another campus and the week before that another shooter shot up … and so on and so on…. Plus, I live in Florida where the @#*#@ legislature passed some truly awful things this week including arming teachers and stripping away voting rights with what is essentially a poll tax! I’m in a hopeless kind of mood and Linda’s SoCS prompt to write about something that “falls from the sky” and Fandango’s FOWC prompt  “battle” inspired this sad little haiku.

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