Meg Tuite July Day 2

This isn't a romantic relationship. It's about someone important who recently exited my life. Instead of writing explicitly about them, I wrote about some ominous snake dreams I had when I first met them and others I had before they exited my life. I don't think this...

Geniuses, they were called. Because they had solved the problem of what to do with the windows the neighbors wouldn’t open. The neighbors’ children were always looking through the windows, signaling, but the neighbors were always saying they didn’t have any children....

its own living thing vast and disparate as the kingdom of birds and you only left behind your dog-eared Audubon's I identify the loss by the flutey voice of those small-bodied flutterers that weigh nothing for their hollow bones My dreams grackle me awake with the...

I accidentally posted without being logged in. I noticed a typo or two anyway, so please read this version. Thanks! I see you, vagabond, bird of passage, rolling in wanderlust, I hear the trumpet sound of longing crash into a siege of hourglasses, together we are a...

This is what I can do today and is a bit flat. I didn't get to the point of writing out of the awkward situation. It was going to be a brief piece about spontaneous combustion or something similar, but instead, I sit in a head cheese sandwich. Maybe this is just the...

(I wrote this from the last prompt yesterday and wanted to post today!) She listened with one eye closed. I devoured with one nostril open. She minueted around the flat, flattening F and sharping E. I felt my drowsy way through an epidermal ellipsis, while sharpening...

Lunatic Impromptu A fire occurred last evening in the “Lodge,” a four-story building on the eastern side of Blackwell’s Island … used for the confinement of refractory female lunatics. There were at the time nearly 100 patients in the building, but all were safely...

[Note: I had to do my writing early this morning before the Day 2 prompts were up, so I worked with one of the prompts from Day 1…I was intrigued by the idea of verbs being nouns, but I reversed it with nouns being verbs and, being me, after working on it a bit more...

Day 2 Writing!