Don’t Wanna Be Just Another Fool

Normies panic when I mention that it might be possible to live healthy, drug-free lives without Big Medicine. They brace themselves as if I am a terrorist plotting to disrupt their smooth flowing American life. Maybe we can live into our 80s without popping a cocktail of drugs morning, noon and night. And maybe we [...]

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Quickwrite: A Reasonable Man Cries over Spilt Milk

Dan is reasonable. He’s always on time and never forgets to bring up the paper when he delivers old Mrs. Hanley’s milk. The last delivery on his route, she invites him in each week to test out each new batch. Dan looks forward to the rest and Mrs. Hanley looks forward to the company.
“We need [...]

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Dear Santa…

Okay, it’s 11:51 p.m. on New Years Eve.  I’ve never been very good with deadlines, as you know.  Sorry about that.  But, now that you’ve had about a week’s vacation, I figure you might be more receptive to a request.
Could you please bring me an easier year in 2009?  ‘08 was a bit of a [...]

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A Letter to St. Nick

Dear Santa,
Well, first of all, I don’t believe in you. Ever since that Christmas morning in 7th grade when I woke up and didn’t find a trampoline in the backyard, I’ve known you aren’t legit. And where did you come from, anyway? Who invented you? My hunch is Corporate America (a recent documentary viewing pretty [...]

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For 9/14 meeting

Hey gals. See you at our usual spot at 12:30 on Sun., 9/14. Here’s your mission if you choose to accept it.
1. Revise/Rewrite an earlier piece of your choosing to share at the next meeting.
2. Write about doing what you love. In preparation, do a few quickwrites (5 min.) about [...]

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Funny Horoscope

I read my horoscope this morning, and it looks like “all signs say yes” when it comes to my writing. This was too much fun, and I just had to share it. — js

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Deep Sleep

Have you ever woken up ore been in a place or situation that you have never experienced before? Where and how did it make you feel?
As I moved my hand to scratch away something odd feeling at my nose, I found I couldn’t move either hand. I felt terrified, was I paralyzed? [...]

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Other prompt ideas

Hi guys,
It was great seeing you today! Just wanted to post here the prompt ideas I mentioned at the meeting.
1. The prompt from the First Line journal. “While not the intended effect, the outcome was surprisingly satisfying.” These are due Nov. 1.
2. The Story Circle Journal True Words from Real Women. “A Sacred Place” These [...]

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The Nation of the Challenged (from 8/10 prompt)

Diane Arbus: “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
“What does it mean to go where you’ve never been? Does it mean to go to a new place? Or, to paraphrase Marcel Proust, to see a familiar landscape with new eyes? Write about the experience of going where you’d never been [...]

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Going where I’ve never been

“What does it mean to go where you’ve never been? Does it mean to go to a new place? Or (to paraphrase Marcel Proust) to see a familiar landscape with new eyes? …Write about the experience of going where you’d never been before. What did you see there? How did it make you feel? What [...]

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