Title: Timed Choreography
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 155 – Tune
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 10 words
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He whistled a vivacious tune while his pit crew raced.
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Title: Nature’s Alchemy
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 154 – Fiber
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 131 words
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Crystal jars, tinted bottles, and woven baskets crowded the shelf-lined room. Identical labels with precise black handwriting adorned each vessel. Elena inched into the space, confused by the overwhelming volume of items. Her fingers traced unfamiliar words.
“Kamala Seed Pods, Madder Root, Mangosteen Peel,” her lips moved silently. As she continued reading, the chaos dissolved, replaced by an odd sense of order.
“What color does Pomegranate Rind render?”
Elena picked up the jar, shaking the rose-hued contents before she turned to face Mistress Moiree.
“Pink?”
“Guessing?” Mistress Moiree asked and extended her hand.
Elena felt the heat of embarrassment in her cheeks as she relinquished the container.
“They look red,” she said rolling the glass in her hands, “but when boiled, they dye mordanted fibers a golden yellow. You will learn.”
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Title: Spring’s Advent
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 152 – Nomad
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 68 words
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Dismal clouds shrouded winter mountaintops. Cloaks of despair, they wept, their sorrow drenching the landscape. Parched souls, clinging to life, found solace in the mother’s healing tears.
Breathless, I waited.
Brown became gold as nomad tinkers arrived. Singing children frolicked. Their laughter summoned sunshine, and magical colors transformed the valley. Continually moving, they were always at home. Their work complete, they disappeared beyond the horizon, leaving hope behind.
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Title: Home Sweet Souvenir
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 151 – Keepsake
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 49 words
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Every penny went to pay the mortgage on my first house. Cash for furnishings was in short supply.
The family dubbed me the Keepsake Klepto when they discovered their sentimental items decorating my home.
Laughing, they let me keep their kitsch, saying it was cheaper than a garage sale.
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Title: Family Tradition
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 150 – Continuity
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 35 words
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Past generations whisper reassurances. Embroiled in uncertainty, consumed by today, legacy bolsters my future.
The continuity comforts me through trials and tribulations. Loved ones walked this land, they struggled, persevered, survived.
I am never alone.
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Title: Whiskey Smash
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 149 – Muddle
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 16 words
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Muddle strawberry, mint, and sugar in a glass.
Add Whiskey and ice.
That’s a Whiskey Smash.
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Title: An Imperceptible Loss
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 145 – Abysmal
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 93 words
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You suspected a thunderbolt, exposing a grand drama. The truth wasn’t glamourous. Dull, daily life was peppered with subtle thoughts, vague feelings, and easy decisions. A tiny rival of water snaked across flat ground, growing, gaining strength and power until it became a raging river cutting into the landscape and eroding rock-solid canyon walls.
An unbridgeable distance cleaved what once was inseparable. I outgrew my placid past and soon discovered my desire for freedom. There was nothing left to say. We stood staring across an abysmal chasm that echoed the sound of silence.
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Title: Averting Annihilation
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 148 – Somnambulist
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 78 words
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In the far future, Roya foresaw horrible suffering, chaos, and terror. Her lips moved, but she was unaware if she spoke the words aloud. Her hands stretched before her, grasping thin air, she fought unseen daemons, yet still searching for something beyond her grasp.
Duncan trembled as he studies her eyes, dark with bewilderment and as blank as those of a somnambulist.
Roya gasped. Present again.
“We can prevent it all. But first we must take the castle.”
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Title: Life Signs
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 147 – Perplex
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 90 words
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He was an odd sort, friendly, mischievous, intriguing. I assumed he had forgotten me when my phone buzzed. His text served to perplex me further. Hyperlinked numbers connected to a map with a destination in the middle of nowhere. Answers to my questions lay in the palm of my hand.
A desolate road ended at a ghost town. Dilapidated buildings clustered together, lending each other the courage to stand.
Except one. Unbroken glass in freshly painted casings spoke of arrested neglect. I climbed the stairs and knocked on his door.
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Title: Legacy
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 146 – Epoch
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 27 words
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My reign was epoch. The gods smiled, guided my hand, blessed my people, protected us in troubled times. Now they signaled it was time to rise again.
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