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A Cigarette at Dusk
In the gloom of dusk, under the light of a single overhead bulb, she sits at the kitchen table with a cigarette balanced between two fingers. The smoke twists and twirls, waltzing away into the long night. A pile of bobby pins and a stray hair elastic teeter at the wood’s edge, half discarded from…
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Daily Writing Prompt #4
Since time immemorial, the kitchen has been considered a sort of “heart of the home”; the activities going on here are the central chores that enable us to go about the rest of our days, our bellies full and warm. You can even see our societies’ changing values over class, race, gender, families, and a…
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Daily Writing Prompt #3
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” — Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II Names are a funny thing—everyone’s got one. Most of us don’t even choose our own, yet we’re content with what we’ve been labelled. We even build entire personalities around…
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Daily Writing Prompt #2
When we actually think about labour, physical, mental and emotional all taken into consideration and treated with fair weighting, it’s usually just plain awful. And when I say labour, I mean real labour not that labour of love, hobby or personal interest kind. The type that forces you to be reliant on it for your…
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Daily Writing Prompt #1
I’ve never responded to one of WordPress’s daily writing prompts, but seeing this one I couldn’t help but come up with something. First let me introduce the lady of the hour, Lily. My rather large rescue cat of about 9 or 10 years old is quite the character. Over the years with a lot of…
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