This week in the InMonalaxy: Growling lawn-fighting implements that make me feel badass. And baked ravioli!
And now for our top stories:
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The Rules
There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.
OR
No really; I need rules!
Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.
The Prompts:
Cloud Storage
Locked Open
Skin Relatives
Iron Butterfly*
Dead Language
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Happy writing!
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* Innagadadavida, honey.
Used “Locked Open” for my WIP.
http://thinspiralnotebook.com/2015/09/15/the-past-comes-calling/
Ours was a team effort. We used them all!
http://peppersfetch.blogspot.com/2015/09/in-gadda-da-vida.html
I just had to use Iron Butterfly: https://article94.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/governed-by-time/
Here’s my rather odd response for the week…
https://17thandwest.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/flash-fiction-ruminations-locked-open/
Not much of a short story, but…it exists?
Baked ravioli makes you feel badass? Does it give you superpowers?
Haha. Technically, in context, the lawn-fighting implements would make me feel ravioli, rather than ravioli making me feel badass. But I’ll claim poetic license and be done with it.
If the period were a comma, yes, but unless I’m mistaken the period can imply that the second sentence has the same conclusion as the first, therefore baked ravioli makes you feel badass, just as growling lawn-devourers do. ^_^
Plus, I’m none-too-sure what “feel badass and baked ravioli” means… O_o
Ah, but beginning the sentence with a conjunction makes it an incomplete sentence and indicates the period is only there for emphasis and should be treated like a comma. Now, as to “feeling baked ravioli,” an objective observer could only assume that “baked” is a euphemism for “inebriated,” and since the ravioli in question was stuffed with cheese, the phrase might indicate that I was high and making very bad jokes…In which case I think I prefer your original interpretation.
No doubt you are right. This is what comes from having instinctual rather than concrete grammar. Punctuation has never been my thing. 😉
Still, I like the idea of super powers via baked ravioli.
Meh, I’d say most of mine is instinctual, too. My English education from high school forward was, shall we say, extremely informal. But I guess I’ve had some experience defending grammatical choices to clients. : )
Possible inmon prompts?
torrential drought
Sol food
caring neglect
dual duel
tall horizon
unmind games
Hey folks! Cutting it to the end (as is oft my habit!) with this very random, off-the-top-of-my-head action adventure.
Used the prompts “dead language” and “iron butterfly”. Hope you guys are entertained!
https://anansisweb.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/vengeance-amidst-the-flame-short-story/