slapdashmonuments
Joined Ficlatté in September 2014
232 stories, 1 challenge, 1 prompt, 230 comments, and 37 friends
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Inspiration hits with a flash, stories written on the go. A rumble of laughter and the tale is heard only in echoes. The wind blows me in a new direction. Whom shall I visit next?
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Nightmarish Anxiety (in Verse)
I'm heading on a trip quite soon
My open suitcase nearly filled
I should be glad, I shall see friend…
Published 6 years ago.
Cold Glow of Morning
I thought I’d get to kiss your face
And hold your hand when you were sad.
I thought you’d stay, that…
Published 6 years ago.
Class M
There are no new planets
Any more than there are new kinds of people
.
These planets around Trappist…
Published 6 years ago.
The Paws that Refresh
I hugged my mount in that way he loved, with my legs and claws, and he took the hint at once. We fle…
Published 6 years ago.
A wailing, rainy night. One of the most beautiful things.
A wailing, rainy night. One of the most beautiful things.
I smiled into the raindrops and they flow…
Published 6 years ago.
I lik the breach
Into the breach
Dear buddys, yup!
Or with our dead
The wall fill up.
In peace it’s groovy
To be chi…
Published 6 years ago.
I lik to be
to be or not?
I feel so mobile
shifting. which one
Is more noble?
Suffering with
Sticks or rocks
O…
Published 6 years ago.
The Darkness (2/2)
Well, it's hard to stay chipper, to keep up my hope.
Such dark thoughts crowd my mind in a throng!
A…
Published 6 years ago.
The Darkness (1/2)
Do we ever recover from blows that we're dealt?
Do we just learn to live with the dent?
Does the sti…
Published 6 years ago.
Adversity Song
Boldly I fear, oh so boldly I stride,
For I dare to be frightened! I shan't be denied!
There are oth…
Published 6 years ago.
The Ballad of Duluth (2/2)
CHORUS:
And it all will come down to Duluth,
Where they first shot me down in my youth.
Yes, my fr…
Published 6 years ago.
The Ballad of Duluth (1/2)
When the Moulton returns to the beach by the glen
And the sappers respond to the sea,
When the paupe…
Published 6 years ago.
A Smudge on the Mind
I could see better before; I recall that night clearly.
.
I was clean, intact, as night fell. I thin…
Published 6 years ago.
Three Word Prompt: Drawstring Relationship
We are grommets along the edge of an old drawstring tucker.
You on one far edge and I, the other.
At…
Published 6 years ago.
Three Word Prompt: Conglomerate
It pours down me, eroding away my uniform, my costume
The entropy brought by weather is my new dis…
Published 6 years ago.