Monthly Archives: March 2012

A Real Horror Story

The divorce was final.  Finally free.  Why had she been true to someone so thoroughly sadistic, mentally and physically? “Janet?”  The nurse calling her back in. Doctor:  “Your lab work says you’re pregnant.” ——————————— I broke my own rule, to not enter the Trifextra weekend … Continue reading

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I Dreamed About You

The beautiful student shimmied in to the professor’s office.  He closed and locked the door behind her.  “I dreamed about having sex with you and burying you.”  She couldn’t escape his chloroform handkerchief. ——————- (for the Trifecta Trifextra 33 word weekend challenge–a … Continue reading

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A Sweet, Sweet Mid-Week Poem For You

With apologies bold In all truth you’ll be told It seems lately I’ve patience for nothing I am stuck in a rut Having no wife or slut And I just want to hear my Sinead sing All your writing is … Continue reading

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Top Ten Things I Want My Horoscope To Tell Me

My (Sagittarius) horoscope today reads: You have reason to be ever so cautiously optimistic. Expecting to have an easy road will make the road harder. Conversely, preparing for hardship somehow makes you rather magically immune to it. Which, I guess, … Continue reading

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If You Only Knew

To be brief: I promise some stuff that isn’t just Trifecta fun soon.  I have (I know it’s hard to believe) ideas; I just have to overcome laziness.  To be fair, though, laziness, when done correctly, is a goal unto itself.  … Continue reading

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Such Purity

Oh, hell it’s fun to do this Trifecta thing, and it’s not like I’ve been “bursting at the seams” with new blogging ideas.  Maybe I should write about my sex life or my dating life.  Here’s the summary of that:  … Continue reading

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Lost

For the Trifextra weekend challenge:  33 word story with “Lost” as the prompt: —————————————– My sister didn’t answer her phone.  Her neighbor: “She’s in the hospital–she’s dying, you know.” “What’s all this?”, she asked as I walked in. The nurses … Continue reading

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Happy Fake Holiday To All

It’s a beautiful Saturday in March in the “Upper Midwest”, with early-June-like weather, and, bein’s my wee lass of a daughter has a bit of a cold and stayed home with her mom and stepdad on this, my Saturday, I have … Continue reading

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Mental Revenge

Took time at lunch to bang this out for some Trifecta fun:  use “trail” (like a trail of smoke would trail, for instance) as a verb.  See them for details.  Friday night was finally here; he drank 4 whiskey drinks … Continue reading

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No Woman is Worth That

So, I was reading a little bit of a biography of Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie, who was quite a lady, apparently.  She was full of life and ambition, yet a realist.  When, in later life, she was being prepped to … Continue reading

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