The FOG Extravaganza Giveawayery Part 2
Since I had so much fun with The FOG Extravaganza Giveawayery last December, I’ve decided to do round two. The concept is fairly simple: Mad Libs,…
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Weekly Writing Challenge: The door to your house/flat/apartment/abode has come unstuck in time. The next time you walk through it, you find yourself in the same…
Read articleA Problem Named Sherman
Weekly Writing Challenge: Write a post written entirely in slang, dialect, or a regional accent. Author’s note: This is Detroit slang, but it’s been over fifteen…
Read articleOn Violence
This week’s Daily Post writing challenge is about violence in film. Specifically, they ask whether I think watching violent movies inspires violence in the real world.…
Read articlePerson, Place Or Thing: The Grille
It’s not the best food in the world. It’s thoroughly edible and not too pricey, but it’s not the type of food you go raving about…
Read articleThe Wedding Party
Well, that was a beautiful ceremony. It ought to be for as much as it cost us. And the reception is lovely, too. I should hope…
Read articleDystopian Utopia
Before, when I thought of dystopian societies, I always imagined an Orwellian scenario where the government controlled everything. 1984 the novel was mostly based on Stalin-era…
Read articleTrees & Water
I miss them. I live in Los Angeles. As much as its residents try to ignore it, Los Angeles is actually part of the desert. This…
Read articleHow To Make A Giraffe 101
This week, The Daily Post wants me to detail a three to five step process, and illustrate each of the steps with something visual. I’m going…
Read articleA Guest Post By My Dog
Weekly Writing Challenge: Tell us about a character in your life. Write a post from their perspective, matching your narrative voice so that it sounds just…
Read articleBooks Books Books
This weeks Mind the Gap challenge is How do you prefer to read, with an eReader like a Kindle or Nook, or with an old school…
Read articleStreet Scene
Daily Post weekly writing challenge: write a post based on this picture: “Jesus, Ed, is this whole city of made of hills? Why the hell did…
Read articleA Woman Walks Into a Restaurant
Daily Post Weekly Challenge. Bensenville is the kind of town you don’t want to be walking alone in late at night, but not for the reasons…
Read articleThe Keys To The City
I was born here: I think that’s where I was born anyway. Actually, I’m not sure if that is the right place since the hospital I…
Read articleTales Of A Teenage Crackhead: Page 3
Daily Post prompt: Write page three of your autobiography. No fair! I’ve already written my autobiography. It goes from birth until about ten years ago when…
Read articleNew Year’s Resolutions
I don’t do resolutions because I am perfect as I am. I kid. I don’t do them because I find that I always fail and then…
Read articleMy Personal Sculptor
Daily Post prompt: Your personal sculptor is carving a person, thing or event from the last year of your life. What’s the statue of and what…
Read articleEasy-Bake Falcon
Daily Post prompt: Was there a special gift or toy you wanted as a child but never received? What was it? This is the kind of…
Read articleChristmas of Suck
I’m really not a big fan of the holidays. I used to be when I was a kid. Christmas Eve was the best night of the…
Read articleHarken O Ye Foggers
This is a public notice for users of Fish Of Gold. Fish of Gold, hereafter referred to as FOG, would like to welcome new members to…
Read articleQu’est-ce Que Art?
This week, we attempt to answer the eternal question: what is art? Also in this edition, the rhetorical query: why do I insist on writing in…
Read article1,000 Words: The Last Picture
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here are exactly one thousand words, not including this introduction, about this picture provided by The Daily Post.…
Read articleThe Case Of The Irrealis Form Of The Copula
“I wish I were able to stop her,” Harbrace muttered. “If I had been there, I would have done something.” “Well, I wish I were a…
Read articleWon’t Somebody Please Think Of The Children!?
This week’s DPchallenge is about children. Specifically, they asked how I feel about children all up in adult-oriented places. I don’t have children. I don’t want children.…
Read articleA Synesthete’s Guide To The Most Beautiful Music In The World
This week, I’ve been feeling very artsy fartsy. It’s all this talk about color and my favorite artists. I blame the Daily Post. I’ve been listening…
Read articleDo You Hear In Color?
This week’s Daily Post Challenge is about color. To paraphrase William Gibson’s Neuromancer: color is “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions.” He was talking about…
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