The Psychic Apparatus
And my personal favorite:
The Psychic Apparatus
No one approved the order. Send missiles and men.
Congress caught sleeping as usual. Iran war began.
Now military deployed for another conflict in the Middle East.
Our leader is nothing but a warmongering beast.
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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Prompt Word!
The writer spent enough time thinking of a particular creature who exists on paper. She had spent hours on visits, interviewing, trying to know and understand the felonious prisoner’s versions of their crimes. She wondered if the rumbles in her head were a walk too far into the dark dirt of the criminal mind. She was a writer, but had to distance herself from the characters she inscribed.
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Wordle 759
stripes of black or white
nature’s mystery challenge
no middling gray
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life described in stripes
animals understand choice
and yet they stick together
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Succumbed into a welcoming sea, saw the mermaid who used her ancient spell.
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Weekend Writing Prompt #461 – Spell
“Respond to this challenge by either using the prompt word dark, or going with the above picture, or by means of the song ‘Evil Ways’, or by going with another song”.
My first thought was a song from the eighties, “White Wedding” sung by Billy Idol. We listened to many Idol songs, mainly because my middle son played guitars and copied Idol’s style. Having three teenagers, I listened to a lot of music!
“The music video, featuring Idol attending a goth wedding, is one of his best-known. The bride is played by Perri Lister, Idol’s real-life girlfriend at the time. She is also one of the three dancers clad in black leather, who slap their buttocks in time with the clap track in the song as they shimmy downwards near the end. “That’s the kind of thing they love in England”, says Idol.”
“In one scene, Idol forces a wedding ring made of barbed wire onto Lister’s finger and cuts her knuckle. Lister insisted that her knuckle actually be cut in order for the scene to appear more realistic.[11] MTV initially removed this scene from the video.” Wikipedia
I’ve never seen the video, but it sounds pretty weird.
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Thursday Inspiration #325 Evil Ways
Joe adjusted headphones watching his wife dance the conga with friends they made on this tour. The bus was not a luxury, but adequate for the price. A shark in the tourism industry was plentiful, but Joe waggled costs down to something affordable. The “soundtrack” playing in his ears was the baseball game he was missing. After four years of sitting in a noisy seat, Joe threw in the towel. The seats were expensive, behind the umpire, but his wife and this tour replaced them.
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Can You Tell A Story In…
innocence in spring
among trees and newborn leaves
a young face appears
forest creatures acceptance
while a new life flourishes
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Open Link Night #404
“Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone…when I came back the entire area was missing…” Stephen Wright
One-Liner Wednesday – Are they?
The Bag Lady 
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