Weekly Writing Prompts

This week's Prompt (due 6/30/09)

*Being with the phrase "He was alone in the town..."

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Use some or all of these words in a piece of fiction or poem: poison, doubtful, crimson, tablet, incubate, shear.

Last week's Prompt (due 6/23/09)

*You've arrived at the one place in the world you'd most like to visit, only to find it's not what you expected.

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Use some or all of these words in a piece of fiction or poem: carries, incurious, bending, Soviet, terribly, silent.

Featuerd Response (due 6/23/09)

The Mantra

The light shines through the blindfold,
“I know nothing,”
the mantra in my head.
The pain of battered bone and bruised tissue,
the numbness killing the burn of ropes
against my sweaty flesh.
The information I hold
taken from the silent Soviet,
a fate I now dread;
sensitive material globally pursued.
Bloody weak I cope
and ID the voice met in Bangladesh.
Bending to meet my shoulder-hold
a breath tattling of his dental carries,
“I know nothing,” barely said
as I feel his fists through
my side forcing my slope
into the thresh.
Inaccurately incurious on missions of old
discounting terribly a mole
my ignorance will find me dead.
But the hot issue,
my only hope,
“I know nothing” is all they’ll enmesh.

Lisa Marie Cuff

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