Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Story Prompts & a Reminder

These daily prompts appear on the bootcampkeegandiaries (lik on the right) and only occasionally here



PROMPTS

A blessing be upon your house

TUBE

A nasty break – my son's – and needing pins

HOMESTEAD

a little gas and air, barbiturates, routine

MAJESTY

quietly close your eyes.

HOW NOT TO BELIEV

The trolley trundles; I pretend

JACOB's LADDER

his hand, mine, confederate, serene

THE RED TELEPHONE

they shroud his eye, his light put out

BLACKER

with sticky juices, half a death, he waits

HELEN OF TRING

through flapping doors to mystery

DELUSION

and all around is cancer, hideous disease

MAO'S LITTLE BOOK OF RECIPES

I did not taste what went into my mouth,

MICROSCOPE, GLASS

"What do YOU want, mother?"

THE COMPLETE SHIRT NOVELS OF SIMON BAREBACK

I am my ownworse nightmare, idiot,

TOWER

I saw his face, I loved it, him

A FIVE-WHEELED CYCLE

I was there in linen, lying, saw

MERRY, MARY, MAYBE

the drugs were cutting in, the pain subsiding, a

BLAST

Once on a moonlight road

PLATE

the deer was broken backed, eyes bulged.

THE RED CHICKEN, THE BLACK

under moon, we went three separate ways