Book: Les MisérablesAuthor: Victor HugoGenre: Fiction Prompt from the Hubby “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” One book caused it. It wasn’t the ability to read, which was devastatingly extraordinary, and vital to his existence. In fact, when he was seven, dirty-faced and begging… Continue reading Prompt 15 – Les Misérables by Victor Hugo & February Poetry Circle Info
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Prompt 12 – All The Bright Places & Yin Writing Link
Book: All the Bright PlacesAuthor: Jennifer NivenGenre: YAPage 12, line 12 Prompt book chosen by my daughter, Miller. (For the record, replacing a chalk board is more expensive than you might think.) (But I wasn’t going to tell Bernice that.) (And neither was Viv.) (It had to be our secret.) (You should know that none… Continue reading Prompt 12 – All The Bright Places & Yin Writing Link
Prompt 11 – The Mysterious Benedict Society & The Perilous Journey
Book: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous JourneyAuthor: Trenton Lee Stewart, Illustrations by Diana SudykaPage 11, line 11Genre: Middle-grade “She urged Reynie to stroke the bird’s feathers (Reynie nervously obliged) and then sent her off again.” “See, feathers are fiercely fabulous,” Trinny said as they watched her pet parrot scoot across the resting bar… Continue reading Prompt 11 – The Mysterious Benedict Society & The Perilous Journey
Poem 157 – yesterday’s wrong & Part I of the Bruce Meyer Interview
Yesterday’s wrong the wind left in a hurrygot tangled in a field of sunflowerson the side of an Italian highwayinside a memory flickering in my mind yesterday’s cloak of Wrongis still clamped to my clavicleit’s too hot for this kind of holdingtoday will be the work of letting go if you see a shadow limpingit… Continue reading Poem 157 – yesterday’s wrong & Part I of the Bruce Meyer Interview
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 