slapdashmonuments

slapdashmonuments

Joined Ficlatté in September 2014

232 stories, 1 challenge, 1 prompt, 230 comments, and 37 friends

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Inspiration hits with a flash, stories written on the go. A rumble of laughter and the tale is heard only in echoes. The wind blows me in a new direction. Whom shall I visit next?

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Family History Time!

My name is Boopy Daniels. I just wanted to tell you the origin of my name, since lots of people seem…

Published 9 years ago.

3 Word Prompt: evocative, eloquent, and ebullient

Dear!

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You're so eloquent as you improvise in song

A rivulet of notes with the flotsam of your th…

Published 9 years ago.

3 Word Prompt: Lost, absolution, and peace

I am blissful, at peace.

I have worked for so long to achieve this state.

I know I had my personal…

Published 9 years ago.

Emotions and Anaesthetics

Emotions rage & flare inside my mind


I panic, scream, & quiver oftentimes,


But these explosive fee…

Published 9 years ago.

The One Perfect Face (3/3)

It is indeed a special, ineffable moment when a movie director falls hopelessly in love, but when I …

Published 10 years ago.

The One Perfect Face (2/3)

To me, she wasn't just from this place, she was the place. I met her gaze when we stood face to fa…

Published 10 years ago.

The One Perfect Face (1/3)

And then I saw her, the face I'd been hoping to find ever since arriving in the country. I had arriv…

Published 10 years ago.

Student Driver

Sylvester was learning to drive his brand new Model T Ford. His brother in law Harwell was in the pa…

Published 10 years ago.

Needlework

Rebecca, distressed, started ripping up the seams she had just completed, her mouth pursed and disap…

Published 10 years ago.

Wildean Fragment 5

One dazzling evening, Mr. Dover Beach was lunching with me and tossing his curls. One of the curls f…

Published 10 years ago.

Wildean Fragment 4

‘Good-bye, dear Prince!’ he murmured, ‘will you let me kiss your hand? I am going to the House of De…

Published 10 years ago.

Wildean Fragment 3

What Lord Shillingsly didn't realize was the magnitude of the gift he was to give to her in exchange…

Published 10 years ago.

Wildean Fragments 1, 2

"Yes, sir," he said, and closed the door with a slight bang. Odd, thought Howard as he lit a new an…

Published 10 years ago.

Rap Scallion, Verse 2

Well you know I'm the seasoning of our discontent

Y'all're killin our kids and you say it's well mea…

Published 10 years ago.

Rap Scallion, Verse 1

I am the hip-hop green onion,

They call me the Rap Scallion

To quote Damon Runyon,

I look like a …

Published 10 years ago.

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