Koinonikos

The god of social media was born after Zeus came in a piece of papyrus featuring an undesirable sketch of his face. I could do…

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Prompt #48 — Write like Benjamin King, Again!

In, “Astronauts under the Sea Dance” (view here), King exposes the strangeness of how people mourn or pay homage to others after times of crisis…

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Astronauts under the Sea Dance

The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded in 1986, just 73 seconds after blast off. Christa McAuliffe, the first member of the Teacher in Space Project, and…

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Prompt #47 — Write Like Benjamin King

In, “Astronauts under the Sea Dance” (view here), King exposes the strangeness of how people mourn or pay homage to others after times of crisis…

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Distress

You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,”…

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Prompt #46 — Write Like Kevin Sampsell

In Sampsell’s “Distress” (view here), we are presented with the scenario of a woman asking a man to call her when he finds himself in…

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Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin

Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin Manic D Press Paperback, 93 pages ISBN: 978-1-933149-80-6 I hope I can be forgiven for reading Marina Rubin’s collection of…

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Ex Pat

You’ve pocketed twenty canciones in the San Miguel morning, walking the cobbled streets. Wonder how they did this to the poets; sliced off hands to…

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Prompt #45 — Write like Todd Dillard

Here (view piece), Todd Dillard has created a story that uses the foreign language of a country to illustrate the traveler’s ignorance. We can see…

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Twenty-Eight

We’re in bed again and you’re peeling a kiwi with your fingers. Get a knife, I say. It’s only a suggestion. I’m always telling you…

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