• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  One Year: 5 Minute Freewrite

  In addition to my vehicle registration renewal, this time of year marks a couple of other turning of the cyclical leaves, both in celebration of the most important person in my…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  40% Off: 5 Minute Freewrite

  Forty percent off what? Of what? If you make forty percent of a living wage that's not enough. If forty percent of the people you know succumbed to the plague that's too…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Eyebrow(s): 5 Minute Freewrite

  Trichotillomania. I didn’t have a name for it as a kid, that impulse to yank. And I didn’t know back then that my secret eyelash problem was related to the reason my mom painted…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Homeless: 5 Minute Freewrite

  I tell you what-- I had a hell of a tough time coming up with an idea for a selfie for this topic. Such a tough time that I almost gave up. I didn't want to trivialize a human…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Detective: 5 Minute Freewrite

  It’s very hard to freewrite when your cat is aggressively snuggling you. I am doing this on my phone and one-handed, so if you detect any shortcomings in this entry, blame…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Mice: 5 Minute Freewrite

  If you please A piece of cheese Would surely hit the spot But I can tell The crumb I smell Is part of your grand plot Your clever trap Would surely snap The moment I…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Medium: 5 Minute Freewrite

  As a writer, I have a hard time deciding what medium is my favorite. Clearly performing arts is my favorite, but there are so many of those! And I love all of them. So I end up…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Travel: 5 Minute Freewrite

  One of the things I like most about living in Los Angeles is that the city is so large and culturally diverse that you can take a day-trip in your own town and feel like you've…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Appetite: 5 Minute Freewrite

  How apt that appetite is today's prompt, when today is a day when I'm batch-cooking myself into a frenzy to prevent my appetite from destroying Tokyo. That's right. I just…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Wire: 5 Minute Freewrite

  For reasons I don't wholly understand, I've been leaving my freewrite/selfie contest submissions to the last minute for over a week now. I've been so consistently near-late that…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Monkey's Wedding: 5 Minute Freewrite

  If opposites attract, then it's also true that you're drawn to your roots. Perhaps, to passers-by, the couple seemed like opposites, but she knew that so much of who she was, was…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Home Alone: 5 Minute Freewrite

  For about half of the year, I'm home alone during most of the day. This is good, ostensibly, for the budget. Home alone means Tom is gigging, and Tom gigging means I feel less…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Five: 5-Minute Freewrite

  one two three four five she was practiced in the art of counting to calm herself no need to rail the raging gets you nowhere but disconnected in the end and there are…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  A red scarf: Weekend Freewrite

  He caught it out of the corner of his eye. At first, he wasn't sure what he was seeing-- a burst of scarlet peeking out between a pair of trash bins. When he crossed the street…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Swing: 5 Minute Freewrite

  Judge not my sketching by rushing-to-post standards! Heh. He loved his wife. Truly. Angelia was Martin's match in every way. Almost every way. Can one person truly be another…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Tree: 5 Minute Freewrite

  it's surprising to watch fruit grow on a tree of your own to water and nurture winding branches, crumbling, brown until the subtlest hint of life peeps through fecund…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Milk: 5 Minute Freewrite

  Recipe for one functional @waterworks: 1 cup almond-coconut milk, simmered until warm 2 pumps sugar-free mint syrup 1/2 teaspoon matcha powder 1 scoop collagen peptides…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Paper: 5 Minute Freewrite

  But it wasn't his fault. It wasn't his fault her pigtails were so inviting. Gleaming auburn in the sun that poured in from the classroom window. They were the perfect target.…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Banana: 5 Minute Freewrite

  Banana, before: It is a curious thing, how one can take something that seems nearly useless, and repurpose it so that it has new life. You can't see it so much in the photo…

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• waterworks (39)in #freewrite • 6 years ago

  Important: 5 Minute Freewrite

  Melvin straightened his stamps along the side of the inkpad -- it had two sections, one with a bright indigo and another with a fiery red. The right angles helped him feel more…

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