Z is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, YEARNING. Here's to the last day of the challenge. Woohoo!!! *raises coffee cup over aching head*

So today, I'm just going to be my good old (or odd) self:

OMG! It's ovah! My cells are splitting as we speak due to the over-excitement, forming an entirely different person beside me who is plaiting my hair.

Wow. Nice feeling. I haven't had someone play with my hair since I was in primary school. Can you remember, in school, when you'd ask the person sitting behind you on the floor to play with your hair, or 'draw on your back'??? hehe. But then you'd have to switch places and reciprocate, but that was okay too, because you'd write letters on their back and tell them to guess.

I wanna be a kid again. I'd do things a little differently, I think. I wouldn't be so shy and inadvertently snobby. I wouldn't dress like a crazy fruit loop with colours that don't match and draw unwanted attention to myself. I would succumb to my fantasies and punch the little shithead redhead freckled git boy who always teased me. I would SHARE with other kids and try not to be such an outsider.

I was a little shit as a kid. Not as in 'misbehaving,' but I was selfish. I wanted everything to myself. But I still think the other kids were pretty much the same. I will never forget the day that I had a friend come over to my house after school, and when she asked if she could KEEP one of my toys, and I refused, she spent the entire time sitting on the porch step waiting for her mother to come and pick her up. My mother remembers differently. She still insists that I wouldn't let her touch the toy and the girl got pissed off. Gah!

Anyhoo, A-Z is ovah! Like dip di-dip di-dip, Doo-bop a doo-bee doz, Congratulations! Boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy boog-e-dy Shoo-by doo-wop she-bop Chang chang chang-it-ty chang shoo-bop!


So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘Z’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our Z-prompt word. Here’s the link!

YAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Y is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, XENOPHOBIA. Haha. If you don't get the sex change bit of the riddle, it's because usually in Greek, words that end in 'a', are feminine (we're talking grammar here), and words that end in 'o' are masculine. So instead of 'xena', it's 'xeno' :o) hehe. Okay, yeah, I'm losing it ... *dum da dum dum ...

Another riddle:

A noun that sounds like a verb about gaining knowledge with a speach impediment.

PS: Nicole, sorry for abandoning the fiction excerpts!!! :-/ I'll try and do a great piece for tomorrow's sign off! :o)

So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘Y’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our Y-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 

X is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, WANTON. Yes, easy peasy, but did you spell it right??? LOL.
Another riddle for today because I'm lazy and for some reason these are coming to me faster than prose---weird huh?

A feeling of distress over one of Robert Tapert's fictional characters after a sex change.


So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘X’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our X-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 

W is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, VANITY.

Another riddle today:

A licentious Chinese soup.

So, can you guess the noun depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘W’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our W-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 

V is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, UPTIGHTNESS. No one got it! My first victory on a very timely day! :o)

If you are new to this blog please read the note in the header above this post so you know what to do! Thanks!

Got another riddle for you today:

A large vehicle pretending to be an adjective in order to touch a popular suffix.


So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) that begins with the letter ‘V’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our V-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 

U is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by on Saturday! The answer to yesterday's post was, TERROR.

If you are new to this blog please read the note in the header above this post so you know what to do! Thanks!

With a stiff upper lip, Liz snatched the book from my hands.

"You're not going to read today. Today is a holiday," she said and tucked it under her arm.

"But that's what I do on holiday, I read."

"Well, not today. Today is family day."

"But they're not here yet!"

"They will be soon."

"Well, I'll read till they come. Gimme my book back." I held out my hand. Liz shook her head and narrowed her eyes. "Will you just chill out?" I whined. "I promise I will stop reading the instant someone walks in the door."

Liz sighed, looked at the ground, shoved the book into my chest, then flung the teatowel over her shoulder, and stomped back into the kitchen.


So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘U’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our U-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 

T is for ... ??? (and I'm terribly sorry)

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, SELFISHNESS.

I'm so tired ... I'm dying to start writing normal posts again. I've got ideas swishing round in my head and no time to draft them! How about you? Are you feeling the challenge a little like a sore muscle?

Don't get me wrong. This is a wonderful challenge, and Arlee Bird a wonderful bloke. I'm not putting the challenge down at all. I'm putting myself down for feeling overwhelmed and out of control. I'm so close to taking the last week of the challenge off and not completing it. But I will push through. Even if my posts are a little shorter than usual or I copy and past already existing work into here. *wipes brow*

I also want to apologize for not being much of a commenter. This month has been crazy busy for me and I'm putting my spare time into WRITING these things as it is. I hope you understand and don't think I'm being a lazy fart. I also usually reply to comments individually by email, but again I, Just. Can't. So please accept my humble apologies and have a wonderful Easter!!!

If you are new to this blog please read the note in the header above this post so you know what to do! Thanks!

So here's today's entry. PS: this poem is one of the poems in my forthcoming poetry collection TWISTED VELVET CHAINS (this is a Goodreads link, would love if you added it to your TBR list! :o)

Gothic Neanderthal


I listen
Will it ever end?
Her gentle, velvety voice
mimicking childish sobs
amidst animal grunts

Head under pillow
Camping in Africa
on a space ship in Galactica;
an unseen witness to murder
in an abandoned
graffiti-coloured crime district

I cradle my teddy bear,
close to my chest,
covered head to toe
in my feathery nest.

I stroke it
whisper
You’re not alone
I’m here. Shh, don’t cry
Fingers in ears
so hard
it hurts
to avert
my ache—her cries—his
screeching—the insufferable thunderous thump
through thin floor

I climb out of bed,
creep down the hall,
peer through the crack
of the kitchen door.

Grey netting hangs
from naked papery breasts,
dark purple tulle
fastened round her waist
black smudges
smeared ’cross her face.
patterned like lace
wet stringy hair
sticks
to her brow
her neck
wet cotton
sweat
toxic breath
menstruation blood
the onion soup we ate for lunch—
I dry-wretch

It stops—silence
Her arms hover in the air.
Twisted grace, fit for a coffin

Did it die?

No.

Daddy strokes her like the cat
she nods—
whispers and purrs

Behind her come chants
Push, push! Push, push!
It begins again;
She screams—
note shrill against the beat
droning voices of back-up men

Gothic Neanderthal giving birth
Giving life
To song

So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘T’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our T-prompt word. Here’s the link!