BASIN-CONVENE-JOURNEY-CREED-BIG SUR-PRIME-WOO-MECHANIC-FLURRY-HOTELOne may smile, smile and be a villain. –William Shakespeare
DEAD AIM-FROG LEGS-BUSTLE-METH LAB-PHARMACOLOGY-HOE-AROSE-LAST RESORT-FIRE-GRINDThe hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. –Confucius
IRONWORK-IMMEDIATE-FOXGLOVE-DOUGH-VALUEPAK-ABUSE-SILKY-WIRED-LILAC-CORRUGATEDYou don`t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. –Margaret Thatcher
HAM FISTED-ROOTED-DIAMONDS-CORDED-OSHKOSH-PEACE OF MIND-CULTURAL-SPY-BASIN-MARQUETRYThe first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. –Sigmund Freud
STRING OF PEARLS-HAUNT-RITUAL-FAILED-SUSPECT-WONDERLAND-SMOOTHIE-RISKY-SISTER-FREEWAYThe man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. –George Bernard Shaw
JURY DUTY-GREEN MAN-WISCONSIN-REPLY-CHOCOLATE BARS-GOAT-DRIVETHRU-TART-STRENGTH-WILLFULWhen our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. –Francois de La Rochefoucauld
KITE SURFER-MOTHER EARTH-PEEL-MARSHAL-IMPOUND-HADES-MERLOT-CONSECRATE-HAIRPIN-SMIDGENA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. –Novalis
ZOMBIE-SHOOTOUT-CROP-FRATHOUSE-MISSION-AGNES-FORESHADOW-CROWN VETCH-TAXI-BURSTEverything you can imagine is real. –Pablo Picasso
PARADE-ACCUSE-JUMPER-THREADCOUNT-GAP-SCREED-MAN HANDS-PINCH-MARKETPLACE-GOATWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. –Honore de Balzac
BUFFOON-BANK-SEARCH-ZANY-INMATE-PREFAB-ITCH-SUICIDAL-WANDERLUST-WISEWhen a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. –Anton Chekhov
HOSPITABLE-BYZANTINE-HILL FORT-DWELLER-HORSEPLAY-WILLOW-FESTIVAL-ILLUSTRIOUS-BADGER-FLEWOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. –Bertrand Russell
RIVER STYX-MEMOIR-DISTRICT-COCKTAIL-INNOCENCE-SNAILS-INKY-DOGGED-DIPTYCH-GOLDFISHJust because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. –Irene Peter
CLOROX-MEDIATE-SLIGHT-RORSCHACH-BARK-SIDLE-CABIN-FISHTAIL-LURCH-DAYDREAMA man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. –Henry Louis Mencken
PRIMROSE-CONNECTION-SPECIAL NEEDS-RETURN-UNIVERSITY-LOON-SMILES-DRUG-MISSED-HOURIt is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. –Marcus Tullius Cicero
POSSESSION-RESCUE-GOLDEN-LOON-MONOCLE-GENESIS-BACK SEAT-IRISH-WARRIORS-COMPANYA work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added and nothing taken away. –
Joseph Joubert
CLIPPED-HUSTLING-RAGTAG-ENGRAVER-EBB TIDE-BITTER-LEAVING-REED-CRY BABY-BELLIESNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. –Heraclitus
PNEUMONIA-CAMELLIAS-RAUCOUS-EASTSIDE-PANEL-CURTAIL-LOWDOWN-VIOLIN-RESTITUTON-PERMIT HOLDERAmbition is not a vice of little people. –Michel de Montaigne
TAHITI-POWER FAILURE-ETHICS-SNOOZE-SUICIDE-GOLDEN-LAGER-PROFLIGATE-WAR ZONE-REEFERLove has reasons which reason cannot understand. –Blaise Pascal
DAMAGE-SKATE-FURIOUS-GRAPE-CUL DE SAC-SCRUTINIZE-PLANT EATER-GUMSHOE-SPOOF-MUDFLOWI never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. –Zsa Zsa Gabor
LILLIPUTIAN-SEMINARY-BARREL-STADIUM-BIRTHRITE-MINSTREL-PARANOIA-DISINTEGRATE-LIGURIAN SEA-REVELThe sole cause of man`s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. –Blaise Pascal
TIN ROOF-AVON LADY-REFINEMENT-MOP CLOSET-LEAK-AFFECTED-PULCHRITUDE-MACARONI-LAME BRAINED-CURVYImmorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. –Henry Louis Mencken
REFUSE-PARAMOUR-OVERBEARING-DECIDE-SHADOW-FIREHOUSE-MAN TO MAN-PUCK-SVELTE-VAPORIZEPassionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. –Eric Hoffer
ENTRANCE-IGLOO-PERPLEX-INCONTINENT-SAUCEBOX-ATTACK-LEGALESE-POSTMODERNISM-CLEMENT-PETTY OFFICERHe who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. —Immanuel Kant
CHOMP-ISHTAR-RUFFIAN-INTIMACY-PUDDLE-NOSE DIVE-STUCK UP-STRAY-USED CAR DEALER-LATHERPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. –Thomas Carlyle
BLESSING-METHODICAL-QUAKING-POSTHUMOUS-SHUTTER-LICHEN-DEVOTED-WANAMAKER’S-BAMBOO-RETRIEVEDA scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
– Max Planck
OLD FASHIONED-BOULEVARD-CITIZEN-METHODICAL-OLIVE TREE-RETREAT-FRIDAY NIGHT-RAINY-PROWLER-RETURNINGIf I don’t think about it, it won’t drive me crazy. –Aaliyah
REFRIGERATOR MAGNET-GROOM-ANGINA-POUT-ROADHOUSE-KNOCKOUT-ATRIUM-COCOON-DODGE-PAROCHIALThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don`t do anything about it. –Albert Einstein
COMMON LAW-ENTRAPMENT-OFFSPRING-VILLAGE-CLOG-MANNA-SQUAWK-DESPICABLE-WAR MOVIE-BEFALLAll paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. –Aristotle
BLOOD LUST-NOTARY PUBLIC-TRAVESTY-CABINET-GIZZARD-LOOM-INITIAL-LOCAL-EMBODY-VICIOUSTo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. –Oscar Wilde
DECIDED-OAF-DANCE FLOOR-HERD-CONSERVE-SUBTLE-HASTEN-SURVEILLANCE-REBELLION-POPSICLEWe all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. –Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. –Winston Churchill
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A person usually has two reasns for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. –Thomas Carlyle.
SQUEEZE-DUSK-SENTENCE-PROTOCOL-CONJURE-APPENDAGE-BERG-MUGGER-REGAL-PUCKERFrom a drop of water a logician could predict an Atlantic or a Niagara. –Arthur Conan Doyle
ROLL OF COINS-PORTENT-ATLAS-CORRIDOR-SPAGHETTI-NUMB-LOOMED-RITZY-CANARY-JUNIPEROpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. –Joseph Campbell
BEGINNER-POPINJAY-LIGHTHOUSE-CRANKCASE-REFLECT-LOPSIDED-ONSET-HOARFROST-SAG-DISTINCTLove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
WARM BLOODED-X SHAPED-YARDSTICK-ZEST-ANTISEPTIC-BOVINE BUNCH-CHEER-DRAMA-EXTOL-FLIPRomance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us. –Roger Ebert
MUSCLES-NAMELESS-OPENWORK-PALAVER-QUAGMIRE-RANDOM-SHREWD-TAB-UNGRATEFUL-VACANTThe voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. –Germaine de Stael
CHARITABLE-DIRNDL-EARWAX-FLOODED-GRUB-HAMMER-IRIDESCENT-JAMAICA-KNOW HOW-LACERATEMorality is the herd instinct in the individual. –Friedrich Nietzsche
SCHISM-TERMAGANT-URGENT-VAPOR-WAITER AT A DRIVE IN-X RATED-YOKE-ZEPHYR-AMUSEMENT-BADGERAnything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough. –Gustave Flaubert
INKY-JUDGED-KERNEL-LINE OF CLIFFS-MODUS OPERANDI-NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK-OYSTER-PING-QUIBBLE-REPENTThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. –Eric Hoffer
YIELDING-ZIG ZAG-AFFAIR OF HONOR-BALEFUL-CANCER-DRONED-EXILE-FIDGETY-GHANA-HARRYIt is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
–Winston Churchill
OUT EAST-PASSPORT-QUANTUM-RUDIMENTARY-SMASH-THEATER-UNDERSIDE-VIRULENT-WASTED-XRAYIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. –Mark Twain
ESTATE-FISHY-GRAPHITE-HENCHMEN-INCONGRUITY-JUSTIFIED-KINDNESS-LOP-MANTILLA-NORTHThere are times and countries when the only place for an honest man is in jail. –Thomas Mann
UNKEMPT-VASELINE-WASTREL-X TASY-YEARNING-ZERO-AUDITORIUM-BALM-CADET-DISPASSIONATEWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. –Timothy Leary
KETCHUP-LACRIMONIOUS-MUSSELS-NIGHTMARE-OPTING OUT-PRESS-QUIZZICAL-RESTLESS-SEARING-TROGLODYTE
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. –Thomas Babington
ATRIUM-BROACH-CHEVRON-DAINTY-EDEN-FEATHER-GROVEL-HIJACKER-IDOLIZE-JAM
The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. –Charles-Josef de Ligne
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. –Albert Einstein
PASSAGEWAY-CHEW-OBELISK-PARODY-CHEERY-IMMUNE-REFUGEE-HERESY-PLY-CIRCUMSTANCESA business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. –Henry Ford
EMBRACE-CRANNY-RIGAMAROLE-CHAMBERMAID-RUNNER-CORNFIELD-FLINTY-DECAY-PICK ME UP-THUNDERSome virtues are seen only in affliction and others only in prosperity. –Joseph Addison
ENVY-ARROGANT-GALLERY-ABBERATION-CROP-SALESMAN-HALLMARK-CATARACT-DIVAN-AUCTIONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. –Joseph Addison
UNDERGRAD-DECEITFUL-BATTER-ONION-ROADWAY-GRAVE-SAVOR-FEEBLE-LAVA-WAL-MARTThe smaller the heart, the bigger the hate it shelters. –Victor Hugo
RUNAWAY-LOCUST-SHACKLE-TAMP-BUCOLIC-URGE-CAVERN-CHEDDAR-BLAME-SNOTTYSometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. –Albert Einstein
MANSERVANT-HOOVERVILLE-FAKE-FOYER-ACETATE-SLUMPED-AGNOSTIC-ONUS-SIFTED-PITEOUSSuccess has always been a great liar. –Friedrich Nietzsche
GYPSY-COVER UP-ANGEL FACTORY-JUNK-GATHERS-GLOSSY-PIERCES-BLACK PEARL-BODIES-BROOCHTo love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. –Oscar Wilde
CHERISHED-STAND UP-SALOON-OSTRICH-CULTURED-APPETIZER-FALLEN ANGEL-MASKED-BABY BOOM-WEANEDThe sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. –Blaise Pascal
EVERLASTING NO-REWARD-VENTURED-CAPTAIN-BACON-GOTHIC-SWEETNESS-HOSTILE-REJECTED-SUBJECTIONHe who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. –John Stuart Mill
FLESH PEDDLER-MEDIOCRE-LAWLESSNESS-RECANT-DIXIE-SLICED-DRIVE BY-LEGENDS-BALLOON-FRENCH POODLEI love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. –Coco Chanel
OLD FAITHFUL-PRISM-APOLOGIZED-GERM-CHARTER-DEFIANT-TUNNELED-CLAN-LAST CALL-BRINKYou don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. –Margaret Thatcher
CEMENT-SIDLE-SHOULDERED-GRIT-SLUSH-HORSERADISH-THROB-DAIRY QUEEN-DE LA PLAYA-190THI tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it. –Trick Daddy
NEWSMAN-SETBACK-BUSHLEAGUE-BUCKED-BURROWED-WETLANDS-JAR-SHELLAC-TURNCOAT-TIARAAn honest man is always a child. –Socrates
ORGASM-VARIETY STORE-DAYDREAMING-JUNIOR-VACUUMED-DIGIT-HARANGUE-DOILY-NAVIGATES-POKEWEEDBe wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. –Philip Chesterfield
PARALEGAL-GOLD LINE-CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM-WORN OUT-TRICKSTER-GREEN MAN-BEDEVILED-HESITATED-INNER STRENGTH-BUSHEDThere are very few honest friends – the demand is not particularly great. –Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
TRYST-HALF ASSED-PLASTER-SODA FOUNTAIN-TROUBLE-SNIPER-ROXANNE-MILDEW-BAGUETTE-LURKEDA mother who is really a mother is never free. –Honore de Balzac
CHEATER-FORGOT-COLD SHOULDER-FARM-MANDRAKE-RAUNCHY-RETIRED-IN TANDEM-BANKED-TABLEAUI love my country too much to be a nationalist. –Albert Camus
OUTWIT-NURSED-HAIR STYLE-IGNORANCE-SUBMARINE-PARAPHERNALIA-GYPSY-FRESHET-BIGGIE SMALLS-SNIPED
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don`t do anything about it. –Albert Einstein
AWESOME-BONNET-INTERIOR-GHASTLY-DUEL-TURRET-TWIG-BALLERINA-MEAGER-MAULEDBachelors have consciences, married men have wives. –Henry Louis Mencken
SELF STARTER-SHAPE-BEAT DOWN-ACCORD-POMADE-JEER-SHIRTWAIST-ABACK-MOLLUSK-FORSAKEThe first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. –Sigmund Freud
ORIGINAL-LAME-CAPITOL-BALMY-TREACLE-CHERISH-KEY GRIP-STARVATION-WORKMANLIKE-ELBOWSIf he’d just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I’d have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. –Cale Yarborough
ANGLO-HONORS-PSYCHO WARD-FAIR SHAKE-JOSH-BALD-ARABESQUE-FIDELITY-LOTUS-LINKEDYou have to decide even to hesitate. –Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
SHORE-SELF RELIANCE-CONCORD-AMBUSH-CHIHUAHUA-AVENGED-CONDUCTED-TOMBSTONE-SLID-MOLDERINGA man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. –Dorothy Gilman
PORN-FLOODED-DEFENSELESS-BETTIE PAGE-RECONNOITER-JOYOUS-EXIT-LESSON-SHOOT OUT-NUNNext to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. –William Makepeace Thackeray
FALL BACK-RIDICULOUS-ADOLESCENCE-REINED-HEATHER-SCAFFOLD-SEED PODS-FOYER-ADAGE-EGREGIOUSA noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. –Jean Racine
BATTLE-CONTRIBUTES-VENGEANCE-PERSUADE-HINTED-DOOZY-ASPHALT-HERA-METHOD-RED MANYou can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? –Bryan Ferry
SNUGGLING-PEP TALK-WEIRDO-DOGWOOD-CAPACITY-AWES-DAMAGE-EMPTINESS-ELF-SHARPENSThe idea is to die young as late as possible. –Ashley Montagu
WINTHROP-CHOCOHOLIC-GIG-INDIA-HITCH-POOL-EXPERT-DRIBBLE-FLAG-TRUCK STOPWe are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things. –Epictetus
TANK-LEAN-BURLY-CARD GAME-JINGLE-BLACK BAG JOB-MIDDLE DISTANCE-GO BETWEEN-TIBET-DRUBJust because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn`t mean he knows what it is. –Bertrand Russell
MARALINE-EASY-TUG BOAT-SPOOK-CHI TOWN-JEANS-WORM-TACKLE-DIPPY-MAD MONEYTo be feared is much safer than to be loved. –Machiavelli Niccolo
PITCHFORK-STORYBOARD-ATTEMPT-GOLDEN-CLOWN-OBSESS-CHOKES-ESCAPE-BORED-BLUEBOTTLESThroughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
–Donald Kagan
BELLS-BUMBLER-TURF WAR-EARN-THIRTEEN-SQUAT PAD-BLACKTOP-PAPER CLIPS-REVEL-POKEYThe fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. –Heinrich Heine
REINDEER-DEAL WITH-TOUTED-SLAM-GLOOMY GUS-SILENCE-HIGH SCHOOL-GEODE-SQUIRT-SHOTGUNIf you stare at the back door, sometimes your dinner comes out early. But if you stare too hard, you get backdoor eyes. –Snoopy
SPRINGS-NAVE-WINSTON-GREENMAN-M.I.T.-MONOCLE-BEERATHON-REGISTER-MUSTARD-WILTPassion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
POTENT-GAZE-SNAPSHOT-OAK-GRANNY DRESS-ARCHED-BULLETPROOF-BALLOON-CONGRATULATE-RHYMEI regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame. –Plautus
RECRUIT-SHABBY-BELLY-PREFAB-TWELVE-RECTIFY-OLD HAT-PRAY-TUG BOAT-WATER FOUNTAINNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. –Anatole France
WREN-ACCOUNTANT-STAKE-ATL-EAT-CAUGHT-EARTHY-DOWNSIZE-NUB-BOOKSTORE
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
HEAVEN-SPELLED-LOBO-HIGH-SEQUOIA-TWEEZER-MARKETED-REEFER-NOSE HAIR-TRUSSThe fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own. –Michael Korda
BRUTAL-LILY OF THE VALLEY-GRANITE-CHEEKY-DWARF-LUMBER-LABYRINTH-DUSTED-ALLERGIC-SMELLEDYou know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen enough movies – all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. –Steve Martin
ALTAR-TITAN-REFLECTION-LAMENT-GASSED-DESCENDING-THE FIRES-NUDITY-NEXUS-GROANEDI prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. –Frederick Douglass
THREAT-FIRED-AVERTS-GRAVY TRAIN-FADING-BAGGAGE-PROBED-CAPTURE-GOLD TOOTH-PERSIANIf there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. –Friedrich Nietzsche
BUBBLING-IRRIGATION-DRUGSTORE-CORVETTE-SKULL-CHAINS-SAND DUNE-TARGET PRACTICE-TRANSCEND-POND SCUMWe waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. –Tom Robbins
FAT FARM-DRUTHERS-BEGRUDGE-STERN-GO GETTER-DRY RUN-SWEETEN-SMARTS-SWAG-CAHOOTSImmorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. –Henry Louis Mencken
HARDNOSED-YAWP-SALMON-RECTORY-RUNDOWN-DEVIANT-GRANDSTAND-IGNORE-ENTRAILS-RHYTHMMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. –Francis Bacon
RUT CITY-BECKON-MARIONETTE-THIN WALLED-IRIDESCENT-CRYPTIC-CRACKLE-DARLING-HINDU-WARRENWisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. –Confucius
FEEL GOOD-HOCKEY PLAYER-REFUSED-MELTDOWN-BOWLING ALLEY-JUDGMENT-HOLLER-MINI-THRASH-LOCKETWhat often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is our having more than one. –Francois de La Rochefoucauld
STRINGER-SAUSAGE-CANAL-DIRTY LAUNDRY-DICKER-HYPER-COTTAGE-ENVIOUS-PAGER-MANACLEThere is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. –Ogden Nash
OUTLANDER-STEAK-PETROL-CARP-PETRIFIED-ACCUSE-SPIEL-BIBLE BELT-TRACT-FISHYOne may smile, smile and be a villain. –William Shakespeare
COBRA-DEXTEROUS-BIRTHSTONE-DANCED-CATTERY-FLEECE-HOUNDSTOOTH-MUSHROOM-TROJAN-STUMBLEBorn again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. –Dennis Miller
VENAL-CHIDE-RUNDOWN-BUMMER-HOG COUNTRY-SOB STORY-AMIGO-VESTIBULE-HASSLE-ORNATEMake no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood. –Niccolo Machiavelli
SPARE CHANGE-GOURMET-TOMB-MALL-EXCEL-NYLONS-BUNGLE-FREAKY-OUTSIDER-SORROWCharm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. –Albert Camus
EUNUCH-SPLAT-ATTACK-BREATHLESS-BEDEVIL-GOBS-CONVICTION-SOURPUSS-HOARD-CUFFLINKMen have more problems than women. In the first place, they have to put up with women. –Francoise Sagan
REPUGNANT-DELAY-VOW-GOOF OFF-BREAKUP-DRYWALL-COMPLAIN-HEIR-FETTER-DREAMIt is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. –Jerome K. Jerome
RAVEN-RAPID-BLISSFUL-CROWN-RAMBUNCTIOUS-ALIENS-GAMUT-CLIMAX-FERN-MOTORBOATSometimes even to live is an act of courage. –Lucius Annaeus Seneca
ADVERSARY-PREVENT-SUBWAY-ENCHANTING-TOY DUCK-YEARN-CAPER-BLINDSIDE-MAYHEM-INVADEA person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. –Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
BURN VICTIM-HUB-INSPECT-TUG OF WAR-PRIEST-ELFIN-GESTURE-DOOM-OUTRAGE-SLASHThe hidden harmony is better than the obvious. –Pablo Picasso
CHOO CHOO-MIRROR-JESTER-SURVIVAL-DIVULGED-CEREAL-VIGIL-RISKED-PARANORMAL-SPLAYEDIf you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. –John Galsworthy
PORTEND-BURNER-BLOGGING-UNLUCKY-SUSHI-COMPLIMENT-WILTED-M&MS-INVEIGLE-CRASHAll our evil comes from our inability to be alone. –Jean de La Bruyere
SWINDLE-DEFACE-NEW BLOOD-TRAINED-RED TAPE-PANIC-RIVAL-PALACE-FINGERNAIL-FELLAn honest man is always a child. –Socrates
LANDMARK-BALLISTIC-BRUSSEL SPROUTS-PROFESSOR-SKEPTICAL-ENSLAVE-BLASTS-TAG-BITTER-GRIFTERThere is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
–Euripides
LEARNING CURVE-GANG-BROKEN-ALGAE-CHELSEA-FORGOTTEN-LIPS-AUCTION-TRIGGER-BLIGHTMen are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. –Napoleon
DOLL HOUSE-ANGST-RAID-CLAY-HOARY-ROILED-ZOMBIE-SCORPIO-STRAP-BAKEPower without abuse loses its charm. –Paul Valery
FURLOUGH-SKILLS-EMBRACE-SOLITUDE-OUTSIDERS-BUMP IN THE ROAD-SQUEEZE-SLANG-CRIME-FAITHHatred is a settled anger. –Marcus Tullius Cicero
TORTURED LOGIC-TEMPORARILY-ECLIPSE-ROOSTER-LOW-EMBRACE-STAPLER-DECLINE-SHAME-SMOLDERThe surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. –
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
FRAUD-SURF-FLIERS-GOLD-MALIBU-LEAPT-NANO-SHIFTY-GOING GETS TOUGH-PROPELWe are taught to clothe our minds, as we do our bodies, after the fashion in vogue; and it is accounted fantastical or something worse, not to do so. –John Locke
GRANDSON-GARDEN-CUMULOUS CLOUDS-WRAITHE-CURL-CONTAINMENT-UMBRELLA-SERIOUS-RECOGNIZE-SPLINTERPeople change and forget to tell each other. –Lillian Hellman
PIT BULL-GLITCH-SWINE FLU-ACHE-RADIATION-FUZZY-CURBED-SURROGATES-KNITTING-STRICTMisery is almost always the result of thinking. –Joseph Joubert
ENORMITY-RUN-POSSIBLE-LONG SUFFERING-AIRY-HILLOCK-PURSUE-ASSIZE-BARLEY-PATHS OF GLORYYou can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it. –Art Buchwald
CLUCK CLUCK-RECOVERY-JOINT-KAYAK-AMBITIOUS-LEAN TO-WLLSPRING-WARRANT-GARAGE-ERASEDSometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. –Lily Tomlin
MALICE-DRONE-GRUMBLING-CONCOURSE-PLASTIC-VACUUM-OBLIVIOUS-ABSCESS-CHAPLAIN-STRAITIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. –Dorothy Parker
ADDERALL-PARAKEET-THUMBPRINT-ORCHARD-RETIRE-LOUNGES-PRECIOUS-DIES-SUMP-BITWe’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. –Carl Sagan
TAME-PIONEER-BUBBLE-SHARK BIT-SMUGGLER-EMBATTLED-POND-GIGGLES-BRACE-SPECULATEUntil you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. –M. Scott Peck
REKINDLE-SKEPTICAL-PIXIE-MAKE MY DAY-ROGUE-RAGE-UNGRATEFUL-TRANSFORM-HARDBALL-SLUMPWar is the unfolding of miscalculations. –Barbara Tuchman
TERRITORY-DELVE-STRANGE-MIRACLES-DIARY-FRISSON-KILLER-CHASM-PLUMMY-BASEMENTPatience is the companion of wisdom. –Saint Augustine
SMALL FIELD-NEW LIGHT-REALITY-NOSTALGIA-DRONE-DISPATCHER-STENCH-GRIEF-EQUITY-RINGSAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. –Toni Morrison
ST. ELMO’S FIRE-CROSS-RAVISHED-GROTTO-MARTYR-RACKED-STAKE-DRAGONS-RIDDLED WITH ARROWS-CUPCAKESThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. –Voltaire
GHOULIE-MISTY SWAMP-SLIDING DOORS-WRETCHED-VASCULAR-DAN AKROYD-SCREECH-SPLINTERED-DECAPITATE-LYCANTHROPEFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. –Edvard Munch
DISEASE-HUNGRY-TOILET PAPER-TWILIGHT-ZEALOUS-DELIVERS-SPOT ON-POSITIVE-TWISTED-BREATHEThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. –Eugene McCarthy
OLD CITY-OBELISK-HOT DOGS-KALASHNIKOVS-CRUISER-FENCE-FISHERMAN-LARKSPUR-ORANGE-LAUNCHIt is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas. –Daisaku Ikeda
REVOKE-CRAZY-HOMEWORK-CONCERN-PIT-ORDER-GENERALITIES-FAMILIAR-SUMMON-ALCHEMYLet’s have some new clichés. –Samuel Goldwyn
ERRATIC BEHAVIOR-SIZZLING-GHOUL-CONTINENTAL-BUMPY RIDE-DRUNK MODEL-SCARFACE-ENCHILADA-PACMAN-SHUTTLEThe cynics are right nine times out of ten. –Henry Louis Mencken
MIMIC-SANDPAPER-DIALOGUE-RIVETED-PINTO BEANS-UNNAMED-FLUFFY-SNEAKERS-FOUND-COASTWhen the solution is simple, God is answering. –Albert Einstein
KAFKA-VAGABOND-NAPKIN-FERNS-POUTS-CONSTRUCT-FLASHING-PEACOCK FEATHERED-COLLIDED-PRECIPICEIf a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. –Anatole France
FURNACE-MIRTH-FLAUNT-HAMPER-STRIP MALLS-BRIDE-SPERM SAMPLE-BACON CLUB-COLLAPSED-PIZZA CRUSTLove has reasons which reason cannot understand. –Blaise Pascal
SMIRK-PANTHER-STENCH-ALPHA-TIGHTENING-SKELETON-BABY SOCKS-MENTOR-WEARIED-BAROQUEFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. –Immanuel Kant
MARBLE-SHOTGUN-GROCERY CLERK-INCINERATE-GREEN BEANS-BEANIE BABIES-BONE CRUSHER-NAUGHTY-CONSECRATION-BOXESTo the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
BEAUTY SHOP-SPECTATOR SPORT-DISOWNED-BELLY-FRAIL-SPOONFUL-WALLPAPER-AMIABLE-CONGESTION-OBOEThe cruelest lies are often told in silence. –Robert Louis Stevenson
ADROIT-CAPE FEAR-POISED-HANGING-GENTILE-SUBTERRANEAN-RUNNING-RED CANDLE-OUTCAST-HEARTLANDIf moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime. –Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
UNDERTOW-SYMMETRY-PURSUIT-LONGITUDINALLY SPEAKING-ECHO-SIN-MONKEYS-WORRIES-SCENE-YELLOWSeveral excuses are always less convincing than one. –Aldous Huxley
BOOT POLISH-SPONTANEOUS-TATTOOED BROW-PASTOR-SUFFER-SESAME SEEDS-FLESH-ROBOT-RELEASE-POKEThe path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. –Napoleon Hill
RED SNOW-SORE THROAT-EVOLUTION-GUEST-WRAITHE-DYNAMO-CPA-SUNDOWN-SYMBOL-WIMPYDeath is not the worst that can happen to men. –Plato
OUTING-BLUES-WILDERNESS-WALKER-JAW-ROOSTER-GRILLED CHEESE-MADRAS SHIRT-SNICKERED-SOFT HAILWhen you gotta good friend, have her stay right by your side. –Robert Johnson
NECK BRACE-JONATHON-GARDEN-DROP EARRINGS-HOARSE-BRASS BED-FLEUR DE LIS-DENIM-ICED TEA-SYRUPThere are very few honest friends – the demand is not particularly great. –Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
HANGOVER-SPRING-CURRENCY-LEVELED-CART AND DONKEY-MISTRESS-SHOESHINE-BLUE DEVIL-RAPT-PHILADELPHIAHatred is a settled anger. –Marcus Tullius Cicero
BLUE JELLYFISH-FURIOUS-SUBLIME-MUD ROOM-SWEEP-DROP DEAD DRUNK-PULSATE-CASK-DUDE-GEODESHatred is active and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
JINGLE-DRIVING KARMA-BON TON-BASEBALL BEER ON STEROIDS-BRICK MILL-JERICHO-ROLLIN’ MAN-HELLHOUND-PHONOGRAPH-EXPECTMen in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes; but few have the gift of penetration. –Niccolo Machiavelli
CHILL-EASTERN FOG-SULFURIC-BUOYANT-SHERIFF-TWIDDLE-CADENCE-VIOLET-ALABASTER-ATOMSPerfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery
CELERY-MICROSCOPE-APPEASE-RACKET-PURL-CANDLELABRUM-OZARK PLATEAU-RIVULET-CHAMP-BLOODLETTINGWar is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. –Thomas Mann
WAYFARER-BLACKBERRY-CLOVEN FOOTED-FERTILITY-STARRY HILL-MONK-CHURCH TOWER-FOREWARNINGS-CONCRETE-GUESTROOMYou`ll live. Only the best get killed. –Charles de Gaulle
RAPTURE-STORK-PEANUTS-BLUEGRASS-POOCH-EGGS AND HAM-EXPONENTIAL-HIGH TIDE-FOCUS-CARICATUREThere is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. –Ogden Nash
GALLERY-DEGREE-BROTHERS-BEAR’S TOOTH-IMAGINE-GNATS-STARLIT-DENSE-SCAVENGER-ANTISEPTICNo one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. –Decimus Junius Juvenal
SCULPTOR-CUL DE SAC-SEABED-ATLAS-CRUST-ONSLAUGHT-MUDDLED-UNNAMED-SCREECH-ROWBOATWe spend our time envying people whom we wouldn’t wish to be. –Jean Rostand
TINY WIRE COAT HANGERS-STOPGAP-IMPAIR-LUTE-CONSPIRE-JEWEL BOX-SIMONY-THIRSTY-DYED-BLUEFISHEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. –Confucius
STUDIO-MAVERICK-SECRET-DEER SEASON-12 GAUGE-TENSION-PANCAKES-NECESSARY-HYDRANGEA-MEDITATIONEvery man`s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. –Samuel Butler
SPECTACLES-ASSETS-COFFEE BEANS-PELICAN-LUST-ENFANT TERRIBLE-BIG GUT-CHARLOTTE-BRICK WALL-RECESSED LIGHTINGFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. –
Immanuel Kant
MAJESTIC-VISIONARY-BANKRUPT-PANDORA-DISGRACE-POPCORN-SNOW WHITE-BRIDGE-TACOS-RAMBUNCTIOUSA government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. –
Barry Goldwater
AUSTRALIAN PALM-WHIP-SCOUNDRELS-RTE 10-PATHETIC-GYMNASIUM-DEATH KNELL-BULLET-MAGIC-SOCK PUPPETA child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. –Groucho Marx
CAMARO-RED ROCK-ARROYO-MOUNTAIN-FARMLAND-SCAMP-POWERFUL-TERROR-MISSILES-SKILLSA man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
HUG ME-STRAPPED-INDEX-FRAUD-RANDY-KEY-FLASH FORWARD-TESLA-SALESCLERK-UNCIVIL WARA soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. –Alexander Chase
CLEANSING-SINK HOLE-EL PASO-DAMP-CLOUDY-HOPEFUL-BOOK-SHAKE AND BAKE-STRAPPED-SHIMMYA man of courage is also full of faith. –Marcus Tullius Cicero
STRANGE-ETHER-ACCOLADES-RAINWATER-ATONAL-GEYSER-SORRY-WOLF-SURRENDER-SHRILLA man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. –Mark Twain
GOODNESS-PLUOT-WILLOW TREE-MURKY-ENVELOPE-RESEMBLANCE-FRAGMENT-CRIME SCENE-CANINE-BORDERNature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. –Anatole France
GOLDEN-KILLING-SNOW FLAKE-JILLION-FOREBEARS-LOQUAT-BELIEVE-UNRAVEL-POTENT-FIZZThe more I know men, the more I love my dog. –Unknown
WHIPPERSNAPPER-CLOVERLEAF-BOUNCED-DRILL-COLLAGE-DANDELION-GEEK-SUSHI-TRUTH-RIB CAGEHappiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. –Doug Horton
ROAD TRIP-HEALING-ONTARIO-OOPS-PINTO-DETOUR-GREAT GRANDFATHER-HAIL MARY-FEATURED-FISH TOWNMoney may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. –Henrik Ibsen
GHOSTLY-DOCTORS-ASPEN-SWEET N LOW-JUKE JOINT-FRIGHTENED-NAILGUN-RAPIDS-SKATER-SWINGShe had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. –W. Somerset Maugham
SPEARMINT-GENTLEMEN-COLLEGE-SHIFTY-NATIONAL GUARD-FLIPSIDE-POTENT-REPOSE-LOONEY TUNES-DRY RUNMan will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. –Winston Churchill
PAPER CUP-PILLOW-EVOLUTION-ICELAND-BUFFALO BILL-CLEAVE-COLONY-WINDOW-ESCALATOR-MARKET SQUAREA home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. –Henry Louis Mencken
DISHWATER BLONDE-RELATIVE-AIR FORCE BLUE-ORCHID-BAD NEWS-WOMEN WITH MUSTACHES-DATA-SPOKANE-BIFOCALS-JACKBOOTSA diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch. –Hermione Gingold
PALM TREE-OIL-PISTOL-HIGHWAY-MEASURE UP-GATES-ENERGY DRINK-DOING DISHES-OH CANADA-POLITEAll men are created equal, It is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. –David Allan Coe
WOVEN-SEPIA-AWAKEN-OUTLAW-SURREAL-OKIE-AAA-DRY CLEANING-FLEECE JACKET-RIVERAn educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. –Russell Baker
FLOOD-ARMY-HAMPER-ELEVATORS-BONES-VITAL-MEDICATED-PARTNER-SHADY-SHARP FACEDA man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. –John Barrymore
GOOD FEELING-HARNESS-GRAIN OF SALT-LULL-SYMPTOM-SLEUTH-PROVOKE-OPEN SPACE-PLUS-MILKYA man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. –Martin Luther King, Jr.
DETAILS-DEEPLY-SOLO MISSION-BOREDOM-ANTICS-VOLUNTEER-MENTOR-VISTA-AVOCADO-PREENThink? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. –Jean Rostand
LABOR-DESERT HIGHWAY-WINDMILL-ROTTEN-TAXI-21-WATERMELON-ALLEY-GRAVLAX-DISTRICTThe work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. –Thomas Carlyle
BELL PEPPER-BRAIN IN GEAR-SIP-HELP ME-LARRY-HUMONGOUS-EARLY BIRD-BORDERS-SOY-SWINDLEGood friends stab you in the front.–Unknown
COCKATOO-TITANIUM-LIFELINE-SNUB-JACKS-CADS-ROAD-LAVENDER-GATES-DISFUNCTIONOur natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. –Joan Rivers
MANHUNT-RIOT-MASSIF-ELM TREE-SHALE-ICE CREAM-DIRT BIKE-SETO STREET-GANGLANDChange is inevitable – except from a vending machine. –Robert C. Gallagher
TENUOUS-FLAMES-MUSEUM-PINATA-SPRINKLE-TALK SHOW HOST-CHEW-MEASURE-UNPAID BILL-CHAT ET SOURISNo man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. –George Jean Nathan
SHUTDOWN-COMPLAIN-HACIENDA-BLACK WATER-POVERTY-VERMIN-TORTOISE-ROSEBUD-THUMB-KITEYouth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
–Bill Vaughan
AGONY-DRILLING-IMPLANT-BOYCOTT-NAZI-SOLID GOLD-RECLINER-FERMENT-DEL MAR-UGLITo be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. –Akhenaton
PUBLIC OPINION-WAREHOUSE-SHARK-EXIT STRATEGY-SUMMER-HASSLE-FUNNY STUFF-POT BELLY-KEY PAD-DIAL TONEYou can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way. –Will Rogers
HOPE-FAILURE-TURMOIL-DENNY’S-YOGA-LEARNING TO USE-ROAR-BORON-BEN & JERRY’S-AVENUESThe common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. –W. Somerset Maugham
FAITH-TEXT MESSAGE-CRESCENT-VICTOR-UNDER THE BED-DEALT-EPICENTER-SAPPHIRE-BOOS-POINTSAll hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. –Gordie Howe
REFORM-UNVEILED-JESTER-PUB-NO.5-TESTED-BUBBLING-HOSTAGE-FESTIVAL-COMEBACKYou must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. –James M. Barrie
EMBATTLED-PEEK-STRAIGHT UP-CLAMS-VIOLA-JOY-SWARMED-GLITCH-CASKET-WEAVERThe danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. –Erich Fromm
GLOW-JUNK FOOD-PRISON-MEDICINE-PLENTY-CRUEL-EVIL BOSS-HOSPITALITY-RUNWAY-SOUVENIRA satellite has no conscience. –Edward R. Murrow
MINOR-AGE OF REASON-BROKEN-PERIL-DISCORD-SNITCH-TOWNIE-MEMORY-SOPRANO-MISSOURIIsn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -Douglas Adams
WINGS-STUNNER-WHALE-GLOOMY-BOBBLES-BRIDGE-CLIFF-RAZOR WIRE-OBESITY-EGYPTIf I can be of any help, you’re in worse trouble than I thought. –Unknown
PIPES-ICE AGE-MAJOR-PUNK-TIME-ALIENS-GETAWAY-BATS-I TOLD YOU SO-LIVIDLet us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry. –Mark Twain
GODFORSAKEN-PHOTOSHOP-TUG OF WAR-OCHRE-AKBAR-CHANGE-TAPS-FORLORN-EDDY-HUMANOIDA conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. –Woodrow Wilson
AUG 21, 2009
BEESWAX-TRAVELING-FARMER-TALLY-PRINCE-COMEBACK-SWEETNESS-GUNNING-RECLUSE-TEMPEST
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. –Gilbert K. Chesterton
AUG 20, 2009
POLICY-KNOCK KNOCK-TUMBLE-INFLUENZA-FLOSS-NURSING HOME-MARVEL-MOSES-REFORM-SNEAK
Peace is liberty in tranquillity. –Marcus Tullius Cicero
AUG 19,2009
SCRAP HEAP-RELEASE-PORTRAIT-WINE-DAMAGES-PIECE OF CAKE-PIZAZZ-PUCK-HOWDY-JUMP IN
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. –George Bernard Shaw
The String-of-10 Contest is now closed! Flash Fiction Chronicles received 50 (50!!) entries. Thanks to all of you who entered!
AUG 18, 2009
MENTAL CASE-CALCULATOR-ACQUITTED-SLAM-AFTERMATH-FRAME-VICE-URBAN-CROSSOVER-PROMISE
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg. –Samuel Butler
LAST DAY TO SUBMIT TO THE STRING-OF-10 CONTEST!
Don’t forget the String-of-10 Contest is extended until Tuesday, August 18, Midnight, PDT! 250-words or less using the contest prompt. Click here for guides: GUIDELINES
AUG 17, 2009
SECRET SAUCE-CYBERSPACE-ALLIANCE-CASUALTIES-CORN DOGS-STUNNER-DENIM-ABERDEEN-WASTE DUMP-PANDORA
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. –Bryan Ferry
Don’t forget the String-of-10 Contest is extended until Tuesday, August 18, Midnight, PDT! 250-words or less using the contest prompt. Click here for guides: GUIDELINES
Aug 8 through Aug 16, 2008 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 12 am PDT
String of 10 Contest Prompt (for guidelines and how to enter, click here)
BLOW BACK-STORM-JAUNDICE-STEAM-TATTOO-SENSE OF FUN-CANTALOUPE-STREAKED-UMBER-DRIPPING SWEAT
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? –Tillie Olsen
AUG 7, 2009
IRON AGE-RUMBLE-EDGE-HUMANOID-HEALING-LAVISH-99-HAUNT-HELP WANTED-SUNDAY
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. –Jean Cocteau
AUG 6, 2009
GYPSIES-HOMEGROWN-LAVASH-MONSTER-TWISTER-ADRIFT-SWINE-HAPPY FACE-CUSTODY-BLAZE
He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. –Mae West
AUG 5, 2009
FRAUGHT-SHORT SHRIFT-LIGHTHOUSE-HIBACHI-PLANE TICKET-GRAVE STONE-COMMIT-LAST FRIEND-CERULEAN-JORDAN
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. –Gilbert K. Chesterton
AUG 4, 2009
MUFTI-STRUGGLE-SLASHED-CHILI BOWL-BRIDEGROOM-CRANKY-PYTHON-SOLAR-GIZMO-SNO CONE
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? –Scott Adams
AUG 3, 2009
CAMELLIA-NAVY-WICKER-EPIC-FLY PAPER-SHOCK-BARBADOS-PENCIL-MOTEL 6-TORCHIERE
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. –Jane Austen
AUG 2, 2009
LOYALTY-CYNIC-BEATLES-RADIATION-HUMPDAY-FIDDLER-SLIDE SHOW-TRY HARDER-PRESSED FLOWER-HAUNTING
Some stories are true that never happened. –Elie Wiesel
AUG 1, 2009
ROMEO-MAD COW-ACID BUILD UP-RISKY-FIZZLE-BUMS-LUST-JAZZ BAND-ENOUGH-OVERSEAS
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. –Gilbert Keith Chesterton
JULY 31, 2009
FRUSTRATION-HUMILIATION-DESPERATION-IRRITATION-IMAGINATION-DAMNATION-CASTRATION-ELEVATION-DELIBERATION-CARNATION
If you don`t get what you want, it`s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. –Rudyard Kipling
JULY 30, 2009
COURT-SMALL-ROCK-WASTE-BREW-LASH-FOG-SLAIN-HOOK-SLAP
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. –Woody Allen
JULY 29, 2009
VIBRANT-TENANTS-SAUSAGE-LATIN LOVER-GEOPHYSICISTS-REELING-CLUNKERS-BACKLOG-MISHAP-CORINTHIAN LEATHER
A joke is a very serious thing. –Winston Churchill
JULY 28, 2009
WOLF PACK-SNEAKER-VEST-PLUNGE-CHELSEA-MATERNITY-INFLUENZA-SCARECROW-SPARKLE-BEESWAX
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. –
Margaret Thatcher
JULY 27, 2009
HIATUS-ROGUE WAVE-MIX UP-EVISCERATE-GATOR-MEDIEVAL-FAKE-SQUATTERS-TANGERINE-BOXITE
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill
JULY 26, 2009
WICKED-UGLY-SHRINK-HIATUS-INVISIBLE-ATLANTA-SELF STARTER-WEAKNESS-SPIDERS-TRUCK STOP
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. –Groucho Marx
JULY 25, 2009
TWILIGHT-TAMP DOWN-WEDGE-UNSETTLING-ANCIENT-TEACHER MAN-WILDEBEEST-PLEASURE-GLAUCOUS-JOLT
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. –Leo Buscaglia
JULY 24, 2009
FANBOYS-SWEEP-GRAB BAG-TRIPLE A-AUCTION-PIRATE-OVERSIGHT-MAYHEM-SAPPHIRE-INDULGE
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. –Oscar Wilde
JULY 23, 2009
BOBBLEHEAD-AUCTION-BETSY ROSS-NERD-PURPLE PROSE-OFF SHORE-DROWNING-GOSSIP-SPRUCE-HYENA
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. –E. M. Forster
JULY 22, 2009
APOLLO-COTTAGE CHEESE-34 HOUR ORATION-STILL-CREPT-HEAD SOUTH-SUSPECT-TRIBAL-FRAY-NEO NAZI
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. –Samuel Butler
JULY 21, 2009
PLACEBO-NECK ACHE-WATTS TOWERS-DORADO-MIDWAY-REASSURING-LANKY-BELLS-SOUL MATE-PUCE
People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. –Linda Ellerbee
JULY 20, 2009
POT SHOTS-ASHES-RUTHLESS-DIVA-MYSTERY-SNAKE-MIXED SIGNALS-ESCAPE-360-SERMON
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. –Malcolm Forbes
JULY 19, 2009
PLETHORA-DEAD FORUM-LIGHTNING BOLT-LADYLIKE-PLASTIC SURGERY-BRISTOL STOMP-SHARKEY’S-FILTER-SHOULDA-BURNT SIENNA
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. –Kahlil Gibran
JULY 18, 2009
TROJAN-ASSASSIN-22 CARAT GOLD-WHISKERS-PROFESSOR-LAB TECH-SWING DANCE-MISSING-RICE KRISPIES-BLOOD
The idea is to die young as late as possible. –Ashley Montagu
JULY 17, 2009
CAPSIZE-GOODER-CELLAR-FAULT LINE-STRONG MAN-GNOME-MONASTERY-FUGUE-CHINATOWN-DISENGAGE
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. –Eleanor Roosevelt
JULY 16, 2009
ABORTION-LILY-DRAGON-BOHEMIAN-A MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS-KBG-INVENTOR-MELTDOWN-PUBLIC OFFERING-BLEACH BLOND
Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing. –Irene Peter
JULY 15, 2009
PALATE-BOOB JOB-A LA CARTE-PRIVATE PARTY-STONE HOUSE-WRESTLING-ROMEO-HI RES-PREPPIE-5 CENTS A DANCE
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.–Pablo Picasso
JULY 14, 2009
MADAME GUILLOTINE-FOREIGN AFFAIRS-ARDUOUS JOURNEY-FORGOTTEN-SUSPICIOUS LOOKS-CELLAR-SMOKY-GETAWAY-WINE COUNTRY-CASKET
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. –Charles Dickens
JULY 13, 2009
VILLAGE-CONSPICUOUS-SUBPOENA-LOADED-GUITAR-TRACKING-SLIDING DOORS-HAREM PANTS-SUCCULENTS-POLKA
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
–Michael Korda
JULY 12, 2009
GOSPEL-REFRIGERATOR-APPOINTMENT-BAT-SQUID-PLASTIC POOL-LANDMARK-REVIVAL-CLASSIFIED-MORNING AFTER PILL
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. –Lauryn Hill
JULY 11, 2009
IMPOSTER-BLUNDER-BRONX CHEER-CRISIS-PANDORA-VASILY-BLOOD-CEMETERY-DAIRY QUEEN-PAYNE’S GRAY
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. –Gertrude Stein
JULY 10, 2009
TITANIUM-EAT HER GUN-KEY-REFUGEE-IMPASSE-FIFTH AVENUE-iPHONE-ORGANIST-LILY OF THE VALLEY-SALSA-VERDE
Anger is a short madness. –Horace
JULY 9, 2009
VICTOR-MAVERICK-FRENZY-VENETIAN BLINDS-FIST FACED-COSMETIC-EDIBLE-IRON ORE-SKI LODGE-DELICATE
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. –Bette Midler
JULY 8, 2009
BEASTS OF BURDEN-HARBINGER-AVALON-POTATO FLOWERS-VICTOR-SHORT STRAW-TOE RING-JAMS-UNVEIL-COOLER
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. –Saint Augustine
JULY 7, 2009
CONFLICTED-BLACK CHERRY-WRAPAROUND SUNGLASSES-CARRION-PATRON-KNIFE-DRUID-ENCRUSTED-LOATHING-CLINCH
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. –Russell Baker
JULY 6, 2009
BLIND SPOT-SALMON-EXPLOSIVE-CONDEMN-SANCTITY-NETHERWORLD-LAMENT-DIG DEEP-MOCKERY-PEWTER
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. –Ellen Glasgow
JULY 5, 2009
GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM-COLLABORATOR-HITLER’S CHILDREN-SEA BREEZE-MALICE-WAR GAMES-REVEAL-STRENGTH-EMERALD-WOODED TRACK
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. –Francis Bacon
JULY 3, 2009
KATHARINE-HELL HOLE-SUNRISE-KINGDOM-MANIFESTATION-RADIO HEAD-SUPERFLUOUS-HANGOVER-ENCAPSULATE-MONARCH
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson
JULY 2, 2009
HATCHED-FAR FLUNG-CONCH SHELL-FESTIVAS FOR THE REST OF US-ETERNAL-PACIFIC ROSE-SWAMPY-TORTURE-FEATHERY-MERCURY
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. –Oscar Wilde
JULY 1, 2009
GENTIAN VIOLET-CORN FIELDS-UNDERPINNING-MAGNIFICENT-HARNESS-GUSH-PENNY PINCHER-BON BONS-TONTO-VELVEETA
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. –Epicurus
JUNE 30, 2009
BAGELS-POLKA-STOCKHOLDER-ANGEL-SEASONS-DRESS CODE-ATM-PARROT FEVER-WORRY-CUSTODIANS
Faith is a passionate intuition.–William Wordsworth
JUNE 29. 2009
ASSAULT-GIRLFRIEND-VHS TAPES-CIRCUS-PORCELAIN-DECIMATE-FORGOTTEN-RECKLESS-ALLEGRO-AFTERTASTE
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. –Elbert Hubbard
JUNE 28,2009
WILLING-DELIVERANCE-PITTSBURGH-MUGGY-CONVEYER BELT-GENIUS-FLUTTER-DRILLS-SHRIMP-SLASHES
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. –Plutarch
JUNE 27, 2009
CROSSHAIRS-GYPSY-MOTHBALLS-SIGNIFY-HOT TUB-RIBALD-FISHING-IMPERFECT-PRISM-RECKLESS
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. –Francis Bacon
JUNE 26, 2009
SAY GOODBYE-BULL-WANING-WITCHY WOMAN-CROSSHATCH-SHADOW BLUE-RELAPSE-BOOZE-SURPRISE-SALIVA
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. –Hannah More
JUNE 25, 2009
UNIONS-SINGLE MALT-CAMERA BUG-CAMEO-REPELS-LEVIATHON-RHAPSODY-OLD BRIDGE-NECTARINE-DEFLECT
A true friend is one soul in two bodies. –Aristotle
JUNE 24, 2009
VANESSA-CAROB-DEEP IN THE BONES-PORTALS-SMOKING IN THE BOYS ROOM-VULNERABLE-YO MAMA-PRESENCE-STENCH OF DEAD MAGNOLIAS-GLOWING SKIN
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? –Alfred Lord Tennyson
JUNE 23, 2009
TRAIN WRECK-KEYHOLE-TURPENTINE-LIVING IN SIN-ZOOLOGY-IRON HORSE-SHALLOWS-GARDEN-INVISIBLE-FABRIC SOFTENER
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. –George Weinberg
JUNE 22, 2009
GLUTTON-2012-LAMBLIKE-PECTORALS-STAIN REMOVER-KENT STATE-CYCHLIDS-MANUMIT-IRRESOLUTE-DESCANT
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. –John Dryden
JUNE 21, 2009
SHOOTER-BEESWAX-BOSTON-CUFF LINKS-ENVY-SMEAR-CRUSTLESS BREAD-UNDERWHELM-DYNASTY-FREAKISH
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. –Vita Sackville-West
JUNE 20, 2009
NO SHIT SHERLOCK-DEERSTALKER-DENTURES-TERMITES-ENGAGEMENT-REMINISCENT-GHEE-FARAWAY-FOREST-HEMATITE
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. –V. S. Naipaul
JUNE 19, 2009
DESTINY-TURKEY-MORTUARY-BEACHED-GOOD WILL-PAINTER-BRONZY-SWELLING-KEEP MUM-LURID
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.–Benjamin Disraeli
JUNE 18, 2009
BOMBING-PANEL OF CLERICS-BOLSTER-TEEN PREGNANCY-EAVESDROP-MEGAPAIN-CHARGED-INDIGO-FAKE MURDER-SADDLED
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. –Benjamin Franklin
JUNE 17, 2009
LUST-BOGART-CALENDULA-EBON-AFRAID-GALLERY-PICKLE-MOLLIFY-PRESTO-QUIBBLE
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. –Miguel de Cervantes
JUNE 16,2009
TEA TIME-CHINTZY-SIAMESE TWINS-COURTYARD-ALGEBRA-SLICES-GREED-CLENCH-WALTZ-HUNT CLUB
War, war is still the cry,— war even to the knife! –Lord Byron
JUNE 15, 2009
STORM THE GATES-EXTREME UNCTION-HOMESPUN-CRYONICS-DECREPIT-BETRAYAL-ROSE ARBOR-DENIZEN-MUSTARD GAS-MOONSTONE
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend s success without envy . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade. –Aeschylus
JUNE 14, 2009
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. –George Bernard Shaw
JUNE 13, 2009
ZOMBIE MOM-HARNESS-ETUDE-HORNED EEL-REVERTS-LAKE TITICACA-DUNGAREE-CHAMBERLAIN-NAILS-GANGRENE
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. –Alexander Pope
JUNE 12, 2009
HAPPENSTANCE-TIDY UP-FRATERNITY-WARBLER-POSTAL CLERK-OOZE-BLUNT-NESTOR-BACKWATER-YELLOW
Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose. –Robert Browning
JUNE 11, 2009
JUICED-RHINOCEROS-ENVY PERSONIFIED-CITADEL-SATED-POMELO-MARITAL BREAKDOWN-CRITICIZE-CARESS-SALVATION
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
JUNE 10, 2009
COFFIN-CONUMDRUM-FEAR-SKIN BARING-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR-LIQUIFIED FLESH-ENGAGING-CRUTCH-LANDSCAPE-BURNT
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. –Beilby Porteus
JUNE 9, 2009
JUSTIFY-BOWIE KNIFE-RAFFIA-SPIRAL-CONJECTURE-PROBE-BOWER-WREATH OF ELDER-COPPER-SLIVERS
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? — Rowland Hill
JUNE 8, 2009
RELINQUISH-DEVIL MAY CARE-DIRGE-GRAVEYARD-HAWTHORN-OWLET-DEVIOUS-MINERS-DUSTY-GARBAGE
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. –Karl Marx
JUNE 7, 2009
WHITE HART-GRACE-AGAVE-CENTURY-PUSH UPS-RELINQUISH-HUMILIATE-FORT WAYNE-AVARICIOUS-STRIPPED
We are young
And we are friends of time. –Edwin Arlington Robinson
JUNE 6, 2009
MUSCLE MEN-PLAYA DEL REY-ELECTRICITY-HUMBLE PIE-STROKE-FORENSIC-ILLEGAL-FAIRY DUST-FIDDLER-CHARTREUSE
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. — W C Fields
JUNE 5, 2009
BUMMED-MESMERIZE-PARABOLIC-EXPIATE-REDEMPTION-POMEGRANATES-PEARLY GRAY-ASPHALT-CULT-ORDERED
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work ! — Thomas Alva Edison
JUNE 4, 2009
PICKLE DISH-LANDSCAPE-SAGUARO-FLAME-OASIS-BLEAK-FIELD MOUSE-BARREN-SPRUCE TREES-GRAY
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. –Adage
JUNE 3, 2009
POST MORTEM-SLEEK-ARRANGEMENT-MEMORY-LITTLE LEAGUE-ELEVEN-SILENCE-LICHEN-OLIVE TREES-RETREAT
You are constantly invited to be what you are.–Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted from Brenda Miller’s “Blessing of the Animals” in the 2009 Pushcart Prize anthology.
JUNE 2, 2009
DRAMA QUEEN-FALCON-SEPIA-FAUX PAS-MEANDER-GLOSS-KNEE RAFTER-DOTE-FUSS-PLUMMET
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. –Michael Crichton
JUNE 1, 2009
YOKO ONO-1001-CLASP-ACOLYTE-JOHN HENRY-ADROIT-TOPAZ-FIDELITY-RESORT-CRESTED BUTTE
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. –Mother Teresa
MAY 31, 2009
PIE CHART-MASSACHUSETTS-HOKUM POKUM-FLEECE SWEATS-SUBTROPIC-BOOKMARK-RACE-WELDING-HEARTBROKEN-VERTIGRISTact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. –Abraham Lincoln
MAY 30, 2009
VITAMIN-FLIPPED-FOUR CORNERS-JUSTIFY-SALUBRIOUS-CHAR BROILED-PUMPKIN-ATELIER-TUMBLE-RAT’S ASS
‘Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. –W. C. Fields
MAY 29, 2009
FINELY TUNED MACHINE-WITNESS-LAVENDAR BUSHES-BROKEN SHOE-BLUSTER-GOAT CHEESE-VEGAN-FERRET-EMO-HOT CROSS BUNS
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
MAY 28, 2009
MUSTY-PINAFORE-TEASPOONFUL-BLUDGEON-CREEP-EXULT-PAINSTAKING-WIMPLE-TROIKA-VIRIDIAN
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. –Confucius
MAY 27, 2009
PEPSI-DYSPEPSIA-FLUCTUATE-ETON JACKET-ICE BOAT-BLUE GOOSE-STARKVILLE-LUNCHEONETTE-PONDER-REVERBERANT
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. –Salvador Dali
MAY 26, 2009
DUTCH OVEN-CHARCOAL-OVERTURN-DESIST-EUNUCH-NO FRONTING-DOVE-SAPPHIRE-HOIST-PHOBOPHOBIA
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. –Frank Lloyd Wright
MAY 25, 2009
ROSE ARBOR-MEMORY-RISING WATER-CRIMSON SCARF-DROPLET-SHUDDER-UNSHEATH-TORTOISE-DITCH-CONCRETE
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. –Mickey Mouse
MAY 24, 2009
TREK-RHINE LEGEND-TEARING APART-LILAC BUSH-GRASP-SPINELESS-REGGAE-WAX-PANDER-PADDY WAGON
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. –H. G. Wells
MAY 23, 2000
MAYBELLINE-ARKANSAS-CELLOPHANE-PLASTIC SURGERY-JOINED AT THE HIP-MOCK-DISSOLVE-VEILED-UNDERTAKING-REFLECT
The gods too are fond of a joke. –Aristotle
MAY 22, 2009
S.O.S.-NEAT FREAK-JUPITER-ASWAN DAM-FLESHY-KIDNAP-NOISELESS-BORROW-STONE-GROGGY
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. –Woody Allen
MAY 21, 2009
GUILT-HARD CANDY-PURPLE HORIZON-FLAGRANT-YANKEE POT ROAST-GLOSSY-EXIST-CATERWAUL-PROFANE-HOUND
After I’m dead, I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. –Marcus Porcius Cato
MAY 20, 2009
MUSH-VESTAL VIRGINS-REGALE-WEDNESDAY-WOODEN NICKEL-SINISTER-CUDGEL-OVOID-MALODOROUS-LAMBENT
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. –Alfred Lord Tennyson
MAY 19, 2009
BLUE RAIN-CHILDREN-OZONE-DRAFT-SUSTAIN-MUSKMELON-LUCIFER-DRAIN-JUGGLE-LIKE GREASED LIGHTNING
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. –Otto von Bismarck
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[...] 3, 2009 at 12:12 am (Uncategorized) The flash fiction prompt for today was “LOYALTY-CYNIC-BEATLES-RADIATION-HUMPDAY-FIDDLER-SLIDE SHOW-TRY HARDER-PRESSED [...]
[...] the Flash Fiction Blog I wandered over to 10 Flash, and discovered that there are online magazines that will publish [...]
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[...] serious headache since I woke up. I hate what I’ve created, but I’m posting it anyway.prompt: FRAUGHT-SHORT SHRIFT-LIGHTHOUSE-HIBACHI-PLANE TICKET-GRAVE STONE-COMMIT-LAST [...]
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[...] Urban Hunter From the prompt “MENTAL CASE-CALCULATOR-ACQUITTED-SLAM-AFTERMATH-FRAME-VICE-URBAN-CROSSOVER-PROMISE” [...]
[...] Error 96 From the prompt “SECRET SAUCE-CYBERSPACE-ALLIANCE-CASUALTIES-CORN DOGS-STUNNER-DENIM-ABERDEEN-WASTE [...]
[...] Flying Machine From the prompt “SCRAP HEAP-RELEASE-PORTRAIT-WINE-DAMAGES-PIECE OF CAKE-PIZAZZ-PUCK-HOWDY-JUMP IN” [...]
[...] Moses Reborn From the prompt “POLICY-KNOCK KNOCK-TUMBLE-INFLUENZA-FLOSS-NURSING HOME-MARVEL-MOSES-REFORM-SNEAK” [...]
[...] This small tale of woe comes from the prompt“BEESWAX-TRAVELING-FARMER-TALLY-PRINCE-COMEBACK-SWEETNESS-GUNNING-RECLUSE-TEMPEST” [...]
[...] the prompt “GODFORSAKEN-PHOTOSHOP-TUG OF WAR-OCHRE-AKBAR-CHANGE-TAPS-FORLORN-EDDY-HUMANOID” comes [...]
[...] in the world than mine on that subject. So logically it shouldn’t have been so easy to take the daily writing prompts from The Prompt Master (endless karmic delights for she who spreads word-crumbs for [...]
[...] first time (I think) I accidentally wrote it in 2nd person … but it seems to work.) From the prompt: “PIPES-ICE AGE-MAJOR-PUNK-TIME-ALIENS-GETAWAY-BATS-I TOLD YOU SO-LIVID” comes this [...]
[...] time to craft two submissions for the upcoming Hint Fiction Anthology, however. Anyway. From the prompt “WINGS-STUNNER-WHALE-GLOOMY-BOBBLES-BRIDGE-CLIFF-RAZOR WIRE-OBESITY-EGYPT” comes this [...]
[...] Are Alive. I will explain with an anecdote. Last night, I worked on a practice piece (from the prompt for the 25th.) I had shortened my brainstorm and actual writing time significantly, since I did [...]
[...] in 500 – 1000 words. I consulted the Great Oracle (Google) and discovered that there were prompts published every day for just such exercises – I wouldn’t have to go into this new territory [...]
[...] I forgot to add that this story was inspired from today’s prompt on the flash fiction blog. AND I used all 10 of them Comments [...]
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[...] not bad, really, just … out of my comfort zone. For the record, I used all 10 of the 8/30 prompts in writing [...]
[...] before you get to the story. First, I did something different with this one. In addition to the writing prompts (from 9-2-09, and again, I used all 10 of them) I also used the Writing Challenge Generator [...]
[...] writing goals for the upcoming week. 1.) I will write one flash piece each day based on the word-crumbs from the Prompt Mistress – in addition to any other writing I may do, in order to keep my creative engine oiled and [...]
[...] in addition to the prompt “GOODNESS-PLUTO-WILLOW TREE-MURKY-ENVELOPE-RESEMBLANCE-FRAGMENT-CRIME [...]
[...] list I made on (Must-Do) Monday declared my intention to write a piece of flash fiction using the word-crumbs for writer pigeons every day. So far I’m 2 for 2, although the piece I squeaked out last night is little more [...]
[...] I will write two flash pieces this week based on the word-crumbs for writer pigeons. [...]
[...] have also managed (this morning) to write one of my proposed two flash fiction pieces from the word-crumbs for writer-pigeons … but I have a feeling this one is going to grow into a short story as [...]
[...] and I finished the revision without difficulty. I had an idea yesterday morning. I looked at the word-crumbs for writer-pigeons, and did my vocabulary thing. (I list the prompts, then give either a definition or a synonym or [...]
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[...] or at least outline it – oddly enough, CHECK. I was going back over some of my old saved prompts, and in a dazed sort of hour, I completely outlined an entire fantasy novel (geared for teens) [...]
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[...] process, writing. trackback I’ve gotten out of the habit of writing new pieces from the word-crumbs for writer-pigeons, and a few days ago I decided to give it another go – get back in the habit, as it were. As I [...]
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