Tuesday, July 27, 2014 • Prompt #86 Write a poem or flash fiction piece inspired by a vintage illustration of an animal. Click here for illustrations or look for prints at a used book shop or library. Suggestions Use specific, concrete details. Capture a moment in time. As (almost) always, use sensoryContinue reading “Animal Tendencies”
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Twelve Black Shoes
“Shoes have tongues, but cannot talk.” When I was twenty-three, I bought my first pair of black leather shoes. Sleek with skinny black laces, they sat in the window of a shop that catered to dancers, rows of leotards—black, navy blue, bright red—lining its walls. Work boots and Wallabees had dominated my snowy, soggy collegeContinue reading “Twelve Black Shoes”
Ellen Orleans 