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A fresh goddess each month

Prompt: Beguiled by the moon

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Prompt: The silence between steps

Jan 15

Victory smells like Honey

Finally, the trumpets of the daffodils blare their notes in bright yellow, and the grass has been resurrected, all manner of green shades again. Winter…

Jan 14 • Emma Steel

Where is Wonder?

Prompt: A snowflake, melting

Jan 14

Moonlight’s Gift

Prompt: Bracken and bone

Jan 13

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The words I feared to speak

Prompt: Skeletons in the closet

Jan 12

Everyone is Talking

Everyone is busy talking, the noises rolling over each other, a riot of speech that goes nowhere, so, let me be the one. Tell me how you are? How are…

Jan 11 • Emma Steel

Break the Cycle

Prompt: This year will be different

Jan 11

The Eye of the Beholder

Prompt: Shaped by darkness

Jan 10

The Industrialized Mole

I live in the industrial world, marching through tunnels in the dark, seeing only what they tell me to see, living by gaslight. I live in the industrial…

Jan 9 • Emma Steel

Broken, but not Lost

Prompt: The wreckage I became

Jan 8

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