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Ideastream week 22

Red Mist

It’s clouding my viewpoint

Photo by NOAA on Unsplash

Hey beautiful people,

One thing is for sure, we none of us know what’s up ahead.

Who knew that the first part of 2020 would be spent in isolation and lockdown, fighting an illness called COVID-19?

None of us.

Now, wearing masks and staying at home is our way of life. The new normal.

I heard from my youngest teenager’s school today that they are unlikely to reopen for her year group until September; I wanted to cry.

But then I remembered the old adage about there being an opportunity in every challenge.

I’m still looking. I’ll let you know if I find it.

Writer’s Prompts

Poetry Salvage

Use these ten words to write a poem. Or prose if you prefer.

  • Unexpected
  • Challenge
  • Trying
  • Normal
  • Home
  • School
  • Being
  • Isolated
  • Young
  • 2020

The best of last’s week’s poetry salvage

I love Marilyn Flower — I can always rely on her to step up to the plate!

Haiku Challenge

Write 5 related haikus about a time you wanted to change your life.

Limerick Corner

Limerick Starter

There was a spin doctor named Dominick

Who was really great at being slick…

Best of last week’s limericks

Warning: Explicit language

Finish the story

Take this introduction and run with it…

It’s the weirdest thing. My online friend has vanished. I searched everywhere. He’s simply disappeared from all his social media accounts...

Loving last week’s FTS from Melissa R. Mendelson

100 * 250 * 500 * 1K

Write 100 words about connecting with someone you haven’t seen in awhile

Write 250 words about your first sexual experience.

Write 500 words on what you’ve done — or plan to do — to make this planet a better place,

Write 1000 words, fiction or non-fiction, about surmounting your greatest fear.

Recommend Reads

None of the above moving you? Try one of these stories below…

by Kira Dawn

by Alex Boast

by Christine Graves

by Kristin DeMarr

by Caroline de Braganza

by Rasheed Hooda

by Amy Cubbon

by Kayo Zaduban

by Karolína Fialka

by Archie Holloway

The Bad Influence and IdeaStream

If you’re looking for a home for your writing with people that like to read & support other writers then we’d be honored to have you no matter your skill level, comment in responses to be added as a writer.

Here are our topics:

©Marla Bishop 2020

Marla Bishop is an editor for The Bad Influence, as well as for GetFitGang and The Narrative, and publisher of Lilith. A writer and relationship coach, she lives in London UK and is working on her first novel. You can support her here.

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