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She Couldn’t Write Like Shakespeare

Not too many can

Today’s random word is Prosy.

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Juliet dreamt of becoming a Pulitzer Prize winner for longer than she could remember, but critics slashed her vision when they read her work.

She couldn’t imagine why. Perhaps it’s because she wrote unsolved mysteries and crimes of passion without love.

She used words that made even sailors scowl, but if J. D. Salinger could write a novel full of profanity, wasn’t she following in his footsteps? Maybe she was cursed, more than her curse words.

Accused of writing prosy language, Juliet burned her musings and left her prose to the pros.

That’s when her creativity ignited, and inspiration struck.

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