--Writing Prompts Responses:
1.
Poetic
Asides, Writer’s Digest, January 2016, decima Italiana (10 eight-syllable lines
with the rhyme scheme: ababcdedec.
The Costs of Spring
in February
Early Spring in February
Makes the tourists hum with vigor.
The locals, though, feel contrary,
Knowing what such heat can trigger—
A boiling June too soon will come
And with it, days that never end,
But blister on from dawn to dusk,
Burning faces that will not mend.
So to their doctors they will fuss
About the costs, they won’t be mum.
2.
Enter
your story, Writer’s Digest, February, 2016—the opening sentence in 25 words or
less (to visual prompt of a red VW bug in a sunset landscape).
Abandoned
As dusk approached, I hurried back to the farm, seeing the
red VW, its motor running high with no one in sight for miles.
