Getting Hype with Hinaikamalama

25-word entry (written first): How many phases of yourself have you swallowed into darkness,  consuming the light of creation reflected in luminous smiles?   A growing goddess is always hungry.   100-word entry: How many phases of yourself have you swallowed into darkness, consuming the light of creation reflected in luminous smiles? Is your mutable…

More writing prompts for 04/2021, pieces of both 25 and 100 words : )

Again, friends, Jim Harstad has suggested this month’s writing contest rules.  Here they are: First, write a piece that is either exactly 25 or exactly 100 words long. Then, if you wrote a 25-word piece, you must expand that to exactly 100 words, then publish both those pieces together on the contest site. If you…

Hapa Anatomy

25-word entry (written first): She drew a line across her wrist. Cleaved her face in two. Delineated the left breast. Continued. Chinese here, she thought. Hawaiian here. Half everywhere. 100-word entry: What are you? they asked. She was night-blooming cereus against dark lava rock. ‘I’iwi feathers and the song of myna birds. She was water…

The Modern Poet

(100 first) Sharing the world her laboring tongue the modern poet knows what she is capable of when others insult her usage of words reproach her senseless paragraphs impossible to articulate scrutinize her utter opacity of meaningful convention. Words that busily multiply fewer and fewer cues for clarity deliberately dislocating language to fit music shaping…

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