Today’s Prompt #27: Butter

Butter was something that separated me from the rest of America, made me alien in restaurants, in the school…

Today’s Writing Prompt: Lipstick

Lipstick is one of those norms for women that women themselves don’t want to look at. Think about…

Writing Prompt #25: Thread

Modern witches carry wands because the original witchy women were thought to have used their spindles to cast…

Today’s Prompt #26: Pocketbook

Some personal items and spaces are more private than others. You can open someone’s kitchen drawers…

Today’s Prompt — Orange

The way you eat an orange tells me enough about you to guess the rest. There are other foods that reveal the secret…

Daily Prompt: Shoes

Footwear is a way for women to express what I call their “inner shoe-ness,”…

Today’s Prompt: Thread

HOW THIS WORKS: I have a jar of nouns. I pick one at random and post it. If I’ve done this right, none of the prompts…

Today’s Prompt: Blue

Before all cats turn grey, the world turns blue. The last color to come to the eye in the evening, and the first in the…

Daily Prompt — Bitter

THE PLAN: Write 250–500 words on a daily prompt. You are invited to join. Post your piece in the comments.Read the work…

Daily Prompt: Mirror

She was a perfect mirror. Do not imagine an empty vessel for others to pour their ideas into. That would make her a glass…