Thanks Jane–you as well!

Thank you Karin! I appreciate the feedback. Enjoy the holiday season!

I love the narrative you created here about adaptation. You have a lot of powerful language throughout the poem, which made the last line feel a little too on the nose for me–you’ve shown her adapting really well earlier in the poem. Thank you for sharing and I hope you enjoy the holiday season!

I’m not retirement age yet, but I imagine it is a huge change! I think your poem captures that life shift well. Thank you for sharing and I hope you have a Happy New Year!

Beautiful–I love the hidden message in the end lines and the juxtaposition of that message and the content of your poem. Elegantly done! Enjoy your holiday season!

Thank you Christian! I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

I love this thought exercise about the dinosaurs! I also admire your craftsmanship with the acrostic and your use of rhyme. Thank you for sharing and enjoy your holiday season!

Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to read this. Enjoy your holiday season!

Thank you! I hope you enjoy your holiday season!

Thank you so much Seyi! I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season!

Thank you! I hope you do as well!

You definitely succeeded in having a twist ending–I didn’t see that coming at all! The dialogue and the tension in the family was realistic and you had some great details, especially at the end. Thank you for sharing!

This story was a lot of fun and a great take on the prompt. I loved the dialogue and relationship you developed between the two characters. I’d love to read more about them if you have more stories to share! Nicely done.

What a fun take on this prompt! I loved your use of humor and spicy language in this, and how you bring the normal office banality to demons/reapers. Thank you for sharing this!

What an action sequence! Your pacing is perfect in this piece, and you use language so powerfully. I especially loved these lines: “Their thoughts made my teeth vibrate and in short order, I could make out their pleas. Faces that looked like mine or my family’s moaned in many languages, begging for salvation from their suffering, and then q…[Read more]

Thank you!

I think JM would love this tribute Jane! I didn’t know him well myself but your emotional outpour here speaks so highly of him. Thank you for sharing this tribute!

Thank you Jane!