prompt- desperate gamble There are calculated risks where, for good or ill, you can recover and go on. But a gamble is a binary proposition. It works, or you lose all. Oh, let’s not go there. In our civilized life, a gamble is figurative, really, not the end of the world if you lose. But […]
Flower Child Angrily Told to Go Take a Hike
seanessay.com from Free Fall Friday No, I’m not nostalgic for the sixties. OK, for some of the fashions, maybe, but mostly it was a big hoax. Someone came across a girl by some park bleachers, perfectly looking like a hippie in a buckskin jacket, headband and so forth, a girl with a clear complexion. Turned […]
Traveling to Meet the People
seanessay.com Down the rabbit hole, writing at my Free Fall Friday group. Prompt- Don’t be that person. Some people use cocaine, “recreationally,” yet never gaze into the looking glass and say, “I’m a criminal.” Some men, while in debt to other people, never look in the mirror to say “I”m a debtor,” instead continuing to […]
Why We Hate Canadians
seanessay.com (under 900 words) Falling down the rabbit hole. prompt- Don’t eat the snow Have you ever been to Missoula? Right on the Great Plains? Right next to Canada? Let me tell you—here in Missoula? We hate Canadians. Why? It’s too far to go to hunt or ski, but not too far for them to […]
A Writer’s Covid Perspective
seanessay.com (1,000 words) Falling down the rabbit hole, writing on Free Fall Friday. – Here’s something cheerful to me—because it’s worse than Covid… prompt- We sat around and talked about symptoms. We who survived the plagues had lots of little symptoms, but—We weren’t dead! Life puts things into perspective. Help yourself to clothes and cars […]
Hoverboards in New London
seanessay.com Leaping from a prompt, falling down, down a rabbit hole, while writing to see what happens… at Free Fall Fridays. prompt- Thinking box “You are thinking,” he said ponderously “inside the box.” We were in the boardroom and BJ Edison, the CEO, was addressing all his senior and middle executives. I traced a box […]