I recently listened to Mignon Fogarty’s podcast “Grammar Girl.” That episode was about ‘Feghoots.’ I’d never heard of them, but she explained that they are short, mostly humorous stories that build to a pun at the end. It’s like a bad dad joke with a pun based on a familiar phrase or title. This week I’m giving ‘feghoots’ a try.…
Tag: writing
Threshold
A/N: On the writing platform TheProse, creator THATGRLZOE7 wrote a story called ‘CLARA.’ It’s about a woman who discovered an out-of-place iron gate that leads to a sentient-feeling garden, showing streams of her past and a possible future. A mysterious woman explains what the place is, but no more. I commented that I loved the story but wanted to know…
Stylish
Yesterday I missed my writers’ meet-up due to 25-plus inches of snow, which I had to dig myself out of. Here is the story I wrote with the theme: Style. The question is… what makes the man? Read and judge for yourself. When Hudson dressed to the nines, he created visual elegance. In a city of monotonous suits, he was…
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