A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in Sammi’s Comment Section.
IT BEGAN IN 1971
(IN 71 WORDS)
“You’re not in love.” My mother fumed. “You’re in lust. Only eighteen. Too young to know your own mind.”
Nonetheless, I dug in my heels. My dad walked me down the aisle, a sorrowful expression on his face and tears in his eyes. “You can always come home if it doesn’t work out.”
“I give them six months,” said my aunt.
A paradox in progress.
Forty-nine years later, we’re still married.


