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This is a piece with a fantastically burnt tongue. I've fallen ass over teakettle in love with your writing and I'm happy for Edith having incepted this exercise, you for having enjoined it, and for myself as I was able to donate the words of spellwork through prompt as lodestar and muse that brought forth this beautiful piece of murderous hollerprose. Thank you for the opportunity to help in THE WORK, of which there is only and nothing else.

Pick any story on my stack that doesn't say WIP, there is a 99% chance of it too growing originally from three prompted words from Edith.

What I'm getting about in the most circuitous way possible is bravo, and I can't wait for the next one, both short you write from prompt, and meeting of the prompting.

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Jeez louise thank you. “Murderous hollerprose” now lives on a little cleft, notched out in the brown gristle of my heart.

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“Born in a holler, raised in a cave, fuckin’ and fightin’ is all that I crave” - Diogenes

Seriously though, murderous hollerprose just SOUNDED right, you gotta agree.

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I just designed the tshirt and ballcap. Thank you again.

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Good stuff!

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oh my Jon T

say less

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cant beleive I didn't like this first time... surely i must have commented or did i go straight to restack because it was so good? did I say it was good?

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I thought you did too. Thank you

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Wow, your incredible words have left me lost for them. Stunning.

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Reminds me more of the Droog patois from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, with maybe a little of Portis's TRUE GRIT eloquence thrown in. I also liked the rhyming.

Have you seen this? Mightily entertaining.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402

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Thank you and wow i love this book link. I’ve never seen this before.

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All part of the service.

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Yo. Grubbbrainz be thinkin eggsackly like this before during and after da deed izz dunn!

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aha- ya caught me by pegs in the divots—there's no gettin by thee Vee

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No thrillin in the Killin any more. Love it. Your writing is in one way, effortless but in the other, so cleverly put together with the rhyming and the way it flows.

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ooh that's a juicy nice thing to say, i'm blushin'

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absolute belta as we say here. I loved the rhyming couples was sorta hoping for more of those but such a vivid blast and hilarious word play. its like a font of genius gets tapped. if you prompt them... they will come. did you actually use abduct and parry, or did they just exist in the imagary and the telling? reading again...

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If you like rhythmic and rhyming prose, its all over my writing. I can help myself. And thank you.

As far as the prompting goes, i quickly settled on Abduction being the general theme , then just kept writing till Parry and Bisect found me. Took a minute but I think it worked.

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it was joyfully casually violent. a guilty pleasure. thanks!

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Fantastic, man. The word play is exquisite.

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Wow thank you. It was fun to exorcise.

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I read it three times, once with the voice over. I love the audio with the writing has a feeling to it. Looking forward to more of these more organized than last time, but we made it work. Visually, this took me into a film, as per usual your writing does, and it's always good. The film industry could learn to write better scripts if they read your work.

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Thanks Edith. Catching the ghost train with these exercises always feels cinematic to me too. Its fun to just let it ride ya know?

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I love them so much, if I had a press I would publish it as an anthology. So many films people could watch. I've been taken through so many different dimensions. I haven't left the ghost train yet.

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just the horror movie I needed to read this morning, thank you

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Anytime rabbit. Happy to do my part in the just in-time horror economy

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Love it! He’s so merry about it all and I love his patter. I thought he might have picked a bad one there, but he pulled it off. He’s like a scurrying little murder squirrel!

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Murder squirrel!

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Gristly, gnarly and grotesque, and lots of other things beginning with G.

U 1 nasty man, I keep my kids away from U.

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Perhaps Gastronomic?

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Graspinomically gross and grucky

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